Need some tricks to convert DVD rip to VCD

[MrOhWell]

I used Smartripper and DVDx to convert a DVD to VCD with Dolby 5.1 original sound track (there's no 2 chanels options).

The convertion was OK, good screen quality, audio is syncronise but sound quality not perfect (not a real 2 chanels sound track)

So, i tried to extract AC3 from DVD, convert it in 2 chanels with HeadAC3, and finaly rebuild the movie with TMPEG. Screen and audio quality is OK but not syncronise.

SO, what is the good way to keep all syncronise with good quality ???

[ZippyP.]

I use Smartripper>DVD2AVI>TMPGEnc. DVD2AVI is a frameserver and creates a D2V and it demuxes the audio to wav.

[MrOhWell]

I thought to use this utility but i wonder if my PC (PIII-700MHz) will be able to do the job without losing quality...

[thor300]

Your comp can do the job, but it will be painfully slow with TMPGEnc, so you might consider Mainconcept or CCE. You COULD use the video you already got from DVDx, but if i remember correctly then DVDx does not give much video quality. By the way, doesnt DVDx have framerate conversion? Are you sure you used the same output framerate as the DVD you ripped from? That could be why you got audio desync.

[MrOhWell]

Yes maybe....So, what utilities i must use to see the actualy DVD frame rate ?

[thor300]

Virtualdubmod (file - file information) or PowerDVD. Maybe also in DVDx you can see it.

[MrOhWell]

I re-encoded the movie with TMPGenc with NTSC film default, it's seems to be OK.

Now, the movie will not fit on 700Mo CD. Maybe i must change the bitrate in TMPGenc and some audio setings. I'm not sure...