how do i make a standard SVCD on a mac?

[behoovedgirl]

every SVCD i've tried to make on my mac doesn't work properly in my DVD player. either it wont play at all, or the tracks wont work properly.

it's not the SVCDs themselves, because they play in my boyfriend's DVD player perfectly fine.

nor is it my DVD player, because the SVCD's my boyfriend makes for me on his PC using Nero play just fine in my player.

this makes no sense. how can i exactly mimic whatever Nero does to burn SVCD's on my mac?

[major]

You should again explain step by step what you exactly do to make a SVCD on your mac

[AntnyMD]

This is what I do:

[a] Rip a DVD into pieces that will fit on SVCD-sized discs using DVDExtractor or YADE, in OS 9 (not Classic).
[b] Convert pieces to Quicktime using the Motion JPEG A codec, and MacMPEG2Convertor (its faster that similar convertors), in OS X. I resize to 480x480 here and force 24fps if its film (29.97 if its not). I also de-interlace at this step.
[c] Convert audio to AIFF using mAC3dec, in OS X.
[d] Use Quicktime 5 Pro to add the AIFF audio to the Quicktime video created in [b]. Use the 'add scaled' option.
[e] Switching back to OS 9, I use Astarte M.Pack 3.5.1 to encode the Quicktime movie with audio as a 480x480 MPEG-2 file, at a bitrate of 2.5Mbps, and also create the mpa audio track, at 224kbps. Encoding at 480x480 is slow. M.Pack spits out two files when done: an .mpv with your compliant video, and an .mpa with your compliant audio.
[f] Returning to OS X for the final steps, I use MPEGMissingTools to multiplex the mpv and mpa files to a complaint SVCD stream.
[g] Continuing to use MPEGMissingTools, I create a simple XML file that contains instructions on how to build the SVCD, for GNU VCDImager.
[h] Open the XML file in vcdToolsX so that it can create your Toast-ready CD-ROM XA tracks. If you have only one SVCD MPEG clip in your project, it will kick out three .img files. Ignore the one with the word "pregap" in the filename. The other two are important for the final step.
[i] Start up Toast Titanium, and tell it you're making a CD-ROM XA. Add your vcdToolsX-created .img files in order, starting with file01.img, and so forth. Burn these .img files to a blank CD. Select 'write disc' (not 'write session').

This disc is a compliant SVCD and should play back in any SVCD-compliant player. To put your mind at ease for the first try, do a short clip, like a music video or two. If you want to get into menuing and PBC of your SVCD, you can use MissingMenuGen (I think thats what its called).

[behoovedgirl]

ok...

in os X

1) i put the footage into imovie and edited it

2) exported the footage as a .mov

3) booted in os 9 and encoded the .mov into an an mpa and a mpv using the SVCD settings template on this page: http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/svcd10.html

4) booted back into os x, and muxed the mpa and mpv into a single mpeg2 file using mplex in MissingMpegTools.

5) i generated an xml script using vcdxgen in missingmpegtools

6) created .img files from the xml using vcdxbuild in MMT

7) burned the .img files (not including pregaps) in order, in multitrack XA mode in toast 5

*alternatively i've tried steps 5-7 in VCDtoolsX, using many different combinations of methods.

none of the SVCD's i've made with this method will play on my SVCD compliant DVD player, but they DO play on my boyfriend's. SVCD's he's made on his PC will play on both of ours. what gives?

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[AntnyMD]

Are you opting for 'Write Disc' (aka disc-at-once) in Toast, or are you selecting 'Write Session'?

[behoovedgirl]

write disc

[major]

try to burn the sample SVCD images available at http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcd.htm

either directly with cdrdao, or with Toast by first chunking the bin file into XA tracks by using FireBurner on Virtual PC

this should help you find which step of your SVCD process is not acceptable for your DVD player

[Ross]

behoovedgirl: what brand of DVD player is this?

[behoovedgirl]

Major- i tried those downloaded samples, burning the .cue in CDRDAO, and it produced the same result as all my other SVCD's. my dvd player thinks it's a CDDA disc, and just tries to play it for about 5 seconds, then stops.

Ross- it's a Sampo DVE-611. it's multi-region, and is supposed to support DVD, CD, VCD, SVCD, MP3 CD, and CD-RW playback.