The best way to create a 2 CD SVCD?

[Sakoria]

Ok, I'm going to try to rip my first DVD > SVCD. What is the best way to rip a 1,5-2 hour movie that will fit on 2 discs with good quality?
Please post (/link to/) tutorial and all software.
/Thanks

[Scumbag]

OK - Here is a link...

http://go.to/vcdgalaxy

Has everything you need to get started.

jr

[ckxd69]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/calc.htm
Just put in time of movie, audio & how many cds, it will then tell u what bitrate u should (This way it should fit on 2 cds)

o & the guide from http://go.to/vcdgalaxy
you should only use it 4 PAL dvds.

Go 2 http://www.dvdripguides.com/dvdrip2a.html
4 a good rip guide, This 1 is nice & easy.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ckxd69 on 2001-08-04 05:50:02 ]</font>

[ya_jai]

With default SVCD template in TMPGenc you are able to rip only about 40 mins per CD. So you need to change some setting in TMPGenc such as;
- Lower Audio Quality to 128 kbits/s
- Lower Resolution from 480x480 to 352x480 only for NTSC (sorry I dont know about PAL)
- Lower bitrate to let say about 1800-2000
In this setting you will be able to fit around 55-60 minutes in one CD.

[SpudsteR]

He states in his "Guide" this is only for "PAL" format for NON-USA region 1 DVD's.

[jaw2957]

WHat is the number that the bit rate calculator spits at you? Is it for constant bit rate, or is it the avg for variable. Or is there even a difference in the 2?

[Vejita-sama]

There are two ways to go at this:

1) Run a bitrate calculator (look under 'Tools' link on the left). Enter the movie length, # of CDRs, audio quaility, etc. and you'll get a bitrate.
This number is only good if you encode with either CBR (Constant bitrate) or 2pass VBR (variable bitrate). For CBR just enter the number, for 2pass VBR use the number as the ave bitrate. For max=2500 (or max of standalone) for min use 0 or 900.

2) Load you movie in TMPGenc, load necessary templates (VCD, SVCD, if necessary unlock). Choose encoding method and enter bitrate info.

3) You could make a one big MPEG and then cut, but this is a pain. Instead click on 'settings' and then click on the 'advance' tab.
Double click on source range. A preview window will come up. There's a frame#/time stamp counter in the top left. Just move the pointer to the midddle of the film (for 2 dics, 1/3 for 3, etc). Select the start and stop frames, as necessary.
Now you could just encode this file, and re-encode the 2nd half. But to make life easier you could:

3a) Choose 'file | save project', then go back to source range, click jump to end frame, set that as the new start frame and choose the new end frame. Then save that project (make sure you give the different projects different output MPEF file names).
Then choose 'file | batach encoding' add both projects and run it.

4) This will produce two MPEG files. If you're making MPEG2 files and want to (easily) add chapters d/load TSVC (www.ttool.org), add your chapters, then create the bin/cue files and burn them. To burn the bin files take a look at:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/burnbin.htm


Another way to go is to d/load DVD2SVCD from http://www.doom9.org this is a actually much faster than running TMPGenc and will give better quality. You'll need to d/load CCE 2.5SP (there's a link for it below the DVD2SVCD beta 11 program) and if you want to remove the CCE watermark/logo from the bottom right of your MPEGs a crack for that

DVD2SVCD is a front in program that will run:

vStrip -> DVD2AVI -> tooLame -> CCE -> pulldown -> CCE -> bbMPEG -> VCDImager