Ulead Media Studio creates only CBR - SVCD's

[paul@schofield.com]

Looking at the SVCD spec on both http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcd.htm and the Ulead site tips at http://www.ulead.co.uk/dvd/tips.htm they both state that SVCD is MPEG-2 Variable Bit Rate.

If I try and create a Variable Bit Rate SVCD using Media Studio Pro 6 I get an Error Message Unable to find encoder.

I am still waiting on a reply from Ulead Support. Initial reply said I should create a CBR SVCD. It plays OK on my Pioneer DVD player, but I'm hoping for improvd quality using VBR.

Has anyone else come across this, and or fixed it.

[Hateslife]

The max bitrate is so low on SVCD's that it really doesn't matter much at all.

Encoding time, quality, and size were all essentially the same when I tested it with TMPGenc. 2-pass VBR took extra time.

Of course, I was looking for settings to compress an extremely difficult scene, so maybe it's not a good test.

[Lamont Cranston]

MSP V6.0 encoder does not support SVCD. It is one of the new features of V6.5 see: http://www.ulead.com/msp/new.htm. However, if you got the DVD plug-in it does support VBR if you apply the DVD power patch. Encode your VBR SVCD with TMPGEnc or Ligos LSX35 and author and burn with the DVD plug-in.

The only advantage of VBR is the potential reduction in the mpeg file size. In the tests I have run the reduction in file size between VBR and CBR was insignificant.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Lamont Cranston on 2001-11-14 12:57:21 ]</font>