DVDx experts pls advice

[lightweaver]

Hi DVDx gurus out there,

actually i would like to burn a SVCD with subtitles. I was adviced to use DVDx. I find it really simple to use but realise that the quality is kinda bad.

I've set the video quality to High. And doing bicubic resizing .

However the results turn out kinda inferior as compared to wat i would normally get fr TMPENC. However i would need the subtitles as it's a foreign movie.

The results

Sound: Jerky
video: Fuzzy. Can see horizontal lines and blur edges when the person moves. kinda irritating if u ask me.

Pls advce.

I've tried DVD2SVCD and used the guides. But it uses to much HDD space, something i'm found wanting, and give me error messages as i go along. Irritating too.


Any simpler way?
Desperate

Thx for reading.

[tearex]

You can use DVDx to frameserve the movie complete with subtitles and all. Chose "HQ 48->44.1" and "iDCT: FPU" in Input settings. Also chose the right subtitle track.

In Output settings chose the "AVI" thing in the upper left instead of VCD or SVCD. Chose "Size" to be 720x576 (for PAL DVDs) or 720x480 (for NTSC DVDs). Also select "Nearest" resizing since we aren't actually resizing anything. Then select the "Video pass server" (Premiere) in the lower right corner - I don't remeber the exact word but chose the thing that is not ""No server". Also set the Output type (lower left) as "YUV2". Click "Plug Settings". Go through the tabs and select a good output filename and disable "Timeout".

Close all Dialogs and start the "encoding". Wait for the countdown to finish, minimize the windows and then fire up TMPGenc and load up the pseudo-AVI just created by the Server Plugin, normally it's called C:\IPCserver.AVI . Do all the "real work" like resizing etc. in TMPGenc (or with an intermediate AVISynth script if you want the very best quality.)