DIVX TO SVCD WITH TMPGEnc problem

[andy73au]

Hi, I followed the DIVX to SVCD guide using TMPGEnc on this website and TMPGEnc converted it successfully but when I go to play it back on Windows Media Player, the video is blank and media player crashes. I have followed the guide right to the letter and no joy. I don't get this problem when I convert to VCD (MPEG-1).

Any Ideas?

[mats.hogberg]

Windows (and hence WMP) doesn't come with MPEG2 (SVCD) decoding capabilities. (But reads MPEG1 (VCD) fine.) Try installing some software DVD player, like PowerDVD, to use for SVCD playback. If you're going to play back on the computer, why go thru the hazzle of converting to SVCD?

/Mats

[Wizeman]

The biggest problem with DivX -> SVCD is that it's *stupid*. You're taking a compressed video file, and making it both bigger and worse (because let's face it - any conversion degrades the original by a fraction or two). If that's still something you want to be spending your time on, then fine. But for the love of God, don't start spreading it around. The only sources for a proper SVCD are digital video files that are *superior* in quality to the final conversion, not *inferior*. Make SVCDs from DVD VOBs or elementary streams, hell - even from DV if you want... but not DivX...

[mats.hogberg]

Gotta disagree - if the "original" DivX is a DVD rip of decent quality, I tend to get OKish results converting them to (S)VCD. As I:

• A - Don't want to watch movies on my monitor
  B - Don't want to mess with running A/V cables from my computer to my TV

creating (S)VCDs is the only option for watching those DivX's I keep stumbling over.
But of course, converting directly from DVD to SVCD gives you even better results, but hey, if I can rip the DVD, I already own the DVD, which is even better again!

/Mats

[banjazzer]

Gotta disagree - if the "original" DivX is a DVD rip of decent quality, I tend to get OKish results converting them to (S)VCD. As I:

A - Don't want to watch movies on my monitor
B - Don't want to mess with running A/V cables from my computer to my TV

I go along with this too. I create SVCD mainly from DVD, but also when I come across a high quality DivX (or XviD) I use these. When I come to watch them I can't always remember what the source was, and it is certainly not straighforward to tell the source from the SVCD!

[RP25]

Watching a divx/SVCD on the big screens 100x better then watching it off the monitor....

And since half my mates own DVD players hooked up to widescreen TVs..... go figure.

Its just plain evil the way DVD players cant play Divx.

[banjazzer]

Its just plain evil the way DVD players cant play Divx.

Though hardly surprising. We've got DivX 3, 4, 5, cbr .mp3 audio, vbr .mp3 audio, .ac3 audio and umpteen resolutions. (I've probably missed a few. Not to mention XviD, and Ogg.

[comet_104]

Hey Ya'll:

Ok..I've gotta ask...I noticed that mats said that he gets a good conversion from dvd to svcd. So, "COLOR ME STUPID", but if we can play both DVD and SVCD on a dvd player???...then why in the world would we wanna go through all of this God forsaken stuff to convert one format that you can play on a dvd player to another format that can also be played on a dvd player????

Thanks,

Comet

[mats.hogberg]

Exactly! That's why I wrote:

But of course, converting directly from DVD to SVCD gives you even better results, but hey, if I can rip the DVD, I already own the DVD, which is even better again!

Only legitimate reason would be "backup" if the DVD gets scratched or otherwise damaged (or for viewing on some system that doesn't handle DVDs).

As for illegitimate reasons, I can think of many more!

[comet_104]

Thanks for the Info Mats...Happy Holidays.