My first SVCD and how I did it. (Very Good Results) Comments

[syzygytec]

Hi. I'm new here and new to (S)VCD and every other format and technology discussed herein, although I've been into DivX for a few years now.
I followed Sefy's Newbie guide and alterered it a bit to include some of the methods I use to make DivX's.
Here is how I made my first SVCD.
Ripped my DVD with smartripper.
Decoded with DVD2AVI 177.3 as instucted in Sefy's guide.
Inputted the dv2 file into Gordian Knot 0.26, I would not accept the dv2, so I made another with DVD2AVI 1.76 which works with gknot. No matter 177.3 will demux the audio as suggested in the guide as 1.76 will not.
Now in Gordian Knot, I cropped and resized as I do for my DivX movies, then created the avs avisynth frameserver file, choosing SVCD and adding Neutral Bicubic resize filter.
Now I opened TMPEG 2.59 inputed the .avs instead of the .dv2 and followed the rest of the guide through to the end doing a 2 pass VBR instead and authoring with VCD Easy 1.13 and burning with CDRDAO 1.17 through VCD Easy and had excellent results.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
Thank You.

[Super Warrior]

I use the Easy VCD program http://www.eazyvcd.tk/

It uses a bunch of those programs you mentioned above.But everything is automatic and it rips and encodes all by itself.

I get nice VCD and XVCDs with it.Though when encodeing to SVCD or XSVCD,things are nice looking but get real jerky when alot is happening onscreen.Not sure why

[HeatoN]

eazyVCD is probably the best making VCD/XVCD's but when its comes to SVCD/XSVCD it gets jerky, i would recommend DVD2SVCD to make SVCD's

[syzygytec]

Sounds like you both had bad results with EasyVCD on SVCD. I'll look into DVD2SVCD, if they have a fully functional trial available I'll give it a try.

[Super Warrior]

DVD2SVCD is free.But it looks REALLY complicated with all its many settings.Sheesh!

It would be neat if there was some strait-forward guide around,saying which is the best possible settings to use for each feature.

[jolo]

Star Warrior,

I know exactly how you feel. You want simple and reliable. Especially simple. I do't think DVD2SVCD is simple at all either. There are some really heavy duty people on hear and what is simple for them isn't so simple for others.
The focus here is so much on quality, that many tend to use 4-8 products on their encodes and have their PCS run from 8-24 hours per movie.

No critisicsm of that, but I would first try EazyVcd. It is TOTALLY free, but it does use TMPG, which charges for SVCD encoding, but does give a full 30 day trial. It is a one-click solution and for me, it has produced the best looking VCDs, I have ever seen.
I have had some great results with it on SVCD, but also have had a couple which were a little shakey.

I would go to their site and give it a try.

[dvd2svcd]

Hmm, does this not sound simple:

1. Insert the DVD
2. Click the little CDRom button
3. Click Go and Select Rip and Convert

That's how easy it is when using dvd2svcd. Don't let the massive options overwhelm you, for the most part you don't have to touch the default settings.