How long does it take from DVD to SVCD

[icemanatvcd]

I have a pentium III 733mhz, with over 500mb RAM, I am using DVD2SVCD version 1.03 (I think, the latest). How long does it take for this whole thing, it is my first try at this. I left it overnight from 8:00pm to till 10:00am (next morning). It was still going till it crashed! Grat feeling!I can not believe it!

Is there a better way, I am sure there has to be? FlaskMPEG seems a lot quicker. Please contribute to this topic.

Thanking you in advance.

[Kdiddy]

please do a search through the forums and find needed information...time depends on a LOT of variables during the encode process...there could be a number of reasons this is happening..if you dont get specific you wont get a lot of help...but I suggest search through old topics on here...for I am sure you are experiencing something has been covered before

[zebidee]

I have a PIII 700 with 512Mb 133SDRAM, and 7200 RPM IBM drives, so nothing special. I rip from DVD with Smart ripper - 15 minutes, convert to 'avi' (.d2v file extension) with DVD2AVI - 30 minutes, convert to SVCD MPEG2 with tmpenc - it takes me around 3 hours for each SVCD I convert (650MB)approximately 65,000 frames, usually 3 SVCD's of very high quality are required. Grand total is 9 hours in 3 hour stints. I have not yet tried the DVD2SVCD option, will try tonight...

[icemanatvcd]

Thanks for that zebidee. 9 Hours seem right. If you try DVD2SVCD please let me know how long it takes you. I will be very interested to know. It took me very loooong time and crashed in the middle. I know FlaskMPEG takes about 9 hours also on mine but the quality I been told using CCE 2.5 encoder is a lot better. I do not know whether that is fact or not.

Look forward to your feedback.

[Vejita-sama]

CCE does give a better MPEG2 encode, then TMPGenc (for MPEG1 I think TMPGenc is better). CCE is also MUCH faster. I can do multipass VBR=3 (ie. 4 passes) in CCE faster than 2pass VBR in TMPGenc; and I get a better quaility encode.

I've never had any problems w/ DVD2SVCD save for subtitles. What error/problem did you run into? I assume you took there advise and didn't touch your computer at all while it was running (turned off screen saver and virus checks too).

You can use CCE as your encoder just like you would use TMPGenc, so just play around with both and see what works best for you.

[dvd2svcd]

@Vejita-sama

Could you try the latest 1.0.3 build 4 on one of those dvd's you have subtitle problems with. I have made a few changes in that regard. If it still fails please mail me, cause I'd really like to fix that bug.

dvd2svcd

[icemanatvcd]

OK I will try the new version of 1.0.3 build 4, I have been using Build 3.

Apart from crasing problem I finally managed to run and it said all finished in about 10 hours. So I was so pleased! Then I realised that it did not image the whole image and when I tried to use the CDRWIN or Fireburner they both found errors in the file at some line 13. Great was not it! Does anybody know how to fix this problem.

For additional information I been trying to convert the Assassins (PAL Australian Version).

It has been very frustrating and fruitless excercise. I am just about to give on DVD2SVCD. No offence to the team of this programme, it is a great idea but it has to work, I do appreciate their hard work.

I will post the results of the new version soon.

[icemanatvcd]

Correction to the above post, the second paragraph should be that "it did not image the whole movie".

[blipp]

you can edit your own posts, by simply pressing the "edit" tab..

[StudeBarc]

Icemanatvcd, As a fellow Oz person I can recommend the Smartripper, DVD2AVI, TMPGenc path as the best and failsafe path for good quality SVCD. Multiple pass VBR and other quality tweaks available it just plain works very well! And it's all "public" stuff as well.

[icemanatvcd]

Thanks for that StudeBarc. I finally got patient and gave DVD2SVCD a go with their new version. I figured out the reason why it so long was because I did 4 passes with the CCE 2.5 when encoding (around about 20-25 hours with CCE 2.5 alone!).

I must admit the end result was quite stunning! I can not tell the difference between a SVCD and a DVD! The sound was great as well. Amazing!

I recommend if you have a lot of patience then go with DVD2SVCD with 4 passes. If you want to come time by probably by half then do 2 passes. I reckon the quality will still be better than TMPGenc.