Can you do AVI>VCD in DVD2SVCD 1.10 build 1

[Wam7]

I noticed that when you click on the mpeg-1 option under Misc that the title changes to AVI2VCD. Would I be able to convert to a PAL 352x288 VCD or just an mpeg 1 SVCD at 480x576.

Regards

[markrb]

Please read and search the forum before posting as this has been a heavily talked about subject here. Continue to do this and you will be issued a strike.

It is very easy to do AVI->VCD conversion and you have been able to do it for several builds now.

Make sure you have the latest version of DVD2SVCD which is 1C right now.

Go to the misc tab and click on load settings. Manuever to the DVD2SVCD directory and select the VCD-Settings.ini file.
Change DVD to AVI and you should have all the correct settings ready to go.

Mark

[Wam7]

Thanks for the info. Very much appreciated! A few salient points;

1. I read the conversion guides but there was no answer there.

2. I read both FAQ on the DVD2SVCD Basics Topics but didn't see anything in them to answer my query.

3. I did a search for "AVI VCD" in titles and got 15 matches with nothing mentioning the info you gave me. Just basically TMpeg which was what I using before.

4. I did a search for "DivX VCD" in titles and didn't find anything in the 30 matches.

5. I did a search on "AVI DVD2SVCD VCD" in entire posts but found nothing in the 22 matches there.

6. I did a search on "DivX DVD2SVCD VCD" in entire posts and of the 22 matches I found reference to using DVD2SVCD to convert to VCD using the .ini by Chickenman but that was it. (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36611&highlight=divx+DVD2SVCD+VCD)

If I've overlooked something glaringly obvious please point it out to me (I'm far from infallible). I've only posted 3 queries, prior to which I thoroughly searched the forums and read the available guides and FAQ's.

As a 'newbie' I think I've done a little bit of leg work before posting. If I missed something it was not for want of looking. I don't think something that was 'heavily talked about' was very intuitive to locate and to issue me with a warning of a strike against me, from my perspective, was totally uncalled for.

Perhaps one ought to do some investigation before issuing veiled threats. Notwithstanding, I'm still very grateful for your reply.

Regards

[markrb]

Sometimes the simple approach is best.
I just did a search on VCD alone and got about 4 good hits with info on how to do it, although not as detialed.
When time permits I will add it to the FAQ and the Q+A.

Mark

[Wam7]

The simplest thing to do is to post your query without doing any reading. I take it that's why Doom9 has a delay in posting policy after membership, to prevent people following the simple approach.

I should point out that those weren't the only searches I did but the refined ones. After using any search engine for years you learn that you have to refine your searches to the germane issues. I was dealing with mainly DVD2SVCD, VCD & AVI. Just searching for VCD alone in the titles of all forums brings up 244 posts and in the VCD & SVCD I get 155 posts. For entire posts 1418 and 659 respectively.

I'm sure you can appreciate my query didn't just involve VCD so searching for just that would bring up a majority of things not related to my question. Trawling through these posts would not have been an economic use of time. You know exactly what you are looking for, hence it would have been a lot easier for your keen eye to discern.

My query wasn't a broad one but specific, therefore there would be specific details mentioned in any solution. I searched for these criteria but could not readily find a solution

As I believe you suggested; BTW, if you see somebody making a post who has obviously not read the Q&A or FAQs don't be mean spirited. Instead, just put a link to this post. I would encourage people to do this INSTEAD of answering as that just encourages poor behaviour. After a while newer folks will get the point without the need to flame and no feelings will be hurt.From your initial response to me you stated that I had not read or searched the forum. Surely in response you should have linked to the above mentioned post?

Like you, I don't like being wrongly accused and therefore demand satisfaction (pistols at dawn etc) ;)

If you could give me links to the 4 relevant posts you found, I would be interested to see what I've missed and how I've missed it in order to ameliorate my future searches. Although as your stated intention, if it was clearly set out in the Guide or FAQ you wouldn't be wasting your time reading this now!

In spite of my slight pique I am very appreciative and indebted to you and others for your continuing hard work on this forum

Kind regards

Wayne

[markrb]

Chill out. It's not good form to try to show up another member and this is also against forum rules. Simply having said I did try a search would have sufficed.

My second post was saying that if you had done a simple search instead of a more specific one you would have come across several hits on the subject. It was informational only and not meant as a slight. It is best with this search end to start broad and then narrow down instead of the other way around.

