Here is my question. [Archive]

Waggles

21st May 2002, 03:08

I made VCD files.
I used
1CladDVD 2.0 and ripped the .vod filed.
2. I used Flask to change the flies into .avi 720X576
3. Opened Tmpge and changed the filed to .mpeg2 at 480x576
4. now I had to cut and Join them into two files to fit on one SVCD and I did that and watched them on my PC.

Before I burn them I have a few questions.

1. the quality is not the same as the .vod files is that usual and how can I correct this.
2. I have Gnot and I was wondering if I can take the .vod fiels on my harddrive and create that SVCD through that process.

3. I ceated an animated movie and is that the reason that the quality is not the same as the .vod original.

4. Will the movie's be smaller on the TV due to the change from 720X576 to 480X576

5. Do I have to do anyting further before I burn the new movie onto a CD-R and why is the audio softer in the new mpeg2 files

There I think I have covered all my basis and I am sorry if these and other questions have been covere before but I wantned to be clear on my questions and any and all e-mail will be of great help.

Thanks

Sam:D

aleksander

21st May 2002, 06:33

Originally posted by Waggles
I made VCD files.
I used
1CladDVD 2.0 and ripped the .vod filed.
2. I used Flask to change the flies into .avi 720X576
3. Opened Tmpge and changed the filed to .mpeg2 at 480x576
4. now I had to cut and Join them into two files to fit on one SVCD and I did that and watched them on my PC.

Why the hell are converting it to .avi first and then to VCD??? You will loose quality doing this since every reencoding always makes the quality worse. Something is not clear here - are you doing VCD or SVCD??? First you say that you're doing VCD then you say that you want to fit files on one SVCD (looking at the resolution it looks like you're doing SVCD)....
My suggestions here: Don't use CladDVD to rip. Try SmartRipper or DVDDecrypter. Don't use Flask (buggy and crappy). There is a lot of tools that can do DVD-(S)VCD conversion (like DVD2(S)VCD - the best around, or DVDx).

1. the quality is not the same as the .vod files is that usual and how can I correct this.

It's because you're converting the DVD to .avi first and then to VCD. Try to do this in as few steps as possible.

2. I have Gnot and I was wondering if I can take the .vod fiels on my harddrive and create that SVCD through that process.

Well.. You can resize to (S)VCD in Gknot. But first you will have to make a DVD2AVI project, load it into Gknot, resize and save .avs file to feed it into CCE 2.50 for example.

3. I ceated an animated movie and is that the reason that the quality is not the same as the .vod original.

Animated movies are known (especially anime) to be a little bit harder to compress than "normal" ones. Try to play with some filters (smoothers, different resizing filters, etc.)

4. Will the movie's be smaller on the TV due to the change from 720X576 to 480X576

No. It won't be smaller. It will fit the screen as the DVD. You had to change the resoultion due to the SVCD specification.

5. Do I have to do anyting further before I burn the new movie onto a CD-R and why is the audio softer in the new mpeg2 files

Actually - it depends - if you want menus, chapters selection, you can always do that. Why the audio is softer? Because you had to reencode it to meet the SVCD specification. It's not DolbyDigital.

BTW - all is covered in FAQs and guides. Good start point for you would be reading all the VCD/SVCD related FAQs, guides that Doom9 has on this very site and searching the forum for all the topics. Everything is right here. Also, go to www.vcdhelp.com for some more info on (S)VCD specification and some other useful info.
I recommend you DVD2SVCD - great and easy proggie to do DVD-(S)VCD conversion.

take care

aleksander