Converting your LOTR SVCD to XVCD

I have made a guide for this.
http://home.swbell.net/dav1dh/ :o

[jupita]

Hi

I was not aware of a DVD player which is able to cope with 640x480. Can anyone comment on whether my DVD player should support this.

It does play XVCDs (Wharfedale M5) but have not tried that resolution. I would only like to add that to get widescreen surely you need to anamorphically squash the pciture and set the display aspect ratio flag.

I'm quite surprised that you get widescreen from a 640x480 movie automatically.

-Darren

[monty33]

i have tried this method but everytime I try to demultiplex it in mpeg tools TMPGEnc crashes ..any ideas why?

[jupita]

Hi

i have tried this method but everytime I try to demultiplex it in mpeg tools TMPGEnc crashes ..any ideas why?

Are you using Windows XP? If so switch to another OS and it will work fine. There is a problem with TMPGEnc (MPEG Tools) and Windows XP.

-Darren

[monty33]

Darren ..cheers mate ...i am using xp... i knew i should of kept this pc dual boot. :roll:

[sean madison]

this is not that compatible.

At one time, i made a 640x480 vcd by accident, it displayed on only 1\4th of my tv and i knew why cuz i forgot to change res in tmpgenc.

Let's change this topic, instead of xvcd, how bout SVCD-X.

How about 90 min on 1 cd and 80 min on cd2 and still keep it SVCD standard.

I have already done tests and so far my samples are as good as orginal, no lie in quality, no difference with file size of as following-
before- approx 795 mb, after- 366 mb SAME quality, this is for CD1

[vitualis]

This is another WARNING.

I've warned you before. If you start soliciting money for your bogus "SVCD-X" or "VCD-X" templates once more, you will be BANNED.

Regards.

[sean madison]

u must be tryin to start somethin

I just offer a better solution and u go off like an idiot.
You dont know how many people love this guide as it helped them out.
There was no mention about money at all as this is no place to do that.

I do not know what u r talking about

I'm not an expert at encoding and everyting...but I do know that 640x480 made this movie look the way it is supposed to...as in if you watched it in windvd/powerdvd. I tried encoding at 480x480 and it makes the movie it's own "box" withing my tv...but 640x480 makes it widescreen.

[CalvinBCN]

my pc also freezes at same point and i'm not using xp, can u make the same process doing first the sound then the image from the stream type?

[Shotglass]

Everything works fine for me until i get to step 5.
TMPGEnc claims that the M2V file i created earlier in step 2, is invalid
unsupported?! Whats up with this ? I did use ISOBuster to extract my MPEG from the .Bin file...and I'm currently using Win98SE.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
ShotGlass

[Devnull]

A lotr DVD rip?!?!?!?

Is it a Region 3 rip or something? Weirdness.

[Devnull]

I got the sample file, I gave same problem as that guy, .m2v can't be opened.

I did some testing, and found the problem. You need an MPEG2 encoder. http://www.vcdhelp.com/download/m2v_vfp-0.4.6.zip I'll update my guide.

[Devnull]

you could also use DVD2AVI, which I did... Im having problems getting it deinterlaced though

[Devnull]

for my checkbox it says "deinterlace(none)"

Do you have some special deinterlace plugin that works better or are my settings wrong?

Double click on the line with words that say Deinterlace (none) and the new deinterlace window will pop up so you can choose the deinterlace options that you want.

[Devnull]

ahh, coolness. I haven't had to deal with deinterlacing since I got my tv card recently.

[Devnull]

Just got a working version of the preview burned. Quality is somewhat disapointing. Looks blocky like DivX. Oh well, not bad considering it went from DVD-SVCD-XVCD.

Make sure you use the high quality setting in motion search comp, and you can raise the video bitrate/quality setting if you need to, if your dvd player will support it

[Devnull]

I used highest quality and bitrate of 2400. I've made a lot of VCDs and xVCDs, don't think there is much else I can do. I will be able to use 2200-2300 im guessing if I use 4 discs for this.