dvd2svcd settings scripts

[Buggerlugs]

Does anyone know of anywhere on the web where someone has a bunch of dvd2svcd settings scripts for different tasks available for download?

[Labersack]

What kind of scripts are you looking for? I don't exactly understand what you want to do, please explain it more clearly.

[Buggerlugs]

i`m basically wanting to see what the most used filters are and find out why they use those filters rather than others. I want to know the benefits of one filter over another similar one.

[Labersack]

Ok, now I understand.
But there will be no easy answer to this. You can read many forums, e.g. here the 'VCD/SVCD encoding & authoring' at Doom9 to understand what the filters are doing. But you will never get a 'best setting', because it depends much on the Movie, your TV-set/DVD-Player, etc, and last not least, as said quite often: 'Quality is in the eye of the beholder'.
There will follow many opinions to this statement, many of the people will offer your their 'best settings' ,and you should try them all with one chapter and decide at the end what is best for YOU.

My favorite resize method is bicubic, its slow but quality is the best. I sometimes use TemporalSmoother and sharpen with different values, but not always, as it depends much on the quality of the source.

[Buggerlugs]

So you are saying if the dvd source is perfect quality you wouldn`t bother with using TemporalSmoother and sharpen at all, and just use bicubic??

Basically, i`m wanting to encode films to (as near too) dvd quality as i can get as fast as posible from Perfect quality PAL DVDs. From what i`ve read on scouring through these forums it seems a little hit and miss as too what settings are advantageous over others.

I`m not talking Animated films,cartoons or CGI i`m just talking about your normal 25fps PAL DVD with people in it. So on average what settings should I be choosing? Do I need to always use a de-interlace filter? Is it worth the extra encoding time to use bicubic instead of simple resize? And are temporal_softners, smoothers and unfilters really worthwhile, or is the eye not going to be able to distinguish from the end result anyway?

Theres so many settings available on dvd2svcd, its easy to jump in and drown before i learn to swim, and i don`t want to have my pc encoding for 10 hours to find a setting hasn`t worked.

[gerti67]

@Buggerlugs:

As Labersack already told you, you have to find and test it out on your own because it's all a matter of personal likings in the end.

But you can use the internal routines for the ripping step and encode only some small chapters with different settings. Then burn the muxed MPEGs on a CD-R(W) with Nero starting a new SVCD project with a menu and you can switch and skip through them with your standalone to find out your personal likings. That's how I did it in the past.

Only thing I can say for sure is that almost all PAL DVDs have a good quality and are encoded progressive - so there's definitively no need to deinterlace them as it results in lower quality.

Greetings,
Gerti