CVD??

[flobbo]

Has anybody ever successfully encoded a CVD? If yes let me know which software was used and how it works. I have tried to follow the available guides but none worked for me. My results were always crap.

[kenmo]

Since Christmas I've been encoding on average 2 CVDs a day. I've used the Tmpgenc templates for CVDs here (Tools section).

[flobbo]

Can you explain to me how you made that magic happen? I can't get it to work. My resolution is always messed up.

[macleod]

what is your source file? I have made approximately 140 movies in CVD and it has worked flawlessly EVERY single time.

Has anybody ever successfully encoded a CVD? If yes let me know which software was used and how it works. I have tried to follow the available guides but none worked for me. My results were always crap.

When you say crap and your results, I wonder what your source file was. If it was a DVD, I would recommend downloading dvd2svcd (www.dvd2svcd.org). It is a no brainer application that takes the guess work out of making fantastic quality CVD's without having to know all the "geek" stuff. I have a sorta how to guide on one of my websites at

http://www.dewayneward.0catch.com/videoindex.htm

This has screen shots for making CVD and VCD movies. What you'll need and some information on it all. I use cinema craft encoder 2.50 in my examples, but with dvd2svcd, when/if you use TMPGENC, it is very intuitive so you should be able to figure it out.

If, however, you are doing tv caps or something, there is a whole host of things to look at, which I cant answer from what you have put in this post.

You answer you question from a DVD copy perspective:
1. DVD2SVCD
2. Nero - to burn resulting bin/que file

[flobbo]

I dont't really like dvd2svcd since it does not give me a lotta control over what I do with my movie.
So far I have tried different DVD material (pal and ntsc) for making a CVD and the results were always bad.
I rip the DVD with smartripper, then frameserve with dvd2avi, and then encode in Tmpeg using the puertorican138 cvd template.
The problem is that I have some kind of mosaic grid in my movie when I play it on my TV, may this be because I have a widescreen tv? Well, even vcds look better though because they have the regular blurriness expected from a vcd but not the strange cubic grid

[Spicuzza]

flobbo wrote

Has anybody ever successfully encoded a CVD?

Yes, I really like that format.

I capture 352 x 480 uncompressed AVI from my Canon Hi8 camcorder with an ATI AIW 128 Pro card using Ulead VideoStudio 6.

Then I do all my editing, encoding and burning all from within VideoStudio. Encode settings are 352 x 480 frame size @ 2500 kbps and 160 kbps joint stereo for audio.

An interesting side note is the fact that my son's DVD player would play a compliant VCD but absolutely nothing (X)VCD and it would not properly play a compliant SVCD but plays the CVD with the above settings flawlessly. Needless to say I was extremely happy to find a format with great quality that would play in both machines.

[macleod]

I rip the DVD with smartripper, then frameserve with dvd2avi, and then encode in Tmpeg using the puertorican138 cvd template.

Have you tried to do it without puertorican138's template. The basics for CVD is that the resolution for NTSC is 352x480, bitrate not to exceed (I believe) 2600bps, and 44.1 mhz audio (I personally use 48mhz because my dvd will play them). It may have something to do with the template.

I dont't really like dvd2svcd since it does not give me a lotta control over what I do with my movie.

From what you told me about what you do, dvd2svcd will do that plus a lot more. If you make menus or something, you can have the final product be an mpeg and then you can do whatever you want with it. I suggest dvd2svcd, 1 because it is an awesome program, and 2, after people use it that are having a problem with making CVD's, they use it to help them troubleshoot. Basically, if dvd2vcd makes the same DVD rip look perfect, then something is flawed in your manual process. Could you try it with dvd2svcd and then post back with your results. From what you have told me, I think it may have something to do with the template, but without getting off my butt to look at it, I cant swear to it as the template may be just changing the resolution to 352x480.