best VCD encoding program

[Dionysus]

I want to take suggestions from ppl out there as to what the best encoding program is for making SVCD/VCD. Currently I'm using TMPG and it's half decent, I hope it's not the best, but I can't use CCE becuase of the Xmpeg crashes on my computer everytime and i've dl'd from several different sites and none seem to work so... suggestions would be great. thanx ppl.

[nitro]

Originally posted by Dionysus
I want to take suggestions from ppl out there as to what the best encoding program is for making SVCD/VCD. Currently I'm using TMPG and it's half decent, I hope it's not the best, but I can't use CCE becuase of the Xmpeg crashes on my computer everytime and i've dl'd from several different sites and none seem to work so... suggestions would be great. thanx ppl.

Currently I do the following

1. Rip with SmartRipper
2. Extract audio to wav file with Graphedit
3. Use DVD2AVI to create project file
4. Use VFAPI reader to put a wrapper around it
5. Load vfapi output into virtualdub.
6. Add whatever filters are desired
7. Load wav file into virtualdub
8. Switch on full processing and convert from 48 to 44.1
9. Start frameserver
10. Load TMPGENC
11. Source is the frameserver
12. Load whatever template you want
13. Hit start and wait a few hours...

[NeVeRLiFt]

I second that.
TMPGEnc is very good for encoding to VCD/SVCD.

[Dalamar]

This may be a quality thing but that a lot of steps.

1. DVDDycrypter or Smatripper - 30 min
2. create a project with SVS2AVI which creates a .d2v file and a 1 gig .wav file - 10 minutes
3. I start TMPEG point the video source to the .d2v file. Point the audio to the .wav (TMPEG has the vfapi plug in loaded)
4. add filters to crop, select vcd template etc
5. press start - 7 hours

It gives me complient VCD. TMPEG will comvert 48 to 44.1 when you select the vcd template.

The cool thing about this is you can create two TMPEG projects each with half the movie batch run them and 6 - 8 hours later you have both halves. Easy on time, easy on disk space.

On my machine which is nothing flash I can rip from DVD to burnt VCD with covers in about 8 hours.

Now I know the way with more steps may do better sound, (I have never done it that way), but I get excellent sound. I would love to be proven wrong but VCD's I thought gave around sterio sound only which is what I get.

Regards
Dalamar:cool:

[ookzDVD]

I use TmpgEnc for all my DVD->VCD conversation,
so far the quality is superb for me.

[twistee]

I use TMPG, its fast and simple...although i wish it was a bit faster. But the quality is good. I pretty much do it the way dalamar does it, unless the movie has subtitles (then i frameserve from vdub).