DIVX to SVCD

[rsanto]

I'm trying to convert a DVIX movie to SVCD but it seems that it only works in 90 minute cd's.
i bought one but, apparently the film it ocupies 93 minutes.
is it possible to reduce the movie?

My Burner is a yamaha 4X4X16 and it only sees a 80 minute cd when a 90 is loaded....
can u help?

thanks

[zver]

Of course bud,use virtuall dub,and just set on;video on direct stream copy,which mean will be same quality,and put audio on 1 level down,example if is mp3 128k,make it 112,or for fine tuning use video bitrate calculator,or use cutting tool and cut 3 min of movie,or make it svcd with nero>>you can set the size manually to fit the disc or rate,or wait for another suggestion.If you are are waiting,in the meantime go to tutorials video section and checkit out,i always going by that since do not know nothing about video

[rsanto]

thx a lot

[ChickenMan]

Have a read of the DivX/MPEG/ to VCD tutorial but load the SVCD Template into TMPGEnc instead of the VCD one.

Dont use Nero to convert to SVCD, its quaility is quite poor. Use Nero for burning, not encoding.

The 93 min DivX will NOT fit onto a 90 or 99min CDR when converted to SVCD. You will only get about 45-50 min of movie onto a 74min CD, so follow the tutorial and cut the final MPG file in half using TMPGEnc and burn each half to a CDR.

[Data_Dan]

"Dont use Nero to convert to SVCD, its quaility is quite poor. Use Nero for burning, not encoding"

I got my hands on a 699mb divx version of Snatch. (I'm on dialup so I have to beg and borrow LOL) I used Virtual Dub to split it in half then used Nero to convert. It took 4 hours for each CD and the quality was not what I expected. I got roughly 47 mins/CD. The scenes were a bit jerky and pixellated when viewed on the TV via my DVD player. Is that the fault of Nero or possibly the Divx rip itself? I won't be doing much Divx to SVCD conversions in the future because of my lack of bandwidth but am interested in finding the best method just in case I come across some flics worth archiving. I have Vegas Video 3.0, Roxio Videopack 5 and Ulead Videostudio 6.0. for doing other video stuff(converting VCR to SVCD). Will these convert Divx avi to SVCD reliably?

[ChickenMan]

The DivX has to really good to make a good SVCD out of it, otherwise you will get pixelation problems. Jerkyness comes from the wrong frame rate. Dont convert the DivX from one form to another (like PAL to NTSC) and it wont be jerky. Thats assume the original was okay.

The latest ver of TMPGEnc has SVCD output much improved over previous versions and the general feeling is its equal to CCE in quality, just a bit slower.

Just load the AVI into TMPGEnc, select the appropriate SVCD template, change Motion Search to Highest Quality and hit encode.

Forget all those Roxio, Ulead, Vegas stuff and just use TMPGEnc, quality is substantially better.