DVD Question

[qshartle]

I have succesfully made 2 movies into svcd format, now i would like to burn both of them to a DVD-R, since they are both about 1.5 gigs. Is there any way with Toast or another program to make an SVCD on a DVD, and maybe with a menu?

i would greatly appreciate it since they are both really good movies.



Qshartle

[bilestyle]

if your want to make menus for a dvd from svcd source (to be a truely compatible DVD, not an xDVD) you need to reconvert both movies to either 720x480 or 352x480 (i would suggest 720) and then author them in dvd studio pro or CaptyDVD. toast can be used at the very end, but you need more than toast to author svcd onto dvd with menus. Sizzle MIGHT work to author svcd mpegs onto a dvd, but i dont know how well they would work, i converted and burned two seperate svcd movies onto a dvd at 480x480 with sizzle and the end product was disgusting it filled the bottom 1/4th of the screen and the rest was black, and it was allll choppy. u can edit them svcd mpegs in hexedit and make a pseudodvd/xdvd, but that doesnt work on nearly as many players. and sometimes dvd studio pro just wont except the "doctored" mpeg-2 files.

[qshartle]

Wouldnt it be possible to make 2 SVCD images and then burn them to a DVD-R, but with no menu?

[bilestyle]

my answer remains the same, first off you CANT just do that in toast because they need to be formatted into a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder.. they can be made into svcd images and burned to dvd-r, it doesnt work like that. anything you do without re-encoding will be a xDVD and will not work in a lot of players... the questions and concepts you are asking have been asked since dvd-r drives have come out and the answer remains the same. there is no easy way around putting SVCD files into a DVD and having them truely be dvd compliant. and as for making into XA images and burnin onto a dvd-r.. go ahead and try.. because i definitely won't waste a blank on that. the chances of it working aren't very good. A dvd expects a specific layout format, and the one for SVCD/VCD is COMPLETELY different.

[qshartle]

OK
I will re-encode my video to those specs, then I will try to do what you said.


Thanks



Qshartle