I also said when time permits I will put the information in the FAQ.


Mark

[Wam7]

I am chilled... it's 1°c (33.8°f) here.

You may have also noticed my joke about pistols at dawn...

Not jumping to conclusions is what was really needed. Then, when this was pointed out to you a simple acknowledgement, that you may have made a mistake would have gone along away. Not the "Moderators Intransigence Syndrome" which seemed to be your attitude.

If you had just said "why didn't you search the forum" you would have got the simple reply "I did". No, you went on to sayContinue to do this and you will be issued a strikeThis, the fact that you were showing me up, is what solicited my verbose diatribe!

Considering I'm a newbie I would have thought a little patience and 'moderation' may have been applied. I'm all too well aware of the reposting of the same problems and the need to stamp it out but you could always have threatened me (wrongly) by Private Message that way the desire to defend and redress my public humiliation wouldn't have been evoked. :D

I have no more to say as I'm fresh out of big words. In closing, my overriding feeling is one of gratitude for your help. So let me finish with a BIG THANK YOU!

[Linux]

Originally posted by markrb
Please read and search the forum before posting as this has been a heavily talked about subject here. Continue to do this and you will be issued a strike.
Maby the hole thing about moderating is'nt about telling people that they will be erased as members the first time they have broken a rule.
I think two good rules that is missing in the forum rules is;
1. Dont answer at all if you dont know the answer.
2. Dont answer at all if you are irritated about the question.

In this case markrb gave a correct and easy answer.
Why bother to give the warning about striking.

By the way, what does "issue a strike" mean anyway?
It sound just like you will be shot in the head if I see you first.
:)

[markrb]

Maby the hole thing about moderating is'nt about telling people that they will be erased as members the first time they have broken a rule.
If you happen to read the set of sanctions a strike is not erasing a person. You get three after all. And in this case a strike wasn't even issued only a warning that in the future one maybe.

Why bother giving a warning?
Isn't the whole point about a warning so somebody won't do it again or someone else will see it and think twice before doing the same thing?

By the way, what does "issue a strike" mean anyway?
In the forum rules set of sanctions you will find your answer.

The Number 1 problem we have here is repetative questions and many of them every week. It's a waste of the forums time when a simple search would have solved the problem. These rules did not just come about overnight. We have been working and refining them for over a year.

Although harsher (I could have left out the strike part) then intended I still go by my first post. The answer has been given before and a search with the correct words would have found it. After his response I tried to search myself and using his words I did not get a hit on the subject, but when I simplified it I did. I agree that sometimes it's hard to search correctly and that this boards search engine isn't the greatest, but it does work. Since this point I have added these questions to the Q+A so their should be no further need of this question.

From time to time people come up and complain about the way we work it here, but it hasn't changed yet and I doubt it ever will. We want to stay number 1 and to do that we need a tight ship. We don't care about number 1 in posts, it's number 1 in quality we want.

If the answer is easy enough I try to answer the question even in a warning post if I have the time.

Mark

[chainsaw135]

@linux his job as a moderator is to moderate the forum first, answer questions second. I see nothing wrong with the way markrb answered wam7 he gave him the answer, but in turn asked him to search a bit more next time and not only that but read a bit more, as it sits now working with dvd2svcd isn't a hard project. But when people like you linux make false statements about striking "Maby the hole thing about moderating is'nt about telling people that they will be erased as members the first time they have broken a rule." and make something out to be what it's not, just to get your 2 cents in is a bit uncalled for.

The whole thing about a moderator isn't for you to worry about nor to tell us what it should be about. If you want to worry about moderating i suggest you get your own forum and be a moderator, but at this site your comments about moderating is not called for and i warn you not to keep up such course or i will take action against you.

[Linux]

Cool down markrb and chainsaw.

My two rules where ment for real and I did not mean as making fun of markrb´s first answer.

As markrb pointed out, the best way to keep this forum at an high quality level is tho weed out stupit question by makeing some kind of FAQ that everybody can read. Searching the forum is one kind of FAQ.

You missunderstood my "rules".
What I was getting at is sometime people ask question in stupid way.
I think the best way of weed out those is to not answer at all.
I have seen in many topics one question (stupid/incorrect/something missing) which leads to 5 followup question that say;
"What a stupid question or can you describe better since I do not understand".

It was only the question about striking that was meant as a question about the moderating.
My rules was more or less meant as a possible ammendment.

