DVDx - This little 'GEM' Rulez

[Blondes Anonymous]

Hi, being this is my first message, I would like to say I really enjoy this forum, it has been quite informative and very helpful....

My stand-alone DVD player will play standard VCDs and some XVCDs but I always found the quality of those formats somewhat lacking. It would not play any type of SVCD or miniDVD which meant I could not use a higher quality video format or so I thought....

After reading some of the remarks regarding DVDx, I decided to give it a try and after some tweaking was able to write a very high quality XVCD (near DVD quality) without any sound sync problems, video glitches or any type of digital artifacts (not even a hint of a macro-blocks or color blotching) which would play in my stand-alone DVD player....

So now I am curious if this format will work for other brands of stand-alone DVD players which do not allow the SVCD and miniDVD formats but do support the XVCD format....

Have fun.....

I set DVDx as follows:

Input settings - Angle=1, Use ASPI (Checked), Keysearch=Once, 48Kz=High quality, Volume=1, Offset pixel=0,
FrameRate Output=23.976 (matched to the VOB), Detect Progressive 24hz (Checked), iDCT=FPU(Best Quality)
Exit

Output Settings - MPEG Specific=VideoCD MPEG1, Video Bitrate=2376, Audio Bitrate=224, Motion Search=Good, Calculation=Normal (Best Quality), FPU (Best Quality),
Rate ctrl padding start=60, Rate ctrl padding max=90, muxrate=1.58, resolution=352*480, Zoom=Full (16/9 or 4/3 input), Resize filter=BiCubic, Max Frame=10000, Volume Don't exceed=730, Render every=15.
Exit

Note: There seems to be a bug in the DVDx's MPEG2 encoder. I found that if one varied from the 480*480 SVCD norm, when the encoding of the VOB was finished DVDx would report a 'cannot find where to write into the MPEG file' error, oh well, guess nothing is perfect....

[N8theGr8]

im about ready to start some dvd ripping..how much could you fit on the XVCD with those settings?

[orbit7]

blondes, have you attempted the same settings with tmpeg? you may be surprised at the quality you will acheive. dvdx is promising and i emailed the author and is looking at a vbr option shortly which will make the program alot more interesting.I wouldnt consider xvcd near dvd quality due to the half res displayed. its a shame you dont have svcd playback because using dvd2svcd with cinemacraft would blow you away with its near dvd quality playback