Hats off to "DVD2SVCD" totally awesome program....

[spankey]

I have been doing vcd's and svcd's for about a year now with OK results. Nothing I would call "GREAT" though.

I would either have horrible noise blocks or out of sync issues. Or my standalone would not like to play them at all?

I decided to try DVD2SVCD and OMG ....Glad I did!!! The program is soo sweet...

MY audio has NEVER sounded like it does now...What a difference that made. The video itself looks darn close to the actuall DVD? NO noise blocks or sync issues.. And my player played all 5 disks back to back(LORD OF THE RINGS).... It was soo sweet.. I am sold...

I used TMPGEnc for the encoding but let dvd2svcd do the settings. But I choose 2 pass vbr, figuring that was the better choice and see it was!!

So I am so hyper to do another dvd rip. I am off to borrow another!

Figured I'd share my joy with you all...THanks

Spankey

Now to figure out how to get widescreen movies to be a tad larger in the encoding process? Man I gave up about 6 inches from top and bottom on my 32" for this lord of the rings... It encoded it as letterbox I think? OH well it still looks sweet.....

[Executioner]

I could not agree with you more on DVD2SVCD, except I use CCE version 2.50 4 pass VBR and the results are almost like the original DvD.

[jkl]

ditto

[REDi]

same here.. dvd2svcd with CCE gives amazing results. I manage to rip an average movie of around 120mins in 7 hours. Just click go, sleep, wake up it's done!

[LeeBear]

Yup DVD2SVCD is pretty awesome. Does all the dirty work for you. Even handles AVI's for the download freaks =) Man spankey I don't even want to imagine how long it took to encode Lord of the Rings using a 2 pass VBR in TMPG =) I'm with Executioner I'll stick with my 4 pass (actually a 5 pass) using CCE in half the time of TMPG's 2 pass =) I feel a bit sorry for you spankey, having to watch LOTR on your 32" letterbox... you have to see it on a 34" widescreen direct view Toshiba HDTV... it's f*cking amazing. The only drawback with HDTV is you can really see the difference between SVCD's and DVD's... even badly encoded DVD's are noticeable.

-LeeBear

[offline]

way to go spankey! Welcome to a club with many satisfied customers

One thing tho.. try CCE @ 3-4pass.

[spankey]

Hey all-

I forgot to re-post that I did get CCE and Wahoooo.... Tmpgenc is old news now... I ripped monsters inc the other night while I slept. I burnt it in the morning... Totally awesome.....


Only thing is that I downloaded CCE off .......... and see no demo overlay on the finished product? Ya know what I mean? Some people claimed there was a CCE lable on the finished product in a trial version they had?Maybee I got lucky and got a patched version?? Hope it stays this way!!! LOL


DVD2SVCD and CCE all the way!!!!

Spank...

[Waylander076]

Has to be said I ripped 'The One' as my first SVCD using DVD2SVCD....
Using CBR and CCE...Awsome result!

Now to try 4 pass VBR...

No way am i going back to VCD now!

Waylander

[animeal]

Hi, whats cbr and 4 pass vbr? Newbie here

[BxB]

Agree with previous comments about 4-pass VBR. Widescreen movies turn into widescreen-letterboxed into standard-letterboxed into widescreen on my 51" HD RPTV. I can change the aspect so it fills the screen, but the artifacts are awful (they'd be pretty bad with DVD as well). I just end up with black bars on the top/bottom AND sides, but it looks great!

I'd really miss the 5.1 digital soundtrack on LOTR, though. Its really spectacular - you can hear birds singing in one back corner and the wind blowing in another as people are talking in the front. I've heard people complain about the artifacts (since its such a long movie), but I don't see them. This is one DVD that really should be owned.

BB

[GiantRobo]

Spankey, thanks to your post I just tried DVD2SVCD yesterday night and I am blown away!! thanks! My Mpeg2 SVCD movies converted from DivX movies now look like exactly the same on TV as it does as on my PC. The quality is awesome.

And thanks to my Dazzle DVC2 I don't have to split up SVCD's into three CDs and swap out or wait while CD's change over. I just convert the DivX AVI to SVCD in one entire Mpeg2 file and watch on my TV with Dazzle's TVout. <g>

[GET1A2]

SVCD using DVD2SVCD....
Using CBR and CCE...Awsome result!
where can i get this pass 4 also i need help i have managed to do a svcd but towards end of film the picture breaks up sound is distorted i burn at 4 speed whats the best way to get a perfect copy what do i need to do best metod thanks

[troyvcd1]

I know that this issue has been discussed before but will I get better quality using dvd2svcd using CCE CBR or 4 pass. I want the absolute best quality regardless of bits used. I think my dvd player maxes out at about 2600. (pioneer 440).

Also what is this encode I frames check box. Should I leave it checked or not. I encode mostly home minidv movies.

Also I agree this program is the best program I have ever used. It kinda seems like I am cheating though because I dont need to learn how these programs withing dvd2svcd work. But whos complaining.

[DUKE107]

hey all, I am a master at encoding perfect SVCD's with smartrip - dvdtoavi - then encode TMPge and burn. But I must admit it is a lot of work and god forbid I make a mistake encoding by not changing a setting. I tried this program once dvdtosvcd and could not get it to work, wouldn't load movie file. Where can I get these programs u mention to give this a second go?

[pimp80]

http://www.doom9.org/

[animeal]

k, no one answer my question!!!!!

[Plant_Guy]

CBR refers to Constant Bit Rate meaning that the video stream does not change bit rate regardless of content. VBR, or Variable Bit Rate in theory produces smaller file sizes b/c the converter lowers the bitrate on scenes that don't need the high rate and reserves the extra reserve for high action scenes. The algorithm produces better results when it encodes in several passes b/c the calculations are tweaked more and more on each successive pass. The law of diminishing returns applies here, with the greatest quality improvements in the 2nd and 3rd passes. Well, I hope that answers your inquiry.

TomG. - aka Plant_Guy