At my wits end, someone help...SVCD to DVD-R

[hilikus]

I have been trying to do SVCD to DVD-R for 4 days. I have tried every method I could find or think of. The one I thought had worked ended up not. I re-encoded to DVD NTSC through TMPG and (took forever) and burned w/ maestro. I threw it in the DVD player (pioneer 3-disc) and it played great....UNTIL 25 minutes in it start to get blocky and then stops playing...

Here's what I am trying to do:

-take 4 separate mpg SVCD files and put them on dvd. I have tried the guide here and the guide on Doom9 and nothing...I am so friggin' frustrated...

System:

1.4ghz Athlon
512 DDR
80gig HD
64mb DDR Video
Pioner 105 DVD-R/-RW

[sunmiztres]

can you be alittle more specific? Tell us the exact things you did so we can look through it and hopefully come up with the solution

[Stevmill]

What kind of media are you using?

[wulf109]

It's not necassary to re-encode the video. If your working from a compliant SVCD you video should be 480x480 and the audio 224bit 44100 sample rate. All you are required to do is resample the audio to 48000 sample rate. I would use DV Tool to join the mpg's if you joining. Then demlutiplex into m2v and mp2 streams. Rename the audio stream to mpa. If the video is 480x480 then you need to use DVD Patcher to correct hte headers for importing into your authoring software. I woyld try SpruceUp to author,it' has a very intuative interface and an excellent help file.

[crimpshrine]

I have been trying to do SVCD to DVD-R for 4 days. I have tried every method I could find or think of. The one I thought had worked ended up not. I re-encoded to DVD NTSC through TMPG and (took forever) and burned w/ maestro. I threw it in the DVD player (pioneer 3-disc) and it played great....UNTIL 25 minutes in it start to get blocky and then stops playing...

Here's what I am trying to do:

-take 4 separate mpg SVCD files and put them on dvd. I have tried the guide here and the guide on Doom9 and nothing...I am so friggin' frustrated...

I had the same problems.

I just did what another poster suggested, got another DVD player that supports native MPEG playback from DVD.

Mintek 1600 - 50 bucks.

I was then able to burn 5 dvd's with around 100 mpeg files to playback without having to go through all the trouble of conversion and authoring, just burned them.

The Mintek comes up with a browser, and I can select whatever file I want to play.

I am not sure on SVCD, I was only doing MPEG1 lower resolution. I think it does the higher resolution of SVCD also though.

Either way, it's one more component I know, but it sure beats the time at least for me screwing around with conversion.

[hilikus]

I have already tried multiplexing, changing the audio to 48khz, and patching the files with dvd patcher. When I play it back I get squished horizontally with the video only being about 2/3's across the width of the tv.

Doom9's guide suggests patching the entire file rather than just the header. What does this accomplish?

BTW-I am using esbuy 4x dvd-r.

[sunmiztres]

I have already tried multiplexing, changing the audio to 48khz, and patching the files with dvd patcher. When I play it back I get squished horizontally with the video only being about 2/3's across the width of the tv.

Doom9's guide suggests patching the entire file rather than just the header. What does this accomplish?

BTW-I am using esbuy 4x dvd-r.

The same thing happens when i do what you are doing. I believe that the guide here states that it could do that and if it does it is because your player does not support it, not because of the way you authored it. I have a pioneer and a Apex the pioneer played it where only 2/3 of the screen had the movie but the apex played it normal. This tells me i authored it right but the player does not support it. If your player doesn't support it then i would just reencode to dvd standards or get a player that supports it.

[chemist]

Don't forget that if you use DVDPatcher to patch the 480x480 mpeg file (to DVD resolution) then you have to repatch the VOB files that your DVD authoring program creates. Repatch them back to 480x480 and you shouldn't see any squishing. At least that works for me.

The only reason you have to patch in the first place is to allow the DVD authoring program to see the file as DVD compatible. The resolution is still 480x480 even though you changed the header to indicate otherwise. Consequently, the DVD authoring program accepts the patched file and outputs it as a VOB and THINKS it is at DVD resolution (352x480 or 720x480).. However the file still remains at 480x480. Therefore you must repatch it back to 480x480 with DVD Patcher.