Best way to create a SVCD?

[yosemite]

hi,

what is the best way to create a SVCD?

is that the

"DVD2SVCD" way (Most newbie friendly SVCD encoding program ever built, all-in-one solution, multiple audio tracks and selectable subtitles possible, fast and excellent in quality)

or the

"DVD2AVI" way (Powerful, can be used for almost anything and it's very flexible. IVTC, multipass encoding and other fancy things can be done, Dolby Surround downmix.)

And I dont wanna know what is the best way for newbies, but the best way at all ;)

[gerti67]

Hi yosemite,

you should really try DVD2SVCD and see all those possible settings in the different tabs. :)

or the

"DVD2AVI" way (Powerful, can be used for almost anything and it's very flexible. IVTC, multipass encoding and other fancy things can be done, Dolby Surround downmix.) Hmm, DVD2SVCD will actually do all that and fully automated. :)

Greetings,
Gerti

[Pko]

They are not really different... D2S *uses* DVD2AVI.

In fact, I think the best procedure is the one that D2S uses, and I do it like it, but not using it, when I have something that D2S does not handle well, like when you want to put 2 episodes of 20-25 min in one SVCD, for example, or when you want to convert 6 or 7 DVDs in batch (it takes some days, of course).

D2S does all you have said... only, you have less control if you have special needs.

But, quality-wise and, in the same quality, time-wise, D2S method (avisynth, decomb, CCESP, submux, vcdimager, etc.) are the best method, in my opinion.

DVD2SVCD is just a *frontend* (and a damned good one) for all that.

[NeWcS]

I my self use the the DVD2AVI method. DVD2SVCD has way to many settings and I dont want to have to look at the guide everytime I convert(2 to 5 DVDs a week). As far as the quality my rips are pretty close to perfect(If you didnt know better you'd think you were wathing a DVD) quality using TMPG w/ 2 pass.

But I have heard alot of good things about DVD2SVCD. I just know DVD2AVI better so I use that method.

[chainsaw135]

@Newcs
"I my self use the the DVD2AVI method. DVD2SVCD has way to many settings and I dont want to have to look at the guide everytime I convert(2 to 5 DVDs a week). As far as the quality my rips are pretty close to perfect(If you didnt know better you'd think you were wathing a DVD) quality using TMPG w/ 2 pass.

But I have heard alot of good things about DVD2SVCD. I just know DVD2AVI better so I use that method."


Someone that converts that amount of movies per week, would learn dvd2svcd in no time. Which would mean they would not have to look over a guide everytime they did a dvd.



"I know for me" dvd2svcd is way better then doing the manual way.
Since I do a few movies per week myself, it saves me alot of time and the quality is whatever I want it to be, you have full control over the quality settings and with it now supporting Tmpgenc just makes it that much better. Yes there is alot of settings for sure, but most of those settings are one time settings that each user would trigger for their own needs. So in reality the steps to creating a svcd is made much much easyer not harder.

[sykojester]

Hands down, DVD2SVCD is the fastest, simplest and most effiecent way to encode dvds I've come across to date. I rip a few dvds week too. Once you set settings that you prefer, they're stored with the program. All you have to do for a new rip is select the .ifo and click "GO" and come back the next morning. The greatest part is that it's updated virtually every week with bug fixes, enhancements, and more cool stuff... hell, even some of the programs are updated to the 'best' versions.

What more can you ask for? It's an all in one solution!@#$

There is no reason why any dipstick can't rip a dvd.

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[anarco]

is the best way IMHO, not that it is turning out brilliant quality
it also has nearly all options needed

what I miss is a better chapter setup

(fixed chapters are some solution but not very good...
something like the ulead DVD Movie factory would be cool, however
that one is only able to create menus instead of chapters though)

and the presets for the bitrates could be split up in smaller steps
(I recently ripped a 140 minutes movie to 3 CD´s and it wasn´t at the max possible bitrate cause I used the 125 to 165 minute setting... however the sVCD quality is still pretty good but 300 meg got somehow wasted ;) )

I know I could have calculated it myself but hey.. thats actually what dvd2svcd makes me happy - in MOST CASES I don´t have to do more than ticking 5 buttons and go! ... thats the way it should be

another thing is checking and fixing avi erros
for now I need to manually load into vdubmp3 and avidefreeze before I try to convert a divx... this could be automatically done by dvd2svcd ? :)

well... getting off topic
to sum it up, d2s is best because it doesn´t waste my time

[sifonjoe]

BEst way for simpliest create from DVD SVCD is DVDx, satisfactory picture and audio. I wirk with DVDx1.7

[poopity poop]

MY site at the end of this week will contain the DVD2AVI>avisynth>huffy>CCESP method and show EXACTLY how I create a DVD. It has many paths including tmpeg final encoding and many ways of audio resampling and normalization in a flow chart fashion. I think it will be well worth checking out because I feel it will be the absolutly most complete and explainatory way to encode SVCD's:

http://web.syr.edu/~tjmyers/ripping_home.html

Much better and explainatory than deathbybitrate's article. Like I said it won't be completed intil Friday no sence in looking at it right now :)