Quick Question About Movie Downloads/Conversion..

[buzzrock]

2 choices--

1: Download a movie in Divx Format then convert it myself to SVCD.
2: Download a SVCD ready mpeg and then burn it.

I dont have a dvd-rom on my pc (yeah I know they are cheap now), but I am trying to get the hang of encoding/burning SVCd's..
So I am snagging some samples off of newsgroups just to test out different things.. And was wondering if its better to convert a divx to SVCD myself or just download a svcd ready file.
I downloaded a few samples of SVCD's (small sample file(not rar'd)), and they looked great. BUt I dont know if the whole bin/cue file would be as good.

Thnks
Buzz

[gll99]

You won't learn much from downloaded svcd except to know if they work in your player.

Converting various divx to (s)vcd should give you all the fun and headaches you will want and help you to learn how to use most of the tools of the trade.

If you want quality DVD rips though, buy a PC DVD(rom) and practice backing up your own DVD disks.

[LeeBear]

gl99: the sample should you download should be a representative of what the entire SVCD bin/cue image will look like, since most of the samples are just an extract from what you would get in the bin/cue. For your question on whether it's better to download the DiVX then convert to SVCD or just download the SVCD and skip the encoding. Well that all depends. Chances are the download SVCD will be better looking then what you will get from downloading the DiVX then converting to SVCD yourself. This is because you'll be going from DVD->DiVX->SVCD, where as the poster of the SVCD most likely rip it directly from the DVD->SVCD so there's less degradation from the lossy nature of encoding. If you want to practice encoding it's best you get a DVD-ROM and do some rent and rips for the best quality.

-LeeBear

[buzzrock]

Thanls for the reply's--- both were right on topic, and answered my question..