DVD2SVCD for future DVD compatibility

[waldok]

Hi,

One single question to the experts in DVD-R. I'm currently Producing X-SVCD with a 720x576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC) resolution. Will the MPEG2 streams be directly compatible for DVD-R When I get a DVD-R burner ? I selected "DVD compliant " in the advanced CCE parameters.

Thanks for your answers.

Oh another thing while I'm at it. I rip DVD movies that are supposed to be 720x480 in NTSC and produce, as I said before, 720x480 Xsvcd. There should be no resizing needed. Still, I can't select "no resize" in DVD2SVCD settings (or I missed the option) and it apparently performs a resize during the process (I selected bicubic and it appears in the avs script and the log file). Is there a way I can tell DVD2SVCD not to resize at all ? IS this what I should do ? Do I have to edit the AVS script after DVD2AVI or Before CCE ?

Sorry these were several questions finally.

Thanks for your help.

Waldok.

[gerti67]

Hi waldok,

just tick the "Edit when DVD2AVI is done" option in "Frameserver" tab and wait for the script window to appear. Then just delete the lines with the "Resize" and the "AddBorders" statement or comment them out by inserting a "#" right at the beginnig of the appropriate lines.

You can also use the "Edit as part of video encoding" option the only difference is that youhave to wait a little longer before you can edit the script - that's the only difference.

Hope this helps,
Gerti

[waldok]

I did it. THanks. Still I finally don't find the quality to be that great. The point is the movie I tried (THe others) have very few movements and is quite dark. Maybe that's why I found the quality so good. I tried 720x576 on a "fast movement" film and the quality was quite disappointing. No big surprise after I had quit logical and interesting explanations from some guys here about too many pixels to be encoded with too few bits available. Probably bitrate should be around 5MBits/s at least to get acceptable quality in all cases. and I don't want a movie on 18 Cds :D

THanks for you help though

Waldok.