Stupid newbie question about captured video(MMC 7.7)

[Raen]

I'm new to all this video stuff and trying to figure it out. So bare with me.

I have an All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 card and using MMC7.7. I downloaded Stinkies registry hack for it and used one of the preset templates(Standard SVCD template). It looks greats. I recorded a 45 mins show with it(45 mins after pausing when commercials came up.

I've been encoding movies and playing around for a few weeks now, been lurking here and reading and testing and learning. I wanted to try to fit my 45 mins SVCD onto a single CD, I thought it would be a simple matter to just re-encode it. My Apex 1500(Which I bought after reading this site) has played every non standard SVD I've tossed at it so far, so I figured I could re-encode at a lower bitrate and have something that fits on one CD. I load Vdub to extract the audio, I get the following error, MPEG import error: Pack sync error. I decide to skip over the audio part and load TMPGEnc. It says its an unsupported file type.

I'm not the typical newbie that asks before looking, I've been lurking for weeks figuring things out on my own and searching the website up and down. Been looking through this site since last night and tried 1000 different things, so far I can't get anything to work. Can someone tell me how I can re-encode it so it fits one CD and how I can capture highquality from MMC7.7 that I can more easily manipulate? Should I just capture in AVI in the future? Can you not re-encode Mpegs?

In the very near future I plan on getting the Pioneer DvD-R A04, so I dont have to mess with splitting movies onto more then one CD.. however since the media is expensive I figure I'd still put video's onto CD-R/RW's - Savet he DvD-Rs for the good stuff..

[Sulik]

You're probably trying to encode at a too low bitrate for the given resolution and GOP structure, causing vbv buffer violations.

Here are a few suggestions for low-bitrate SVCD:
1- Use 352x480@29.97 (NTSC) or 352x576@25 (PAL) instead of 480 horizontal resolution
2- Deinterlace (always better than interlaced at low bitrates)
3- Use IBBP: P=4, B=2 in MMC to maximize compression
4- Set motion estimation to 100% (default is lower for SVCD)
5- Use VBR

Also, ALWAYS remember to create your custom preset by editing the SVCD preset in MMC 7.7, or else it will create a generic MPEG2 profile instead of SVCD compliant.

An additional option is to hack directly into the profile in the registry and lower the audio bitrate to 128kbps (the default is 224kbps in MMC, and you can't change it through the UI)

[patrickm]

the reason it may come up "unsupported" could be from not having a directshow MPEG-2 codec installed. i actually uninstall the ATI/Cinemaster/Ravisent codec that comes with MMC and use the WinDVD one that came with my DVD drive. You can still playback with ATI player, but you get better FF/REW and no sync problems.

i would guess that the windvd demo installs the codec, and only the player expires...

[Raen]

What should the Bitrate be? I have it set to 2300000(using Stinky's MMC reg hack utility)


And my DvD player came with WinDvD too.. so it has that codec

Also I tried recording with Vdub. I can't seem to get a decent capture with it no matter which codec I use