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  1. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir on this one, but going through this forum I see people have lots of problems converting SVCD to DVD. I felt that I should share my experience with SVCD to DVD. It is possible to take your SVCDs and put them on a DVD without the use of special programs like "SVCD2DVD".

    The procedure is very simple and works great for me.

    1. Demux the mpg to m2v and mp2 with TMPGenc.
    2. Convert the mp2 to 48 kHz with BeSweet.
    3. Patch the header of the m2v to "720" resolution using DVD Patcher. Be sure to keep all other settings the same as the original file, this means you have to set a custom bitrate.
    4. Use TMPG DVD Author to make the DVD structure and bring in your modified m2v and mp2 files.
    5. Use TMPG DVD Author or Nero to burn the DVD.

    I make DVDs like this with multiple SVCDs and they play great in an "ancient" Sony NS-330 and a newer Philips DVD727.

    I would appreciate any comments anyone has on this method and why it is not considered a standard within this forum. I can't even find a guide on this website that uses this method. I don't mind making a guide unless there's some reason this is a bad idea or something.

    I was thinking that maybe people don't use this method because they have multi disc SVCD movies and want to join them somehow before putting them on DVD, but that shouldn't be a concern if you use TMPG DVD Author because it lets you set an option to "play next track" when the preceeding track is finished, so the transition to "SVCD disc 2" is seamless.
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  2. Hi, saw your post and had a question: Don't you lose quality by converting 576x480 to 720x576?

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  3. You don't convert to 720 you patch the header. Which means the video is still the same but in the header there is 1 bit that says the video has a width of 720. But the video is stil the same size.
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  4. Got it. V.helpful guide btw as most downloaded clips aren't good enough for DVD but too good for VCD. What I've been doing so far is converting to half res DVD in TMPGenc but quality suffers.

    So converting to SVCD then patching to DVD is the best way to go I guess, right?

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    SVCD2DVD ultimatly does the same thing. The difference between the two approaches is that with SVCD2DVD you only spend a matter of seconds in front of your PC whilst it is processing 5 x 800MB and resulting in a burnt DVDR.

    Also there are many guides along these lines:

    https://www.videohelp.com/svcddvdr.htm

    for example, is one of the oldest guide on the whole site.

    I used to do it this way. Too much effort. So I decided to automate it.
    SVCD2DVD v2.5, AVI/MPEG/HDTV/AviSynth/h264->DVD, PAL->NTSC conversion.
    VOB2MPG PRO, Extract mpegs from your DVDs - with you in control!
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    i don't understand why a 480x480 pixel map plays without
    aspect ratio problems. Patching the header only fools the authoring
    program. The video still has only 480 samples horizontally , which
    is an illegal DVD width. If the player couldn't handle that , it
    wouldn't work at all. That probably only works because your players
    are SVCD capable.

    What happens if you keep the audio at 44100 ? That might work too.
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  7. 'without special programs or re-encoding'

    except that:

    1. you re-encode the audio (exactly the same as svcd2dvd does)
    2. I would call TMPG DVD Author a 'special program' since it costs $68 (considerably more than svcd2dvd)

    I guess you mean that SVCD2DVD is a 'special program' because it saves you hours of needless work
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  8. i don't understand why a 480x480 pixel map plays without
    aspect ratio problems. Patching the header only fools the authoring
    program. The video still has only 480 samples horizontally , which
    is an illegal DVD width. If the player couldn't handle that , it
    wouldn't work at all. That probably only works because your players
    are SVCD capable.
    I don't think this is quite true, because my 1999 model Sony NS300 (not 330 as I said before) doesn't play SVCD's, but it does play these DVD-SVCDs per the method I doescribed. If I try to play a real SVCD it refuses to play unless I do the VCD header trick and re-burn the disc and then they plays fine.

    What happens if you keep the audio at 44100 ? That might work too.
    I never tried that. I didn't want to take a chance, and besides there is hardly any audible artifacting from using BeSweet.
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  9. "2. I would call TMPG DVD Author a 'special program' since it costs $68 (considerably more than svcd2dvd)"

    Yes but it is also a program I use all the time as my primary DVD author app. I don't have anything against SVCD2DVD, I was just sharing my experiences.
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  10. ChrissyBoy,

    Thanks for your comments. I never actually tried your programs because of the .NET requirement. I was scared to install NET for fear of bogging down my system. Why does your program need it? Thanks.
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    Because it is a .Net application.... Just my choice of programming language.
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