Converting an AVI to VCD with TMPGEnc

[Darkstar359]

I usually rip the dvd (smartripper), Make an avi file with DVD2AVI and then to DIVX. After that from Divx to VCD. Usually get very good quality results with minimum blockiness but this process takes 4 ever. My problem is when going from avi straight to VCD I get poor results no matter what I do. The video is always distorted or blocky. I've tried increasing bitrate in TMPGEnc, Motion Comp. to highest and a bunch of other things. Can someone give me a few pointers please. Constructive criticism welcome.

[kayfam]

I don't know your level of expertise so I hope this doesn't sound condescending, but why are you saving to avi format in the first place? That's what's slowing you down so much. You can use dvd2avi to frameserve to TMPEGnc and cut out all the in-between conversion. This might account for you poor results. To do so just select save project instead of save avi and you can feed the .d2v file directly. Just remember each time you encode from one format to another you do lose quality.

[Darkstar359]

That's what I meant, sorry for being kinda vague. I am converting the VOB files using DVD2AVI and making .d2v files and then going straight to TMPGEnc, but no matter what template I use or any options I change, still looks like garbage compared to going from divx to vcd and still using TMPGEnc to do it.

[aguillon]

I would recommend the method I have used with very decent results:

FlaskMPEG, Panasonic plug-in, straight from DVD to VCD with very good quality everytime.

[NeWcS]

Are you doing Smartripper>dvd2avi>tmpg

or Smartripper>dvd2avi, save avi>encoding to DivX>tmpg>mpg????

Your first post you make it sound like you using dvd2avi and saving it as an uncompressed avi then encoding it to DivX then to mpg??

"Make an avi file with DVD2AVI and then to DIVX. After that from Divx to VCD"

All you have to do Is: smartripper, load vobs into dvd2avi and 'save project'. The output will be a .d2v file and a .wav file. Load the d2v file as your video file in TMPG and your .wav as your audio.

-Hope this helps