SVCD encoding

[FreeMovies]

I have an svcd and t wont play opn my pioneer dv-440. The bitrate is WAY to high. Therefore, I want to reincode the svcd to a vcd but I cant figur eout how. It seems as if any prog i download doesnt recognize the format. I finally got tmpeng to see the video, but it wont recoginize audio. Can anyone suggest or link me to an easy ot use prog where i can either extract audio ( tried virtual dub etc.. Movie is mpeg 2 i think and nothing seems to want to recognize) or that will encode video and audio to what i want. thx. If anyone knows why tmpeng wont see svcd audio that would be a help too

[adam]

Go to mpeg tools in TMPGenc and do simple demultiplex of your mpg. This should give you the video stream and the audio stream. Play the audio stream and right click and view its properties. If its 224kbits than it is vcd compatible, svcds and vcds both use mpeg1 audio layer II. Encode your video to mpeg1 and when your done multiplex it with the audio stream, again using mpeg tools.

If the audio isnt 224kbits then get winamp. In the options set outfput to diskwriter and play the audio stream you demultiplexed out of the mpg. This will convert it to wav, which you can load in TMPGenc and convert to 224kbits.

Note this is just for compatibility, you can encode your audio at whatever bitrate you want but you will be making an xvcd and playback won't be guaranteed.

Also, many Pioneers cannot playback svcds with peaks above ~2.5mbits. You don't have to convert to vcd if you don't want to, all you have to do is re-encode it with a lower max bitrate setting, keeping it as a svcd.

[FreeMovies]

yep you hit it on the head. I figured that out about an hr aftrer i posted. First, i needed to get new version of tmpeng. Then if finally loaded it. After that i mutiplexed and am now making it an svcd ntsc. The problem is my damn pioneer 440 doesnt like pal svcd. itll play Ntsc and pal vcd but guess not a pal SVCD.. so im in process of fixing that. I just have one question, do u think that downgrading would affect quality a lot. I am keeping it svcd but i was just wondering on that issue. Thx

[adam]

Yes, assuming the svcd you have is of decent quality then you will still preserve a great deal of quality keeping it at typical svcd bitrates ex: above 2mb's per sec, as opposed to making it a standard vcd.