Frameserving to DVD2SVCD

[stevendm]

I hope this hasn't been answered bere before but a quick forum search found nothing.

Can I frameserve from VirtualDub to DVD2SVCD? I tried it last night but got nothing going into DVD2SVCD. I selected a frameserve filename in the conversion tab but nothing showed up for show length, aspect ration, etc. Of course this was my first effort at frameserving and I may have not followed the guides exactly.

TIA

stevendm

[deadpac]

DVD2SVCD comes with VFAPI if you don't already have it. Make sure it is installed properly with the various BAT and INF files contained in it's directory. VFAPI is a great way to frameserve VDR to DVD2SVCD

1) Use Virtual Dub to create a VDR file.

2) Use VFAPI to wrap the VDR file into a pseudo "AVI" file WITH SOUND!

3) open the "AVI" file in DVD2SVCD hit the GO button and check the preview pane and if you see the picture [might have to hit "new frame" a couple of times if your video has all black scenes in it]; you're all set

note: make sure the frameserve from VirtualDub is running while DVD2SVCD is running, you can't close Vdub just because an "AVI" file was created, it still needs a source for it to read from.

note: don't know if it's just me [no it's not just checked doom9's CCE and DVD2SVCD boards and couple people in same situation] but going this route and encoding with CCE is not a very good idea sometimes you get all BLACK video with sound sometimes you don't, from my experience TMPGEnc is the preferred encoder if you are going to frameserve to DVD2SVCD. I eventually gave up trying to figure out how to eliminate the ALL BLACK video phenomenon from frameserves to DVD2SVCD w/CCE as the encoder and converted all partitions to NTFS