DVD2SVCD Please give me your opinion

[The Incredible One]

Hello DVD2SVCD,

I've a question about the next thread that was post
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a quicker way to encode svcds with great quality
i give credit to Ddogg for posting a very similar way along time ago
however the search is messed up and i think people can benefit with slower machines.


i know that this has been talked about before and it has been brought up recently, but for any newbie or someone who doesnt want to wait follow these tips.

ok under bitrate change your settings to so.
all your cd sizes change to 796mb
from left to right change the max bitrate to 2400, your min bitrate to 1900, uncheck your min average(i dont use it) and lastly your max avg. to 2250. leave all the other things checked as they are default.

now to the cce tab. choose a 1 pass vbr. change your q factor to 5
change your image quality priority to 5 as well.
leave everything else checked as it was by default.

also Ddogg reccomends to change your temperal smotthing settings to 2,1 this should help in faster motion on some movies. (i wonder if it helps in animation?)

lastly under your audio change it to 192 and do not convert it to 41
this is a waste of time, imo and the sound is just fine.

ok, thats it i guess. on my rig and hour and a half movie takes me about 2 hours and 15 minutes. granted i have a p4 1.7 and 256 rdram i want to up it to 512 though.
i realize that this might not work for you the same, i just want to help some people out who dont want to wait 20 hours to do a movie, and with this method, i achieve the best looking results that i have ever had. so far- that is =)
good luck,
and please post here with your results, maybe more and more will use this method in the future, maybe not....
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What is your opinion by this kind of converting. Some while I use DVD2SVCD and I always convert my movie by the way you advised (the guides). But I've tried this way of making a svcd and it goes very faster than the other method. Quality is oke but the faster scenes are a little bit blockie.
But I wonder what you opinion is about this method.

Thanks

[dvd2svcd]

Well, I don't care about the speed at all. I want quality, even if the encode takes 100 hours. The encoding is just once, but watching the movie is often multiple times, and every time I would see blocks I would kick myself for not using the optimum settings, which imho is the default settings.

[markrb]

I completely agree with DVD2SVCD. I never use the other method although I know about it and try to help people that have decided to use it.
You will always get a better encode with Multi-pass VBR. It's your own personal choice if the added time is worth it to you.
My friend refuses to get cable, even though he lives far away from the transmitter and gets a terrible picture, but he has decided that this picture is good enough for him. I have cable and in fact have digital cable that costs a ton. It's worth it to me for the better picture and more choices.

I spent around $350 to upgrade my computer for the only reason to get faster encodes. This is more of a fun hobby for me rather then a way to copy movies. I have done almost 100 movies and watched 1 of them fully through.

As you can see it's personal choice, but for me I choose better quality over time.

Mark

[kraven morehead]

i agree,
but when i put a a single pass vbr vs a multi pass,
i still find that the single pass looks just as good.
i mean, if you sit real real close to your tv you might see a block here and there, but i really cant tell a difference on my movies.
i wonder if you used a cbr, what would happen,
i would guess just a bigger file size when you have a finished movie.

[The Incredible One]

Thanks for your opinion! I converted a the movie Tomb Raider at the fast method and at the dvd2svcd method. My results are:

The fast method is good but at the action scenes I see little blocking in it. I must agree with DVD2SVCD regarding to the slow method. That movie looks a lot better.

So I stay by the settings of DVD2SVCD.

[Slick]

you know, video can be like photographs. no two people see the same!
it all depends on whether you look at the image or watch the content.
most people watch the content.

I tend to look at it the first time then watch it later.

I recently went round to see a friend of mine. when I got there his family were watching Shrek on video (new retail)
I was amazed at the total lack of quality. very Dark, no definition & sound was shocking.

they enjoyed it & didnt see anything wrong :eek:

If my Svcd's turned out half as bad as that I would pack it in. :)

Don't forget that burning too fast can also cause blocking!