EazyVCD disk size, sound level, auto resize on PowerDVD.

[Ebanezum]

I like using EazyVCD and version 1.14e is easy to use.
A 90 minute movie in XVCD on one 80 min disk looks very good.

EazyVCD can create BIN/CUE files for 74min, 80min and 99min.
My burner can only manage 85 min on a 90min CD-R.
How can I select 85 minutes?

The sound level of the XVCD is similar to the original DVD.
How can I normalise the volume to maximum?

To show a 16:9 movie in letterbox mode on a 4:3 TV default settings work.
To show a 16:9 movie on a 16:9 TV you set 4:3 in the aspect setting.
This will fill the VCD window and display correctly on a 16:9 TV.
How can I get PowerDVD to automatically stretch this picture?
(It does with the original DVD).

EazyVCD is a user interface for the following programmes:
vStrip, DVD2AVI, BeSweet, TMPGEnc and VCDImager.
Do I need to run all these independently to get what I want?
I really don't want to do this if EazyVCD can do it for me.

[Super Warrior]

I tried Easy VCD recently for a while and it seemed like it was good....But the SVCD/XSVCDs created with it just looked like crap! The video is always all jerky and jumpy,and the audio was weird.It would go out of synch when after fast forwarding,but then catch up.VCD/XVCD was not too great either.

I recommend just useing the TMPGenc program by itself.It seems to be a great all-in-one encoder for VCD/SVCD and is not all that much harder to use.It handles the audio pretty good as well as the video too.I also have none of the problems occuring with TMPGenc,that i did with easy vcd.

Now you're probabley wondering why TMPGenc would be better by itself,when its one of the programs easy VCD uses.Well ya got me there,all i can think is that Easy VCD does some really crazy stuff in the whole encodeing process.

Easy VCD=A very "EASY" waste of time(and CD-Rs).

[dick_p_t]

@star warrior

Could you tell me what settings you used, as you are the first to complain about poor quality.

of course if you try to fit a 2 or 3 hour movie on 1 CD-R the quality will be shitty, but if you just go to normal VCD or XVCD over 2 or 3 CD's the quality is very good.

anyway, let me know what move it was and what settings you used so that i may inprove the program.

Rob Ferguson

[Super Warrior]

@star warrior

Could you tell me what settings you used, as you are the first to complain about poor quality.

of course if you try to fit a 2 or 3 hour movie on 1 CD-R the quality will be shitty, but if you just go to normal VCD or XVCD over 2 or 3 CD's the quality is very good.

anyway, let me know what move it was and what settings you used so that i may inprove the program.

Rob Ferguson

I'm not the first.Others have mentioned lack of quality as well.And yeah i am aware trying to fit a movie on 1 CD-R won't look too good.

This is what did many times with all 4 encodeing types and tested with several DVDs:

• Encodeing quality:High
• Encodeing Type:VCD/SVCD/XVCD/XSVCD
• X(S)VCD Type:80 Min 700MB CD-R
• X(S)VCD Amount:2

XVCD/VCD's came out looking lame and had Audio sych problems.

XSVCD/SVCD's audio was okay.But the picture was always very jumpy whenever a lot was happening onscreen,and even a little when things slowed down.Just seeing characters walking looked weird.Things just looked crappy and were'nt smooth at all.

But when just useing the version of TMPGenc that came with Easy Vcd.And simply putting the vobs through one of of the built-in templates,like SVCD NTSC.It produced much better results with both audio&video and none of the above problems.

So now i just don't even bother useing the Easy Vcd program.I just use Vstrip to rip the Vobs and then go directly to TMPGenc to encode them.Works out much better.

[dick_p_t]

hmmmm........

I'm a little confused by that. as if ripping to VCD or SVCD "Eazy VCD" just uses the same template as supplied with TMPGEnc, but just sets the aspect ratio and Motion Search for you.

in XVCD and XSVCD mode, it's the same template again, but Eazy VCD select the Aspect Ratio and Motion Search for you.
It also flags the mpeg streem and "Non-Standard" in XVCD mode and in both XVCD and XSVCD modes it will auto set the bitrate for you as defined by the media size and media amount.

Rob Ferguson