Best Way to Convert DivX to SVCD

[mjh07153]

Hi,

I'm new to all this and I've read the various guides etc. but with no luck.

I have a perfect DivX film at 720 x 480 and 23.979fps. Now I understand that the fps is'nt standard and can convert that I think??? but whenever I convert to Mpeg I get poor quality. I've tried TMepEnc, Panasonic and Virtual dub as descrided in the guides but with no luck.

All I'm interested in is quality I want to get a 2 hour film onto 2 CD's that will play in my shiny new DVD player.

The other problem is the film is widescreen and whenever I encode it comes up being squished. Very annoying.

Any advice would be great. If not the best applications to use to do this

Mark

[akhenat0n]

It's normal, you can't fit 60 minutes of high quality mpeg2 on a cd
(SVCD 2520kbps)

Try with 3 CDs, that way you'll have a higher bitrate, better quality. This is what I did with Lord of the Ring, and the result is perfect.

If you really want it on 2 CDs, try encoding in mpeg 1 VCD or XVCD (if your player support it), you can easily fit 60 min per CDs and the quality range from acceptable to great.

I'm new to all this and I've read the various guides etc. but with no luck.

Try harder, I learned everything with these guides and the ones from doom9.org

[El Torro]

hmm, the 2 hours film on 2 (74min) CD's in good quality? Forget about that...

You can make 2 VCD disks, but the quality of that isn't too good. So you'll probably want to go for the SVCD... An SVCD can contain 30-40 Minits of high quality Video


Ok, now, here's wut i suggest...

You UNCOMPRESS THE AUDIO WITH VDUB

You open TMPCEnc, below you click on the LOAD button, and you dubbelclick on the template: SUPERVIDEOCD(23.976Fps).***

Now, you click on settings: In video tab: RATE CONTROL MODE: CQ(constant quality), now ask the settings of that. Move the bar to the most right corner, and see that in the white box, you see "100" Click OK

next tab: Advanced:
Make sure you have GHOST REDUCTION, NOISE REDUCTION and SHARPEN EDGE enabled...

Click on ok, and start ENCODING... You will have an MPG file, without the necesary player, you won't be able to watch it on your comp.. but you can find info about that on this site.

Start nero, and drag the MPG file you made to the SVCDindex
and you're done

Good luck
(hope i helped ya!)

[Gargoyle]

Use LeeBears' guide: http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/111846.php

[Nico...]

Personnally for CQ I use 1800 as minimum, 4000 as maximum and CQ 65. I can output 60 minutes a disc with very great quality. If you want I can send you the template I use for my SVCD??? Never had any complaints about it!

[mjh07153]

Thanks for responding guy's.

akhenat0n it's not that I'm being lazy but I suspect it took a lot of trial and error to find the best application and settings to use. And there doesn't seem to be a definitive "This is the best way to create SVCD from DivX" solution, just several different solution which may all be equally as good.

Nico, thanks for offering, I've sent you a private message with my email address on.

Thanks to vcdhelp for this site and forum -

Mark