Tutorials Update

ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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I've just updated the DivX to VCD tutorial to include a way of handling the latest wave of DivX encoded with either VBR MP3 or AC3 audio.

I've also included a short tutorial on how to convert a SVCD to VCD for those that have found their DVD Player wont play SVCD's.

Enjoy.
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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Oh, I forgot to mention, I have also included in the DVD to SVCD tutorial a way of improving TV episode and CG cartoons result and have also included how to run DVD2SVCD in Batch mode when you want to convert more than one movie at a time.

Enjoy.
 
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dropzone

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Chickenman I have a question for you. I asked the question of how to change svcd to vcd and you told me to use this method

. Demultiplex the MPG file with TMPGEnc (Simple De-mux in MPEG Tools section)

2. You end up with a m2v (Video) and a mp2 (audio ) file.

3. Convert the mp2 file to WAV (I use GoldWave, just load in mp2 and save as a WAV, stereo, 16bit and at same freq as original)

4. Copy the attached mpeg2 pluggin to your TMPGEnc folder.

5. Run TMPGEnc, loading in the m2v file for Video and the WAV file for Audio, select the appropriate VCD Template (PAL for a PAL SVCD, NTSC for NTSC one), change in Settings the Motion Search Precision to Highest Quality (Very slow) and hit Encode. You may also wish to Normalize the Audio level. Sellect the option in the Settings/Audio tab and set to 100 and let it search the WAV file for its recommended setting.


This method I used and then I saw your tutorial that you just poosted saying to use Tmpeg in a different way. Ok the question finally is. Which way is better for quality? I tried them both and it seemed the first way that you explained to me that I have posted above seemed to output a better quality vcd than the way in the tutorial. Now I think that you would know better than I on the quality, but I wasn't sure if you had left out this method or if you thought that the method in your tut's. was just plain better. Thanks again and I am ever looking to your wisdom.
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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Good question, I was wondering how long it whould take for someone to raise it. :D

I have used both methods for SVCD to VCD and came to the conclusion that the final quality is almost the same but maybe the TMPGEnc with Pluggin was slightly better. Audio is better. However, I have had many sutiations where the last 2 seconds of audio is missing and I have not been able to overcome it. The whole method is somewhat messy having to handlle the audio separately as well.

The DVD2AVI/TMPGEnc is so simple with almost identical results and ALWAYS works 100%, then that is the method I chose to publish.

Maybe I should add the alternateive way in a bit more detail as well and let the user decide which is easier for them. Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,
CM
 
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dropzone

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Yeah I guess I could see your point on the fact that it is easier. So far I like the quality with the way that you first described to me better as I have not had the problem yet with the audio being missing, but I will definitly watch for that now. I converted Lord of The Rings(which is the best svcd that I have ever seen, including the ones that I make through dvd2svcd. Anyone know which proggie that was made with by any chance?) this way and also Harry Potter with nothing but success. I wish I could clean them up a little more but I guess that is all I can do. Thanks for all the help again.
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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To further eliminate a step in the original method I posted, just demux the SVCD mpg file with TMPGEnc and then load the video file *.M2V in for video and the *.MP2 file in for Audio. No need to convert the MP2 file to WAV if using TMPGENc Plus 2.5x. Hope that helps.
 
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