How many SVCDs on one DVD

[vermilion]

Can SVCD2DVD add more the one SVCD to a DVD? ( 2 of more SVCDs on one DVD?

[HighDesert]

Can SVCD2DVD add more the one SVCD to a DVD? ( 2 of more SVCDs on one DVD?

Yep. Generally, I can fit two SVCD movies that are 1.5 GB long. Unfortunately, the actual data that can be wrote to a 4.7 DVD R+- disc is less then 4.4 GB (4.38 I believe). So three 1.5GB SVCD's won't fit. If your SVCD's are a bit shorter you may sqeeze three onto one disc. I have a few of those. As for VCD movies, I can usually fit 3 or 4 movies on one disc.

SVCD2DVD can of course make a menu for all you movies.... and they can be a mix of VCD, SVCD NTSC, and Pal.. since each movie has its own VTS structure. See the FAQ on SVCD2DVD on www.svcd2dvd.com on how to make more then one movie with menus. You can even put your own background picture on the menu.. something I have been sucessfully playing with.. Its a great program.

[madmuppet]

You can fit 3 svcd's on easily

if 3x 1.6gb say

Thats 4.8gb

All you need to do is encode with multi menu then run finished product
through dvdshrink to 4.37gb which it will do automatically if u want.
The quality drop will be negligable as will still be around 90% or so.


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[sjm817]

Well, my SVCDs are burned onto CDR and are ~ 800 Meg each. I can get 5 of these onto a DVD-R.

[vermilion]

"Well, my SVCDs are burned onto CDR and are ~ 800 Meg each. I can get 5 of these onto a DVD-R."

At what bitrate are you encdoing at, and how do your movies look?

[HighDesert]

Most movies are 2 CD's so if you have five, that means one of the movies has three 800 meg files. As for using shrink, I don't want to compress these anymore then they are. Even at two movies a disk, that saves from burning 4 CDR's to only one dvdr. I can live with that. My cost for DVD+r is around 80 cents a piece these days for TDK and Memorix.

The best way to encode is with CCE 5 pass VBR and to do the audio separately. It makes fantastic looking SVCD's. Darn near DVD quality.

[sjm817]

At what bitrate are you encoding at, and how do your movies look?

My SVCDs are home movies of 1hr long each. They started out life as 8mm tape. They were encoded with TMPGEnc using 2 pass VBR.

These were made before the days of DVD-R. I'm using SVCD2DVD to collapse 25 SVCD disks down to 5 DVD disks. If I could get the FF/REW problem fixed that is...but that is another topic.

Anywho, to me, an SVCD is a video disk on CDRom of up to 800 Meg. 5 x 800 Meg = 4 Gig and change. 5 SVCD disks on one DVD media.

[vermilion]

"The best way to encode is with CCE 5 pass VBR and to do the audio separately. It makes fantastic looking SVCD's. Darn near DVD quality"

Are you using TMPEG to do this, or are you using something else?

[HighDesert]

"The best way to encode is with CCE 5 pass VBR and to do the audio separately. It makes fantastic looking SVCD's. Darn near DVD quality"

Are you using TMPEG to do this, or are you using something else?

CCE stands for Cinema Craft Encoder. It is another program that encodes like TMPEG but is not TMPEG. Its professional quality stuff. Here is a link for info: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53770

[metallica]

The best way to encode is with CCE 5 pass VBR and to do the audio separately. It makes fantastic looking SVCD's. Darn near DVD quality.

Are you using doing this in addition to SVCD2DVD? or as another alternate? What do you use for the audio? I'm converting from cue/bin file to DVD compliant.
Thanks,

[HighDesert]

The best way to encode is with CCE 5 pass VBR and to do the audio separately. It makes fantastic looking SVCD's. Darn near DVD quality.

Are you using doing this in addition to SVCD2DVD? or as another alternate? What do you use for the audio? I'm converting from cue/bin file to DVD compliant.
Thanks,

No. I was referring to tools to encode SVCD files from DVD's. SVCD2DVD is all you need to convert mpeg2 files to playable DVD's. I was referring to using a separate audio encoder like BeSweet and then multiplexing it back with CCE video. I have not done this in a while since encoding DVD to SVCD is a time consuming pain in the rears. But I recommend using CCE with DVD2SVCD since it automates alot of the process. Here is one guide that uses DVD2SVCD along with CCE or TMPg. http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/cce_guide.htm

Remember, I am talking about building SVCD files (encoding) If you already have VCD mpeg1 or SVCD mpeg2 files then just use SVCD2DVD.