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pacohaas
23rd March 2002, 10:26
See if any advanced users can provide insight here:

DVD in question: Rat Race Special Edition R1
Special Feature in question: Calls to the Actors

When viewing this feature, a screen with some actors' pictures and names shows up and you can click on them to hear their phone call. The video doesn't change except for the actor's picture is highlighted while their audio is played. As such, there is no stream to choose in DVD2SVCD, so I'm left with the 3h24m51s ac3 that I was able to extract from VTS_02_0.vob My plan is to stick these phone calls at the end of an "extras" CD and create SVCD chapters for each phone call.

I have captured the picture with the actors names and want to somehow have the image displayed for the entire length of the audio. I'm thinking it will have a video of very low bitrate and audio probably 96 since it's just phone conversations anyhow. So I guess the question is this: How can I create an SVCD video stream from an image that will last for X amount of time? and also, what bitrate would you recommend for a single non-moving image?

I believe this is what DVD2SVCD does for the title and change CD pictures, each lasting 2 seconds. I could then take the image I've captured and create images with each actor highlighted to be displayed during that actor's "chapter"

Any ideas, suggestions would be greatly apppreciated.

pacohaas
25th March 2002, 07:44
Originally I started doing this with a similar avs file that DVD2SVCD generates for the titlepicture and changepicture, but with the 2 frame parameter changed to meet the length of the audio, but that was taking up way too much bitrate and not looking good. I'm now doing what I should have done in the first place before posting here: learning TSCV. Please don't follow my example when posting a question, whether it seems hard or easy.

smiller667
27th March 2002, 00:53
Learning tscv might be the way to go ... if you feel it's too buggy, perhaps have a look at vcdimager itself.
Basically what should be possible is an mpeg still (not a stream) with an audio stream. This is definitely doable for VCD (WinOnCD's music album feature works like this) and should be similar in SVCD. Check this thread for proper SVCD still creation: http://forums.vcdimager.org/viewtopic.php?topic=131&forum=2&1