Settings to try out on DVD2SVCD.

[Fred Finkle]

Have you tried the following settings on DVD2SVCD.
I have an Athlon XP 1700+ and it encodes around 0.8 to 0.9 with the following. Try for yourself and see what you think ?

DVD2AVI
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Lum. Offset(Brightness) =18
(1 Pass VBR encoding seems to produce a darker picture than multipass.)

AUDIO
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Audio Bitrate to 224 with downsample from 48 to 44.1
(Miss this out if you want to cut out on some time.)

FRAME SERVER
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BicubicResize bvalue=0 cvalue=0.75 (Default)
TemporalSmoother Strength = 4 Radius = 1

BIT RATE
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Max=2530 Min=300 (Tick Min Average=1600) Max Avg =2230
(All CD sizes to 800MB) (More or less its the default bit rate settings.)

ENCODER (With CCE 2.50)
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One Pass VBR (Tick Create vaf File)
Image Quality Priority = 5
Q.Factor = 5
Tick Anti Noise filter = 10


I'm no confessed expert, but after encoding Shrek, from Multipass VBR x 4 the picture quality looked no worse with the above settings. In fact there was less jumps in the picture. It might not be crisp enough for some perfectionists though ? Looks good on my Sony Wide screen.

[2man]

you should try another movie since my backup of Shrek in VCD is per

[Fred Finkle]

I've encoded Mel Gibsons pay back..
and The Others - Nicole Kidman

Had a lip sync problem in the others, but set is to safe frame serving and this seemed to be ok.. Chapter 3 missed out some frames and this set it out of sync ? (Encoding time went from 0.9 to about 0.7) Still quicker than Multi pass.

I've tried a few guides.. Baker CVD. usual DVD2SVCD stuff.. but the above appears to give good results without multi pass encoding..
Try it... if you dont like the results.. forget it.

[Fred Finkle]

After trying out my SVCD encodes on my fathers DVD player I dropped the max encode bitrate to 2520, and didnt encode with the advanced function 16:9 anomorphic in DVD2VCD.. Does work with Wharfedale M5 player.. i.e. Wide screen flag..

Changed DVD2AVI Lum. Brightness to 16 and enabled safe frame encoding on the encoder tab.

Recently tried Cartoon encoding with CCE..many rookies have found not much joy in this area.
Surley there must be an acceptable method of encoding to stop the old jaggies ?

I guess my new born son will just have to watch Walt in Jagger fashion ?

I'm suprised nobody has written a guide for encoding animation.. Probably due using illegal software perhaps.. Patchers etc.. on CCE...

[adam]

Your image quality priority is way too low. You should be using something closer to 22-25. The less bitrate you use the higher image quality priority you need to use or you get mosquito noise.

[BJ_M]

After trying out my SVCD encodes on my fathers DVD player I dropped the max encode bitrate to 2520, and didnt encode with the advanced function 16:9 anomorphic in DVD2VCD.. Does work with Wharfedale M5 player.. i.e. Wide screen flag..

Changed DVD2AVI Lum. Brightness to 16 and enabled safe frame encoding on the encoder tab.

Recently tried Cartoon encoding with CCE..many rookies have found not much joy in this area.
Surley there must be an acceptable method of encoding to stop the old jaggies ?

I guess my new born son will just have to watch Walt in Jagger fashion ?

I'm suprised nobody has written a guide for encoding animation.. Probably due using illegal software perhaps.. Patchers etc.. on CCE...

tmpgenc does a better job with animation ... though ive seen some settings for cce that came out vvery nice ,, but generally tmpgenc will do a better job with the animation setting and getting contrast level correct first ..