Multiple Episodes to SVCD

[jcpudd]

I am trying to back up one of my DVD volumes that has multiple episodes on it to SVCD (I don't have a DVD burner yet). I use forty-two to rip the titles into an SVCD.

Now how should I go about getting multiple episodes on one disk. The episodes are only 22 minutes so I should be able to get 3 episodes to a CD. The problem is when I rip the dvd I get a bin/cue file so I don't know what to do to make multiple bin/cue files a SVCD or should I rip the files another way?

Thanks

[dew321]

I think you'll need to output SVCD-ready MPEG files for each of the episodes, and then you should be able to just drop them into Toast v6 to burn the disc. I'm not terribly familiar with forty-two, but you might want to see if there's any option to output as MPEG files instead of bin/cue or disk image files. If not, you can use ffmpegx (but you will need to decrypt your DVD first with MacTheRipper, DVD Backup or 0Sex). All of them are freeware or donateware. In ffmpegx's Video tab, select SVCD from the Quick Presets menu at the bottom. Then go to the Tools tab, and uncheck "Author as SVCD (XA .img)."

[thoughton]

The older forty-twos (1.5 & 1.6) can only do a single title at a time, so you'll end up with only one episode on your SVCD unless each episode is a different chapter all in the same title (this hasn't been the case with episodic discs I've backed up). If it is all in one title you can click on the 'more' button and chose chapters 3-4 (for example). You'll probably only be able to fit 2 episodes per CD.

You'll probably have to ditch forty two, use MTR to rip the individual episodes, and use something like ffmpegX to convert them. Convert each episode separately and then author with Toast or VCDbuilder or something. Never tried ffmpegX's author-as-SVCD tool on more than 1 mpeg2 file, it might work too.