(VCD) divx - What is this please?

[Ruth]

I have a file which is a [DivX-Eng] (VCD divx).avi

I'm not sure what the VCD bit is?!

I can watch it perfectly, as is, on my Div-X Player on the PC but what I would
like to do is to convert it to a DVD. Is this possible and how would I
go about it please?

I see the Audio is: MPEGLAYER3 (mp3) (0x 0055)

I tried using TMPGENC but the format was unsupported.

Hope I have given enough information.

Thanks. Ruth.

[Baldrick]

Try DivXtodvd.

For tmpgenc problems read www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc#problems

[Ruth]

Try DivXtodvd.

For tmpgenc problems read www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc#problems

Thank you for your help and by making modifications to the Environmental
Settings in TMPGEnc I was able to encode this time.

However, life was not meant to be easy! and I found when this had been
done and I loaded the appropriate files into the TMPGEnc DVD authoring
programme my files amounted to 8527MB and of course the DVD's
capacity was only 8026MB.

Would you be able to give me any advice as to how I can resolve this
new difficulty? Thank you.

Ruth in OZ.

[waheed]

DVD Shrink

[waheed]

Unless you're planning to burn to dual layer disc (which are expensive), you'll be looking at compression the dvd down to 4.37GB to fit on a dvdr.

[mats.hogberg]

...or use a bitrate calculator to find what bitrate to use when encoding to make it fit your media. Much better than encoding at some random (too high) bitrate, then shrink it to compensate for your error.

/Mats

[Ruth]

Unless you're planning to burn to dual layer disc (which are expensive), you'll be looking at compression the dvd down to 4.37GB to fit on a dvdr.

Thank you for your comments in both messages.

Ruth.

[Ruth]

[quote="mats.hogberg"]...or use a bitrate calculator to find what bitrate to use when encoding to make it fit your media. Much better than encoding at some random (too high) bitrate, then shrink it to compensate for your error.

I did in fact use the Bitrate Calculator which came up with 3597, I
deducted 50 for "chapters" and ended up with a total of 3547.

I still ended up with far too big a file to fit on a DVD!

Based on GSpot, the original file [DivX-ENG] "title" (VCD divx).avi specs
were as follows, hopefully that can clarify my problem.
VIDEO
Size: 734 MB
Aspect: 320 x 224 (1:43:1)
Frame: 29.97
Bitrate: 552 kb/s

AUDIO
Codec: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Bitrate: 66kb/s (33/ch, stereo) VBR

I should point out that I need this in PAL for Australia not NTSC

Once again, would appreciate any comments you care to make.
Thanks, Ruth.

[mats.hogberg]

If I do this calculation, I get 5635 as video bit rate, using 224 kbps audio.
One problem I see with this source is the VBR MP3 that TMPGEnc has serious trouble with (besides that it's really really low bitrate, and will sound, well, awful). That could explain why TMPGEnc misses the intended target size by so much.
I suggest you decode the audio to wav, and use that as your audio source (AVI as video source) in TMPGEnc.
This seems like a VCD that has been reencoded to AVI (no telling what the source for the VCD was!) and that now will be once more reencoded as DVD - Simply not the ideal material qualitywise! Is it really worh spending any effort on?

/Mats

[Ruth]

[quote="mats.hogberg"]If I do this calculation, I get 5635 as video bit rate, using 224 kbps audio.
One problem I see with this source is the VBR MP3 that TMPGEnc has serious trouble with (besides that it's really really low bitrate, and will sound, well, awful). That could explain why TMPGEnc misses the intended target size by so much.
I suggest you decode the audio to wav, and use that as your audio source (AVI as video source) in TMPGEnc.
This seems like a VCD that has been reencoded to AVI (no telling what the source for the VCD was!) and that now will be once more reencoded as DVD - Simply not the ideal material qualitywise! Is it really worh spending any effort on?

Thanks Mats for all your help. You are perfectly correct, I suspect a
crummy video to begin with and I will cut my losses and forget all
about it - having said that, at the very least I have learned a lot, thanks
to you and all the other gentlemen on this Forum.

Goodnight!

Ruth in OZ.