What will I do what my svcds when i get a dvd burner?

[baker]

What will I do what my svcds when i get a dvd burner?

I am building a large collection of svcd films and wondering what people think I should do when I get a dvd burner?

Baker

[MITSUI_1]

My suggestion:

Everytime you rip a DVD, save a copy of the audio-track sampled at 48000khz. Archive the audio tracks on CDRs and keep them safe.

Alwasy encode your DVD rips to SVCDs at 352x480 too. Since dvd authoring programs will not let you create a DVD at 480x480, any SVCDs at that resolution would have to be re-encoded (meh).

The result will be that once you have a DVD burner, you can take your 352x480 SVCDs, demux the original svcd audio, remux with the "archived" DVD audio tracks, dump it all into a DVD authoring program and burn the movies to DVD!

[wingnut]

I'd go along with that, I have a few (PAL) SVCD's which I'm going to have to re-encode to 352x576 from 480x576 before they can go onto DVD's.

If it helps there is an alternative to storing a 48khz audio track though. IF you have womble MPEG2VCR you can demultiplex your original file then save a version of the mpeg with a 48khz/224 soundtrack (this takes a few minutes for a 42 minute PAL MPEG) then remux them.

Depending on the version you may need to demux/remux the new file in TMPGENC before an authoring program like Spruce UP will accept it but I seem to be having some success with the method, albeit in a small testing way until I'm sure since I dont want any £5 ($9) coasters laying around !!

Regards

Ed

[Truman]

Did you ever try to fool your dvd authoring software by changing the sequence header information temporarily?

http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr.htm 8)

[TheSeven7hSon]

If encoding at 352 instead of 480, wouldn't your image quality be lowered?

Seven

[N0SoopForU]

Technically, yes. But, in terms of perceived quality, there isn't a big difference between 352 and 480 horizontal resolution, especially with TV caps. Ofcourse, this may not apply to everyone.

If you plan to move from SVCD to DVD in the future, here is what I would do(and how I currently encode my xSVCDs). Encode at 352x480 as mentioned earlier and encode the audio at 48000. This will save you from having to store the audio track seperately. Then, when the time comes to move to DVD, all you have to do is demux the mpeg and pass the two streams into your DVD software.

[Nelson37]

My APEX will show a file list if I just make a data cd, even with non-standard formats or even AVI's - anyone tried just copying files to a DVD and playing them from the list? the file list seems to be to facilitate playing MP3's, so maybe it will be continued in the future?

[Douglesh]

If i were the original poster of this thread, i wouldnt worry abuot it for a while because currently certain problems exist with DVD burners

a) Price, prices now are very high
b) standards. There is no definite standard in the industry as yet (DVD-R, DVD+R, etc.) time will sort that out
c) DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W) media is way too expensive to be worth it, its heaps better value to still be using CDR-s at 50c each.
d) The speed of the currently available DVD burners are crazy low. You dont wanna end up like someone who bought a CD burner when they first came out, and couldnt burn any faster than 1x.

[jase]

Whats wrong with using the original sound with the SVCD? Why archive a 48000 version?


Cheers

J