Converting LOTR (DIVX) into a high quality VCD

[nate3201]

Hi, i was wondering if you can tell me exactly how i convert the DIVX version of the LOTR into a high quality VCD. I have tried some of the tuturials on this site but they usaully tend to still have crappy graphics. I know there is a way to do it because i have searched this forum and people have produced sucessful SVCD that almost look as good, but they forget to leave the steps on how to achieve it. you can view my profile to see what system etc i have, but i want it to be on no more than 4 discs (700Mb or i will buy some 900MB ones if thats what you guys think will work best), it can be in the form VCD, XVCD, SVCD whatever, as long as the quality as good as the DIVX. Thanks guys, Nate

[mofo]

i managed to convert a dvd rip of lotr on to 3 vcd and the quality was reasonably hi use the the site tutorials for converting to vcd using TMPeng read it carefully thast how i done it everything u need to now is on this site

[Donny661]

I also downloaded lotr divx and i encoded it to a svcd with 4 700mb cds. I'll tell you some of the steps I took.
First follow the steps in the DivX to VCD All-In-One guide by saving the wav with VirtualDub.
Then open TMPGEnc and exit the wizard. Use your *.avi as your video source and the *.wav from VirtualDub as audio. In the lower right corner click on Load button and load the SVCD tempate (PAL if you have a PAL tv or NTSC or NTSCfilm for NTSC tv. I used NTSCfilm because i have a NTSC tv and the source is the NTSCfilm framrate but you can use whichever). Next again click on the load button and open the folder "Extra" (w/o quotes) and open the file "unlock.mcf"
Next download or use the bitrate calculator on this site to calculate your bitrate here: http://www.vcdhelp.com/calc.htm. My DivX was in two unequal but close in length files so I calculated each file seperately and used the lengths for each file and put 2 cds in the CD field(if yours is one file then put in 4 cds). I also used an audio bitrate of 192.
Now back in TMPG click on the Settings button right next to Load. About halfway down is a pulldown bar that should say "Constant Bitrate (CBR)", change that to "2-pass VBR (VBR)". Next click on the Settings button right next to that pull down bar. Change "Average Bitrate" to your "Calculated Average Bitrate" from the bitrate calculator and change the "Maximum Bitrate" to the "SVCD Max Bitrate" from the bitrate calculator. Also, click on the Audio tab and change the Bitrate to the one you had used in the bitrate calculator. Next click on the advanced tab and double click on "Source range" and set cut your file in half if you have the DivX in two files like me or into a quarter or whatever you had calculated the bitrate for. Then hit OK and you should be ready to start encoding.
The MPG WILL be larger than 700mb but it is possible to burn up to a 800mb MPG (don't ask why it just works out that way when you burn the MPG as a VCD or SVCD). Also, encoding with 2-pass VBR takes forever but it is worth it because the quality is great. Although, it's not quite as good as the DivX, it's very close. You could also put it on 5 cds and still use the VBR even if the max bitrate and average bitrate are the same I heard that this will give you even better quality.
I know this will probably be hard to follow, but if you have any questions please post them and I will try to get back to you.

[Jess]

If you can get your hands on the 4cd svcd version (ripped from a dvd source) do that, the quality is amazing, the best svcd i have ever seen. I can't tell you where to get it but a start in the right direction is to do a search on google or something for sharereactor. When you find that use their search box and type in svcd.
good luck, hope this helps

[bolta]

Hey . . .

These are the steps I followed to get a good-quality, 3-cd (vcd) rip of the LOTR avi files . . .

1) opened each of the avi files in VirtualDub 1.4.8, and ripped the sound to a wav file

2) started TmpgEnc, and loaded the avi as the video source, and the avi as the sound source

3) used Pinoy2201'1 PAL VCD template - this uses VBR encoding. The first time I tried to encode, i used the bog-standard VCD template that came with TmpgEnc but had audio sync problems. Pinoy2201's template seems to have fixed that.

4) sat back and waited for the avi's to be coded.

5) then used the mpeg tools in Tmpgence to split the resulting files into cd-sized lots.

Hope this helps,

B.

[nate3201]

Thanks, Guys.
I was also wondering if you could tell me how i could keep the same screen size, as it usaully stretches the picture making it look crap. And has anyone tried encoding/decoding (not sure which to say) the movie in really hi bitrate so its looks like a DVD and then re-encoding the entire thing would that make the picture better, i don't know just an idea. Thanks everyone

[nate3201]

I tried donny661's method and i got pretty good quality, but i canceled it the first time so i could have a look and then the next day when i sent to encode it in TPMG again it qon't work, it starts and the times all work but it continues to show 0/4654646 frames done. Please help

[Lord Gaiyan]

This is normal for a 2-pass VBR. First it scans the whole movie, hence no frames and on the second pass it starts to encode the frames.

Joshua.