SVCD > DVDr

[Haku]

Sorry if this is in the wrong section,but i was'bt sure where to put it.

I have the 3 disc svcd dvd screener of 007,Die Another Day.I was thinking of encoding it to DVDr.

How would i go about doing it.

Would it be like this.

Join all 3 mpegs together with tmpgenc,encode the movie with CCE to a m2v file,convert the audio to mp2 with tmpgenc(using external lame encoder),then infoedit to author it.If i right this would give me a dvd complient film with no menu of chapters ?

All so what bitrate would i do the audio,224k as thats what the svcd audio is at.

Also what birate should i do the movie ? using the java calc i get .avg 4296 .max 9346.

But i was thinking of going 4 pass VBR .avg 4296 .max 9000 .min 2500 or 3000. Any recomendations???


Im thinking of doing the same with the 3 disc svcd dvd screener of harry potter once i get it.

[wulf109]

Look in the guides on this website,there are good guides for what you want to do. Your first problem is that SVCD uses 484x480 resolution which is in-compatible with DVD. Also by converting audio do you mean the sampleing rate. SVCD uses 44100,but DVD requires 48000. Your audio bitrate of 224 will work.

[Haku]

First of if i tick dvd complient in CCE it will change the res to dvd res.
Secondly with the audio what should i do leave it as 224k,but what sample rate 44100 or 48000 ??

So by doing this i would have a m2v video file that cce would give and a mp2 audio file from tmpgenc,then all i would have to do is author it with infoedit and burn it.

[wulf109]

On the audio you have to resample it to 48000 to make it DVD compliant. Leave the audio bitrate at 224,increaseing the bitrate won't improve the 224. Also change the file extension from mp2 to mpa,some authorware will only import it as mpa.
Encodeing in CCE won't change the resolution. You need a program called DVD Patcher to correct the headers to trick your authoring software into thinking it's 720x480.
Re-encodeing your original video won't improve it,in fact it may very well make it worse. You can't really improve what you already have.

[Haku]

i see what your saying,and i know re-ecoding it wont make the quality better,but according to the svcd > dvd guide you have to load the svcd mpeg2 file into dvd2avi then save to a d2v file,then encode it as a dvd using tmpgenc dvd template,or under cce with dvd compliant ticked as the cce manual says that if the orignal source aint dvd frame size it will be resized,pal 25fps will be resized to 720X576.


Ive also read that by using that patcher or some else to trick the player into thinking its dvd it may not work on all players.But by re-ecoding it like the guide says it will work better.

on here http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcddvdr.htm it says :

Standard DVD do not support the SVCD MPEG2 standard but you can anyway make some kind of XDVD without reencoding the SVCD that may work on some DVD Players. If you want real DVD reencode your SVCD to DVD instead.

[wulf109]

It is not necessary to run it thru DVD2AVI. THe mpeg can be demuxed into m2v and mp2. Authoring software will except the SVCD mpg2(m2v) without any processing. Just resample audio to 48000. DVD Patcher has worked fine for me on four different DVD players.

[Haku]

where can i get that dvd patcher,i might as well give it a try.?

[Airr]

You can find DVD Patcher at www.doom9.net under the S/VCD Tools section (click on the 'more' link to get to it)

I used this on the same svcd as you're looking to do; the only thing diff is that I set the program to change the res to 352X480 (from 480x480) instead of using 720.

Works great! Tested on 3 diff players with no issues....

Briefly, here are the steps that I took:

1-Rip mpegs from cd image with VCDEASY (VCDGear generated pops in the audio stream for me)

2-Merge SVCD Mpeg Files with Tmpge

3-Simple DeMux newly merged mpeg with Tmpge

4-DVD Patcher on M2V file (change to 352*480/576)

5-BeSweet to transcode audio (mp2 file) to 224bps/48khz DVD compliant mp2 (if needed)

6-Import video and audio streams into IfoEdit to create DVD structure

7-IfoEdit Vob Extras. Check "Rebuild PTS", Correct Vob-Unit, Correct Original ifo Files, Create new IFO files. Uncheck Strip.

8-Copy newly created *.ifo and *.bup files over to location of VOB files, overwriting all old files.

9-Test using DVD software player (I use PowerDVD XP)

10-DVD Patcher on all Vobs (change back to 480*480/576)

11-IfoEdit create disk image

12-burn image to disk

Steps 7 and 8 probably aren't neccessary, try skipping and see.

Note that when you test the compiled product, the screen will be shifted a bit to the right. That's because the aspect ratio is a bit off, but it gets fixed when you re-run DVD Patcher (I do it this way to make sure the audio is in sync).

HTH!