I'm have some dificulty encoding a ripped anime from a DVD into SVCD format. I've searched the fourm and found other people that were also having probelms with not just encoding a certain anime but anime in general. It seems that after reading posts on this site and a few others that anime is notoriously hard to rip and convert to SVCD, or any other format I would think. I picked up on some things that i thought could possibly work to make the SVCD but I've waisted 5 CD's in the process. I know that when making the .DV2 file and the .WAV using DVD2AVI that "forced film" needs to be turned off. That didn't make any difference in the final burned version as compared with forced film turned on. (The movie has a FPS of 29.970, NTSC only goes up to 94%. The guide I was reading told me to turn it on, but the guide was based on doing a "Hollywood" film movie not an anime). I learned from a partial guide on some site that with anime "forced film" needs to be turned off no matter what. Now with that figured out, I made my .DV2 and my .WAV and proceded to use TMPGEnc to encode everthing together. Here's where I got horribly confused. I loaded my .DV2 and my .WAV and loaded the "SuperVideoCD (NTSC).mcf" template, not the "film" version of course, and went in to configure all the settings. I don't think the "rate control method makes a difference but I used "2-pass VBR(VBR)" so I was able to obtain the best quality. Now I think the "Encode mode" is what may make a difference. I think that the first and maybe second times I tried I had it set to "non-interlace". I have no idea what it's suppose to be for anime... But the last few I tried I think I had it set to "interlace" which made no difference when i watched it on the DVD player. In the "advanced" tab I had "video source type" set to "non-interlace (progressive)" which I belive anime is, non-interlaced. And I think the "field order" was "Bottom field first (field B)" the "source aspect ratio" was 16:9 as shown to be by DVD2AVI, so that wasn't a big mystery. I hit start, encoded it (a small part of the whole movie anyway, as i thought it wouldn't work and I wanted to save time) perfored the header trick because my DVD can't play SVCD right out, DVD player still didn't play it. The video was studdery like all the previous versions of settings on encoding I had tried. I found yet another site that said that using "inverce telecine" might work... it didn't. So i'm all out of options, and any help would be appreciated, or possibly some links to a complete guide that explains how to do an anime DVD to SVCD.