DVD2SVCD with CCESP 2.70 - CBR 6kbps? No way around?

[Colmino]

DVD2SVCD seems to be a wonderfully automated piece of work. However, it doesn't directly support CCESP after 2.50, and I think I've encountered a conspicuous consequence of this lack. Regardless of what settings I choose from within AVI2DVD, CCESP tries to spit out a single-pass 6kbps CBR result. That won't work.

So... what am I missing? ;p

I also encountered a problem where DVDAuthor failed to run.. though I have read that unchecking "do not convert audio" will fix this. I'll try it soon (the original audio is actually already MP2). But hopefully I won't have to encode another useless CBR file just to find out.

[manono]

Hi-

I haven't made an SVCD in years, but Doom9's Guide to DVD2SVCD seems to contradict your notion that CCE versions newer than 2.50 aren't supported and that you're forced to do a CBR encode:

When using CCE greater than 2.50, you must use EclCCE and specify its path rather than the path of the CCE executable....Then select Multipass VBR with at least 3 passes, and 5 passes as maximum. Higher values won't really improve quality anymore. Personally I chose 4.

That's about half way down the page on encoding:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvd2svcd-basic.htm

The whole guide (which has links to various sections) can be found here:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvd2svcd.htm

The guide for the AVI2SVCD portion eventually links to the DVD2SVCD guide as many of the settings are the same:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvd2svcd-avi.htm