There Is No SVCD TO DVD Conversion

[legalthugs]

I came to a conclusion that there is not a svcd to dvd conversion that actually works.
There are a few problems that if solve maybe svcd to dvd would work:

All Examples are Used With Tmpgenc:
1st: Audio is out of sync with video if using dvd2avi (.d2v) as Video and (mpeg Audio) MPA T01 DELAY -526ms <-- Which Has A Delay. (Just No Good), A Software that can Actually fix the .mpa (mpeg Audio) Delay Might work, But Have'nt Found one that Actually Works on .mpa. Try This: http://home.t-online.de/home/520072193568-0001/ <-- Dont work with .mpa

2nd: If using The SVCD MPEG file for video and audio this works also but know the picture no longer moves smoothly. It doesnt matter if you check Deinterlace or you select CBR , VBR (2passes) or even put the DC Component Percision on 10- Just Doesnt Work Picture is no longer smooth and looks mechanical.

If there is someone that actually made a DVD From a SVCD Mpeg and everything Is smooth audio is insync with video please write a new SVCD to DVD Conversion Please.. Until then SVCD Conversion To DVD is'nt as easy as it seems to be..

[wulf109]

Put the SVCD's mpg on the HD. Demux with MPeg Tools. Patch the header of the m2v from 480x480 to a compliant DVD size(DVD Patcher)
Convert the audio to a 48000 sample rate. Rename the new mp2 to mpa
Author with SpruceUp,burnd wtih Nero. Works everytime time for me.

[kitty]

Did you use the guides on this site?
http://www.vcdhelp.com/mpeg2tovcd.htm
http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcddvdr.htm

[DJRumpy]

One should never make such bold statements. 20 people will be lined up waiting to tell you exactly how wrong you are. Follow Kitty's advice. You just haven't done your homework.

My preferred method. AVISYnth, using the TRIM command to clip out any overlap between CD's. AlignedSplice to eliminate any other sync issues. BicubicResize, and AddBorders for those 2.35 movies. ResampleAudio(48000) to make em compliant.


Just finished Die Another Day...

[deramon]

Put the SVCD's mpg on the HD. Demux with MPeg Tools. Patch the header of the m2v from 480x480 to a compliant DVD size(DVD Patcher)
Convert the audio to a 48000 sample rate. Rename the new mp2 to mpa
Author with SpruceUp,burnd wtih Nero. Works everytime time for me.

I am a little confused here. I thought that you used spruceup to actually burn the DVD ...not nero? Actually I have had some trouble with spruceup, it does not like a DVD+rw that has been erased, as I continue to get a message "the DVD is not blank, erase?" and then the erasing crashes the app.

Right now I am experimenting with using ulead dvd moviefactory to burn the DVD. Let you know what happens.

[deramon]

Well that worked except that there was no audio ...
Trying the steps again.

[DJRumpy]

I use spruce up to Author the DVD, but I use NERO to burn it. There is an option to TILE in SpruceUp , which creates the VIDEO_TS, and AUDIO_TS folders, but does not burn the files. I drag those into Nero to burn. SpruceUp is a nice piece of software, but it's old, and dated as far as burning software goes. I prefer to burn with something a bit newer.

As for your audio problem, right click your video In SpruceUp, to make sure it imported properly. If it did not, your file will show all 'N/A' in the audio properties. If you see this problem, make sure your audio is DVD compliant (48Khz). It should also be in a compliant format (MP2, AC3, PCM). I sometimes find converting MP2 to AC3 will resolve problems, and vice versa if my audio is in AC3.

[deramon]

Thanks DJRumpy for your input. Actually I don't know what happened but the audio problem has pretty much fixed itself. I have found that creating an image file and then using daemon tools to load the file as a drive and then do a dvd to dvd copy is the best solution for me. I can check the image file easily with a dvd player before burning. Funny though that 3 svcd mpg files of 833 megs winds up being a 2.1 gig image and 2.2 gig dvd file ...

Personally I am very happy with the quality of the resulting dvd. And the quick processing time of not having to re-encode is worth the extra stpes. I am sure someone enterprising person will develop an app to merge the steps and create a single click process.

[DJRumpy]

That is strange, although each time you re-encode an MPG, it gets a bit softer (loses detail), and as a by product, it will compress a bit more.

I'm guessing you used the header trick, instead of re-encoding? Did you change your audio encoding type (mp2 to ac3 for instance), or did you change the bitrate?

[deramon]

Yes I am using the header trick although that took me a bit to get to understand. I could not get AVestensione to work for me (the right click would not work ...) but DVD Patcher works fine.

In fact what I do is because most svcds are in parts, I Demultiplex all the parts first, then convert the audio to 48khz for all the files (using tmpgenc), then change the headers for all the files (using dvdpatcher.) Then I start spruceup, I add all the parts, make my title and background, save the project, exit, change the headers back, restart spruceup, load the project, and make the image or files for burning.

Spruceup will not burn properly for me to dvd+rw, it always sees that the dvd is not blank, tries to erase and crashes ... so I use nero to burn. Both the image (as dvd copy with daemon tools) and vobs, bup, ifo work fine.

Hopefully this is understandable...

[DJRumpy]

The only bad thing I can see with what your doing, is the fact that SpruceUp doesn't seemlessly join multiple parts. It requires a menu click to view the latter parts of the movie.

[deramon]

Thanks DJRumpy. Yes spruceup does have that issue that you need the remote to select the next chapter. Is there another DVD authoring program that will give me chapters and a title and menu sysyem that is easy to use? I have a bunch of other apps, but haven't explored them all. I both ulead dvd movie factory and ulead video studio 6 se DVD, and even some others ...

Thanks.

[DJRumpy]

Most other DVD Authoring programs will let you 'program' what action to take when it reaches the end of a particular MPEG stream. SpruceUp is an exception, and not the rule. I find it simpler to just join the MPEG's using TMPGenc's MPEG TOOLS.

[Airr]

I find it simpler to just join the MPEG's using TMPGenc's MPEG TOOLS.

I used to do it this way, but with SVCD's I'd almost always have sync issues.

Nowadays, I just append the two video streams in Maestro, create ac3's instead of mp2's, and create an audio sync track using the ac3's which sync up perfectly...