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[Ubiq]

Hi all,
as stated in the subject I am not as much of an expert in SVCD and more anything done before was with TMPGEnc.

I did a few test with CCE 2.62 and had these two problems. Hope someone can help.

1. I can load an .avi resized from Vdub only if saved uncompressed. If in VDub I apply huffyuv compression CCE comes up with the "Read 0 expected 8..." problems. I read about itin some other post but here it doesn't appear to be same situation. Suggestion? Raw uncompressed avis are HUGE.

2. I followed the guides for my testing (Doom9 & VCDHELP, thanks both!) and my understending was that the "Aspect ratio" parameter should be set according to the source material aspect ratio (that should be what reported by DVD2AVI in preview). Now, testing with "TheCell" (reported to be 16:9, interlaced by DVD2AVI) I can get positive result only using SAR 1:1 and DAR 4:3 (they produced the same result in aspect ratio). That is: all but what I expected to work according to the guides.


My process:
a. Rip with CaldDVD (old rip now use SR)
b. DVD2AVI to a .d2v & to extract audio
c. resize in vdub. SAVE an avi. No frameserve in CCE2.62.
d. audio in TMPGEnc
e. encode in CCE
f. mux with bb
g. author & burn TSCV

BTW I am really impressed by the CCE performance and it's a real tempation even if I hate both logos & crackware...

Thank for any suggestion

Bye

[Deathman]

Hi

When encoding for SVCD always use 4:3 aspect ratio ... alot of dvd players cant handle 16:9 SVCDs and will play them really badly.. ( as in play them with wrong AR or off centre etc...)

As for the problem with CCE not reading the avi's im afraid i cant help as i only use CCE SP 2.50 wich will accept virtually all AVI's .. 2.6 has alot of problems with any non standard AVI's.

I hope this has been of some help... :)

[Ubiq]

Hi Deathman,

thanks 4 your answer.
I know about always use 4:3. That's what I discovered on my skin...

BTW I am wondering why the guides report to set the parameter according to the src (i.e. what reported by dvd2avi).
Indeed reading the CCE manual it appears to be related more to the TARGET ar.
In tmpgenc too i used to set always to 4:3 while setting the src to the dvd2avi report.

My test was also related to verify my DVD player ability and even if it can "eat" any kind of not standard VCD and even miniDVD it's true it's not able to handle in AR in MPEG streams encoded to 16:9.

Bye