SVCD to DVD----many weeks wasted.......still lost

[jefwest]

Alright guys, I'm finally a memeber that is allowed to post!!! I passed my 3 day probation with style....Anyways. Here's a breif rundown of my situation. I have 4 .bin files for an SVCD copy of a nice movie that shall remain nameless due to legal reasons. Now......I extract the .mpg's with gnu vcd tools (as a side question, i'm sick of using the gui, and i've tried all combinations of options and read the --help option of vcdxrip many times.....still lost on that so i'm stuck with the gui version unless you guys know of the options...i thought it would be vcdxrip -b /Volumes/A/thefile.bin /Volumes/A/ ...........but that's a whole nother issue...anyways). So i get the .mpg's out. I now have 4 svcd 480*360 .mpg's that will play in quicktime. So, now I WANT THEM ON DVD! Well here's what i've tried, many thanks to kai for the advice.......I've tried exporting as mpeg2 with the .jpg trick in quicktime, DSP won't read the file and quits when i try to preview it, i've tried authoring it directly with ffmpeg, just joining all of the .mpgs with moremissingtools and then inputing that file into ffmpeg and having it create the video_ts folder.....NO GO, so i tried demuxing the LARGE .mpg into video and audio and then remuxing as DVD in ffmpeg, then importing into SIZZLE, well sizzle will only accept demuxed audio/video, well from the gui at least i dont' know enough to use it from the command prompt....tocgen/ifogen/etc. seem to be really confusing for a person of moderate unix experience like myself)........THEN, as last resort, i demuxed each of the individual svcd files, put each audio/video as a track in sizzle, so it was 4 tracks total, and hit make.....VOILA....SUCCESS.......well sort of......i put the dvd in the player and I have a couple beefs A) I can't fast forward more than 2 minutes without it stopping completely B) i can't skip tracks, i thought i made 4 seperate tracks? the apex even says track 1 of 4, but when i hit next it jsut stops (i have read other people have had trouble with sizzle and tracks...).....SO BASICALLY, is there anyway to work with my one big joined .mpg, the 3.2 gb one, and convert it into a form that Dvd studio pro or even Spruce up (i Have vpc as a last resort) will read so i can put chapter markings on certain points and author it with a nice menu and stuff? HELP IF YOU CAN!!! You guys are the best, sorry about the breif novel here but i've had a frustrating last 2 weeks reading/googling/vcdhelping/and encoding all to really no avail........i want to convert my whole svcd collection to good dvds............

[sublemon]

Way ahead of ya. Now I don't have a freeware solution for you but since a guy I works for owns Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio Pro 1.5 I did it this way.

I extracted the MPGs using vcdgear.

Used FFMpegX to demux into m2v and mp2.

Converted sound to AIFF with Quicktime.

Dropped in my four movie clips to FCP.
-> I had to use the option 'Scale to Sequence' which is under Modify.
-> You have to do it for all clips

Dropped in my four AIFFs. There is MINIMAL difference between the length of the sound and movies. ~4 frames.

I hit the render button, made a sandwich, went to work, came home and played guitar for about two hours and it was done (G4 933Mhz w/512 RAM)
YOU WILL NEED 40 GIGs TO RENDER!

After it is all rendered export the movie to MPEG2. This happens in realtime, so how ever long your movie is it will take that long to export.

Drop your new m2v and AIFF into DVDSp. Viola!

A couple of side notes...

The AIFF is about 1gig in size because it is raw sound. If you can demux the sound into two mono channels (I used Peak DV which came with DVDSp) you can re-encode it to AC3 format and the sound file will be 500 megs and give you more room for a higher bitrate MPEG.

Hope this helps a little. Sorry I have no freeware solution.

[pants]

well dsp won't ever work, casue it can't handle 480x480, it can do 352x480 but just not horizontal 480.

have you tried ffmpegx or missing media tools to author the dvd?

pants

[jefwest]

oh ya i've tried ffmpeg, trust me on that. I have tried every freeware solution there is just about.............Still lost. I will try that Final Cut pro/DVD studio solution but i'll have to clear up some of my 140 gb hd's to get some room! thanks for the effort though!