S-VCD format on a DVD-ROM?

[Kagato99]

I'm very happy that I've downloaded an entire tv series, but it's complicated to watch it from my PC. It would take too many discs if I made it into S-VCD and VCD is too low for my tastes.

I was wondering if anyone's tried this yet. Convert all the video files to the S-VCD standard and burn a DVD-ROM with the file layout of an S-VCD. Theoretically, I could have over 20 hours of video this way.

I can't test it, I don't have access to a DVD writer.

[jbbjshlws]

it is possible to do this with vcd/svcd's but not with all players go to the dvd players section of this web site and find your player and see if it acsepts that option. if it dose then you've got a winner it will work!!

[bugster]

Convert all the video files to the S-VCD standard and burn a DVD-ROM with the file layout of an S-VCD.

You can't do this as such. It is possible to persuade some authoring programs to accept SVCD standard video though (with audio at 48Khz) and author as DVD-video. There is aguide on this site (under Authoring IIRC) explaining how to do this.

[danman78]

I used Spruce Up to do this....I downloaded Enterprise, and put 10 episodes on one DVD. I got the whole first season on two dvd's... you have to do SVCD in my case.

Encode an SVCD like you would normally. Then import it to spruce up.

That is how I did it. Worked fine as long as your DVD player will read the disk.


Dan

[DJRumpy]

SVCD isn't DVD compliant in regards to resolution, or audio frequency. You would be better suited to convert your video to CVD resolution (352x480), which is DVD compliant. Your audio, of course, will still need to be 48Khz. The optimal approach is to capture in CVD resolution, so you can avoid re-encoding later on.