My letter was not a flame towards moderators.

Beeing a moderator is like beeing a police.
You can break the rules to make other follow them.
If everybody that not are a moderator followed "my two rules" there would be a lot less noice in this forum.

And to heigthen the quality the sometime high noice must go down.

[mrbass]

For those who can't abide by doom9's forum rules your simplest solution is to venture over to vcdhelp.com forums. It's chaotic over there. Lot's of good stuff and intelligent people with intelligent answers, theories, etc. However, at the opposite end of the spectrum you have threads that have been pounded more than 50 times or more. When I do visit over there I do end of wasting needless time reading through questions that have already been answered 5 millions times.

@markrb and other mods....no need to defend, justify yourself. Just say "read forum rules" shall suffice IMHO.

[markrb]

@mrbass I am sure right now you are saying to yourself "Boy do I miss it." :)


Mark

[mrbass]

nah I don't say that (fringe benefits notwithstanding)....but to each his own I suppose. Regardless even though it seems "slower" nowadays commpared to a year or so ago. I'll always remember this is what caused DDogg to take his own life. May we ponder that and hammer it home.

http://www.dvd2svcd.org/Readme.txt
11 apr. 2002 version 1.0.8 build 1
THIS VERSION IS DEDICATED TO DDOGG, may he rest in peace.
On his tombstone it would say "DDogg was for dvd2svcd, what Louis Armstrong was for jazz"
Let us all have one minute silence.
And in all the videos you encode with this version there'll be a watermark which says "We will not forget you, DDogg"

[ChickenMan]

To answer Wam7 original question, I'm sure you have read this thread from your search http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28893 and if you want to see a step by step tutorial based on how to do it (unfortunately none are posted here at doom9), then have a read here http://www.cdrbase.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17356

[waldok]

My 2 cents ...

Markrb, If you remember well, I once or twice found there are more "diplomatic" ways to moderate a forum than threatening newbies. After all, what was the point of creating a specific "basic topics" forum if no newbie can ask anything without being striked ?
It takes more time to flame a newbie or warn him than to point him to the right direction.
I agree that rules must be followed and search engine must be used (great tool by the way), but hey, community is also here to help isn't it ?

I personally find that moderators sometimes tend to act as if they were invested with a divine mission.
Guys, didn't you ever start something from scratch, remember when you were a total newbie, didn't know where to search, what to do ? There will always be someone out there to flame you for a question you found legitimate. So...
My feeling is some mods are perfect newbies as far as human relationship is concerned.

(And I don't say anything about "mods disciples", always ready to say amen to what the leader says, no matter if he is wrong of right...

Well yes, I'm pissed today. Things happen.

Waldok :devil:

[markrb]

waldok pretty simple you don't like it leave. This has nothing to do with you and was all taken care of. All you are doing is trying to start trouble. Keep it up and you will be the one striked.
I am a very diplomatic person, but you have about exhausted my patients here.

Again if you don't like the way it works around here go elsewhere. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Mark

[chainsaw135]

Originally posted by waldok
My 2 cents ...

Markrb, If you remember well, I once or twice found there are more "diplomatic" ways to moderate a forum than threatening newbies. After all, what was the point of creating a specific "basic topics" forum if no newbie can ask anything without being striked ?



Waldok

No one was issued a strike so again some people like to start rumors or make things up so they can have their 2 cents put in it and in this case i'd say your 2 cents is worthless.


"Well yes, I'm pissed today. Things happen."
Well i'm not pissed off today actually i'm in a good mood thats why your only getting 1 strike, and your right "Things happen" as you would put it.

[Linux]

Maby there is a need for a third DVD2SVCD forum.

"DVD2SVCD for dummies"

:D

just kidding

[waldok]

Markrb and Chainsaw,

Thanks for just confirming what I said.

You used the classical argumentation of extremely open minded people : if you don't think like me, just leave... and any other opinion is immediately considered as 'trying to start a flame war'.

Alright then, I was not trying to start a war, but merely to point at a certain growing tendancy of this forum, where I think a bit more tolerance could be used. But you obviously don't accept contradiction, do you...

OK, you've got the power here...Wow. Great.

Waldok

[markrb]

In all my time here I have given out 2 strikes total. Make that three now. It's enough. It's over. Don't like it leave. At this point you have earned youself 2 strikes on this one thread. One more and you are suspended.

Since this thread has nothing to do with the original thought anymore it will be closed.

Mark