SVCD to DVD-R conversion the easy way.

[wulf109]

I've got a lot of SVCD's I'd like to convert to DVD-R and I've been looking at various ways of doing it. I decided to give Ifoedit 95's authoring mode a try. Put the mpg on my HD and demuxed into m2v and mp2 streams. I renamed to mp2 to mpa. I left the video at 480x480 and the audio sampled at 44100. Authored those files in Ifoedit 95 and burned to a DVD-RW. It played nomally on my computer and on my two standalone DVD players. Normal aspect ratio in the video and normal audio playback. Even with 480x480 video and 44100 audio it plays normally on my DVD players.

[supersam]

what type of dvd player do u have or tested ur dvd-r on.. and i was just thinking of what u just did 8) . with this new method we can add 2 or 3 svcds with higher bitrates to get outstanding quality. so tell me what steps are needed in ifoedit to be compatible on a dvd-r?

great job wulf109!!!!

[wulf109]

The DVD players I tested on were a Sampo DVE612 and a Cyberhome 402. The steps are as I outlined in my original post.
Demux the SVCD and author with Ifoedit 95.

[supersam]

now im thinking if its possible to put 2 or 3 svcds onto one dvd-r . or if that might cause a conflict with the dvd player as to what movie is which. i will explore that area as soon as i get some more dvd-r's

[Super Warrior]

Ummm hey guys....is'nt the only difference between a SVCD file and DVD,is 44/48KHZ for sound?

It seems to me like you could easily re-encode just the sound to 48KHZ useing TMPGenc.Then take the new audio and put it though TMPGenc again along with the video,to make a whole Mpeg-2 file again.

Resulting in a SVCD Mpeg 2 file the same as before,but now with 48KHZ audio.Then burn it to dvd with the program of your choice....

[wulf109]

Suoersam

If you had 3 SVCD containing one movie you could join them into one file before demuxing. I would use DV Tool to join them,in my expierence it's a lot more forgiving than TMpeg for joining.

[Baldrick]

star warrior: The svcd resolution(480x580/576) is not dvd compatible so to just change the audio will not make it a 100% compatible dvd. Ifoedit does not have any dvd compatible checks so it is good to use to make "xDVDs", for example svcd mpegs authored as dvd.

[Grim Reaper]

I cant get the svcd to dvd-r to work right. It plays fine on NON SVCD playing dvd players (weird!), but NOT on my svcd Playing dvd! I posted this a while back and no one seems to have any advice for me.

Is the mpg2 used in svcd the same as used in dvd? I know the codec are both mpg2, but there are differences in the gop structures right? I know the video size is different too. But, I have encoded my video as a lowbit dvd (3000) using TMPEG and it does not look as good as my svcd of that same video using 2600! (TEMPG) What gives?

Grim Reaper

[supersam]

hey wulf109, i had many experiences with TMPGE when encoding two mpegs together. the resulting piece is not good. its always out of sync no matter what. i think i am gonna try out dv tools to join m2v files onto one m2v as well as the mpa sound files. if not then i can just put one svcd and author it to a dvd-r . if i do this, then i can dramatically put ALOT of bits to the movie making the movie sharper and crispier. come to think of it . i think thats what im gonna do now(putting svcds) onto a dvd-r with outstanding bitrate.