A bit of guidance converting a Divx to CVD...

[Miang]

Well, the source file is pretty good quality, considering, and I have done a couple fairly successful SVCD discs, which worked pretty well other than that the TV tends to crop the picture quite seriously (Or maybe the DVD player? I kind of suspect it might just be recognizing 'Video CD' and chopping off any extra bits of resolution from that)...

Anyways, I did try a fairly quick CVD test using TMPGEnc at SVD resolution (Kind of a shot in the dark that that would be how you would make one) and it did seem to work, not only that but the picture ratio was actually *correct* for once.

So, for this experiment, I would like to do this one as well as I can.

The source file for this movie is 352 x 240 at 29.970 fps 23 minutes (Using VD's file-analyze lovely feature). When loaded into TMPGEnc it seems to automatically decide upon using a "4:3 525 line (NTSC, 704 x 480)" aspect ratio. The only change in my test from the default SVCD settings otherwise was changing the resolution to 352 x 480 (CVD default NTSC resolution).

Beyond making it look at nice as I feasably can, I'd also like to fit two such clips to a disc, if possible. The size prediction for a constant bit rate clip amounted to about 460 MBs but I'm thinking that using a variable bit rate would probably shave off the extra size needed to allow two on an 800 meg CD while not compromising quality overmuch, either.

The sound's a little bit worrisome, for some reason at 22 khz. It's not bad or anything, but it does seem just a little bit tinny in some places. The test did sound a bit better on the DVD player than as a file on the comp but if there's anything else I can do here...

Any other considerations I should keep in mind or things I might have overlooked?

[SatStorm]

If your source is 352 x 240 at 29.970 fps you gain nothing by boosting it to CVD/SVCD.
Better choice do a standard VCD or an xSVCD. Try sefy's SxVCD templates, if they work on your standalone, I believe is the best choice you have!
Otherwise, VCD.