Best way to convert a Divx movie to VCD?

[ellandry]

?

[oNikke]

I've never tried it, but if you load it in Nero and burn it, it'll encode it for you first, then burn it. Should work fine.

[maxqa]

Just use TMPGenc, and burn with Nero........nothing could be simpler !

[oNikke]

Actually Maxqa, you CAN'T do that, which makes divx so annoying to re-encode. TMPGenc will only do the video from most divx movies, citing the "compressed audio" as something it is unable to read. You'll need a different program to re-encode divx, or you'll need to do the video + audio seperate then remux to sync, or you could burn it w/ the divx + the audio source...lots of different things, all annoying

That's why I'd suggest just letting Nero encode it and see what happens.

[Stinky]

Oh my.... does anyone search this forum for answers anymore - or look at the guides????

DivX to VCD -- VirtualDub and TMPGEnc

extrat the audio out of the DivX with VirtualDub (with full processing mode)

feed the DivX and the Wav (that you just extracted) into TMPGEnc ... and select the type of VCD you want to do.

TMPGEnc is so good I can "cut" the DivX into Disk1 and Disk2 (for say an 2 hour movie) right in the "source range" options ...

my end results are AS GOOD as the source -- near DVD quality (I'm doing xSVCD's)

but if you drag your DivX into Nero and burn it you are left with a sub-par - nearly unwatchable VCD - sure it convets - coverts it into crap

please search these forums - there are GUIDES on the left for ALL of this.

audio extraction:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubaudio.htm

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[maxqa]

oNikke

I'm not so sure your right about TMPGenc not being able to cope with divx movies. I can certainly do it with v12i, i was only doing one last night. I simply select the divx avi file in both the video and audio browse boxes. I create an mpeg-2 and then burn as SVCD in nero. Works a treat, and if you have a good divx the quality is excellent !

Perhaps I've been lucky and that all divx files dont work like this! You said you've never tried it...why not try ?

[vanillabox]

I convert ALL of the divx that I get in TMPGEnc and have yet to have a problem. If you are having a problem I suggest loading the most current version of Microsoft's Windows Media Player, and every Divx Codec you can get your hand on.

[oNikke]

I don't know, might be a different divx codec, but it never worked when I tried it.

Oh, and Stinky, I DOUBT you're getting near-DVD quality. Your source is hardly DVD quality being DIVX, even if it is a dvd rip. No matter what you encode it as you won't get any better than your source, and in this case the source is NOT DVD, but it's the divx file.

[KingJohn]

Hi

I think most of these problems relate to the fact that people do not install all the codec's available.

Installing a Divx 3.11 Alpha, and trying to convert an SMR or the New Mpeg4 wont work.

Take a look around this site, it does list "Some" codec's. When you download an AVI click your right hand mouse on it and select properties, this will tell you what was used.

You can feed a good DivX.avi into TMPGEnc and convert to VCD with the templates, no need to extract the audio or anything.

Planet of the apes, Tomb Raider the list is endless, downloaded AVI converted and burned... Just a few with bad frames, but not often.

part1.avi is around 200Mb a full movie around 150Mb will be a new Mpeg4 (not very good)

[Stinky]

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Oh, and Stinky, I DOUBT you're getting near-DVD quality. Your source is hardly DVD quality being DIVX, even if it is a dvd rip. No matter what you encode it as you won't get any better than your source, and in this case the source is NOT DVD, but it's the divx file.
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very high end DivX (high bitrate) with greater than 480x480 resoultion - done with 2-Pass VBR in TMPGEnc as 352x480 is NEAR (key word there) DVD quality ... the DivX's I've been getting are phenominal (and huge files I might add) --- but you shouldn't DOUBT what you haven't seen...

and I should add that my Pioneer DV-434 helps - it doesn't look as good on my RAITE ...

[oNikke]

Your definition of "near-DVD quality" seems to be much different than mine.

Anything that much less than an SVCD isn't even close to "near-DVD" quality. IMO

[ellandry]

Ok problem, i tried to onvert the 594 meg divx movie to mpeg1 VCD format but it comes out 1.06 gigs. Anyway to fit it to one cd but have good quality?

[abularkin]

Try Sefy's SxVCD(burn as SVCD) and SeVCD(burn as VCD) templates or Shizzzon's XSVCD template(both of which are located in the Tools section).
BTW Shizzzon, using your template and cutting the video bitrate to 590, which is unacceptable to most people, I was able to fit 6 South Park episodes (123 minutes!)onto one disk. I would have fit 7 but I missed it by about 15 MB. I'm pretty sure that the quality only seemed adequate because it was an XSVCD of animation, but I'm running some experiments on my DVDs too. Thanks to you and Sefy for your tremendous help in getting full length movies onto CDRs.

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[Betamax]

Converting DivX to (S)VCD isn't that difficult, but you must have (lots) of patience and a fast computer.
You must use VirtualDub to "recompress" the DivX to some other AviCodec. But because the audio in a DivX is mosttimes in MP3 this can give problems. So for that reason it's better to first save the audio seperatly in a WAV file and at a 2nd step save the whole movie to a recompressed AVI. For best results, I recomend to use MjPEG (PIC MJPEG) to store the movie, so you keep most quality.

After the recompression has been established, you can recombine the movie and the wav together (don't forget to set the video into 'streaming' and 'no recompression' first or you can wait again for a long time).
When this has been finished, you can fed the AVI to TMPEGenc which can encode to (S)VCD.
I recommend to encode to SVCD so nothing will be lost of the original quality of the DivX, using VCD will only decrease the size of the video!

[alexb]

Its actually very easy. I have converted more than 30 movies from Divx to VCD.
Install Kristal Studio Pack Codec on your PC.
Use TMPEGenc and select avi file as your video and audio.
It is also much quicker than DVD to VCD.
about 4 hours for the whole 90 min movie on PII 350.

[Operationz]

oNikke, you say it can't be done? I say otherwise.
every divx file I come across immediately goes into Tmpgenc, then I load the NTSC vcd profile, do my options and it comes out perfect everytime