Need Help with Vertical Limit. Can't get a good encode

[Roveer]

I've been trying on and off for 3 months to get an acceptable rip of 'vertical limit'. Most of my attempts are way too choppy or have 'shifting' every couple of frames

DVD is NTSC

Has anyone encoded this with success and if so, could you share your settings. I'm trying for SVCD XVCD SxVCD. Number of disks isn't an issue I've got a 5 disk changer.

Here's a very strange thing:

DVD2AVI shows this as 90+% film at 29.9x fps how do I deal with this???

Any help is appreciated

Roveer

[Vejita-sama]

Well if it DVD2AVI reads it as film you do need to turn 'force film' on in DVD2AVI or the encode could be 'skippy.'

Let make a suggestion. Try DVD2SVCD it's a front end program that will run:

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

You can read about it at http://www.doom9.org look under 'The Guides.' You'll also need to get CCE 2.5sp there's link to a demo verison on the doom9.org DVD2SVCD guide page. The newest ver of the DVD2SVCD software bundle (1.02build can be d/loaded from http://dvd2svcd.doom9.net

For DVD like quility I use a bitrate of 1800 or greater and 3pass VBR (ie. 4pass, the first pass is CBR and then multipass=3).

The demo ver of CCE will put a watermark/logo in the bottom right of the MPEG. I've heard there's a crack for this

[Roveer]

Simply stunned!!!

Took your suggestion and set up DVD2SVCD and ran vertical limit through with very little modification and burned the resulting BIN file and was very much amazed at what I got...

I'm a little fuzzy on two areas of the program that maybe someone can help with.

1. The 'bitrate' section does not seem straight forward to me. Can someone explain what needs to be done here. Are the only areas that count here the max, min, max avg and min avg? Why are there 4 sections here?

2. Cinema Craft Encoder: I did Multipass VBR (3 passes), Image Quality Priority 100 Anti noise filter 2. I noticed that I had a fair amount of aliasing around things that were moving. Any way to correct or improve this?

I was just about to give up on burning CD's, but this thing gives me hope again!!!

Roveer