SimonSez07
10th December 2001, 03:03
i have been creating SVCD's using the following process:
SmartRipper 2.40
DVD2AVI 1.76 (Decode Audio to WAV file)
AVISynth (using MPEG2DEC Plugin)
- resize/crop
- letterbox
CCE 2.50 (Encode Video using MultiPass VBR)
PULLDOWN.EXE
Panasonic MPEG1 Stand-Alone Encoder v2.51 (Encode Audio to MP2)
bbMPEG v1.24.18 (Multiplex Audio/Video)
when i use this process to create standard 480x480 SVCD's everything goes smoothly, but when i do fullscreen/pan&scan movies, i often want to create non-standard 352x240 SVCD's (i do this to avoid having to use more than two cd's to attain decent image quality, and i find this superior to creating VCD's at the same resolution because of the obvious advantages in MPEG2 and VBR). when i use this method to create MPEG2 files at that resolution with CCE, i get screwed up video streams right out of the encoder before even muxing or burning. i know the avs file i fed into the encoder was clearly 352x240, but powerdvd seems to think the resulting mpeg2 files are 352 x 288, and plays the video with a bar of black (or often screwed up colors) at the bottom. sasami2k cannot play it correctly either. it screws the size up even worse. after burning (w/ nero 5.540), my JVC standalone dvd player plays it fullscreen w/ no bars or distorted stretch, but the image is a little vertically shaky.
any ideas what could be wrong? is some mpeg program stream information recorded incorectly or something??
any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
simon
SmartRipper 2.40
DVD2AVI 1.76 (Decode Audio to WAV file)
AVISynth (using MPEG2DEC Plugin)
- resize/crop
- letterbox
CCE 2.50 (Encode Video using MultiPass VBR)
PULLDOWN.EXE
Panasonic MPEG1 Stand-Alone Encoder v2.51 (Encode Audio to MP2)
bbMPEG v1.24.18 (Multiplex Audio/Video)
when i use this process to create standard 480x480 SVCD's everything goes smoothly, but when i do fullscreen/pan&scan movies, i often want to create non-standard 352x240 SVCD's (i do this to avoid having to use more than two cd's to attain decent image quality, and i find this superior to creating VCD's at the same resolution because of the obvious advantages in MPEG2 and VBR). when i use this method to create MPEG2 files at that resolution with CCE, i get screwed up video streams right out of the encoder before even muxing or burning. i know the avs file i fed into the encoder was clearly 352x240, but powerdvd seems to think the resulting mpeg2 files are 352 x 288, and plays the video with a bar of black (or often screwed up colors) at the bottom. sasami2k cannot play it correctly either. it screws the size up even worse. after burning (w/ nero 5.540), my JVC standalone dvd player plays it fullscreen w/ no bars or distorted stretch, but the image is a little vertically shaky.
any ideas what could be wrong? is some mpeg program stream information recorded incorectly or something??
any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
simon