Encoding question

[Vice]

Last night I saw screens of the Lord Of The Rings (1st film) encoded to SVCD and the quality was outstanding. Could someone tell me how to get the same quality + wich program I should use for it. I don't care about the amount of cds to use

[davemcg37]

to rip a dvd you need "dvd decrypter", flaskmpeg and the divx codec. this will give you an avi movie in divx format. you can then use virtualdub and tmpgenc to create a vcd (2 discs generally) that will play in most dvd players

[kinneera]

If you want the highest possible quality SVCD, Divx should not be involved at all. Rip it using Smartripper or DVD Decryptor, and frameserve from the VOBs to CCE.

[davemcg37]

how do you bypass the divx stage in making a svcd and will it work for vcd's as well?

[dtoolman]

For SVCD use DVD2SVCD and TMPGEnc. Usually 2 -3 cd with supurb results. It is very easy. It takes 6 -10 hrs on my Pentium 4 2.2 It is almost all automatic while you sleep