MPEG-2 conversion

[Gaara of the Desert]

I’m using the TMPEG DVD converter, and will be putting on 6 episodes of a show onto a DVD. They are 24.36 minutes long and are 219 MB each. I want to convert these episodes into MPEG-2 with good quality. What steps would I have to do in order to get these results?

[dafreak]

VIDEO TAB
Stream type: MPEG-2 Video
Size: 720x480 (for NTSC)
Aspect ratio: 4:3 Display
Frame Rate: 23.97
Rate control mode: 2-pass VBR
Rate control settings: 3900 average bitrate, using 224 kb/s ac3 audio. I always leave max and min bitrates at 8000 and 2000 respectively.
VBV buffer size: 0 (automatic)
Profile and level: MP@ML
Video format: NTSC
Encode mode: 3:2 pulldown for 23.97 fps source
YUV format: 4:2:0
DC component precision: 10 bits
Motion search precision: motion estimate (fast)

ADVANCED TAB
Video source type: this will usually change on it's own depending on the avi.
Field order: Bottom
Source aspect ratio: depends on the source, but for avi conversions you can just leave it at 1:1 display.
Video arrange method: This setting is tricky but for our example the aspect ratio of the source file is 640 x 480. I've learned that center (keep aspect ratio) works the best. When you encode, it looks like you'll have a frame around the video but when you burn and play on your TV, it should come up full screen.

GOP STRUCTURE
I pictures: 1
B pictures: 4
P pictures: 2
All three of these numbers were gathered from the bitrate calculator. If unsure, you can just leave it at the default of 1, 5, and 2 respectively.

QUANTIZE MATRIX
cg/animation for anime.

PS> Are you converting naruto episodes?

[Gaara of the Desert]

Nope, i'm doing the Chobits series... But those will work for each episode?

[dafreak]

yep, if you're going to put 6 episodes onto one dvd-r.

i usually put 6 episodes on the first disk and 5 on the remaining disks for a 26 episode series.

[dafreak]

chobits has 27 episodes so i would go with 6-6-5-5-5.

for the disks with 5 episodes, you can use
4650 kb/s (average) with 224-256 ac3 audio
leave max/min at 8000/2000

gop structure should be
I/P/B
1 / 7 / 1

[Gaara of the Desert]

Thanks for the help

[dafreak]

what release of chobits are you converting?
or which fansub group?

[Gaara of the Desert]

From Kick Ass Anime or KAA for short...

[dafreak]

cool, well that release only has 24 episodes.

[Gaara of the Desert]

I hit a snag... The Sound file for the Authoring Program needs to be converted to AC3(DD) and I'm thinking of using Besweet/BesweetGUI

[Gaara of the Desert]

The Audio files are MP3

[Gaara of the Desert]

I need to convert these last MP3 files for me to finish my DVD. Can anyone help at least!

[steveryan]

I use ffmpeg.