AZ
17th December 2002, 00:19
First of all, thanks for your *great* help for "SVCD people" like me.
Now, the request...
I am one of those fools who looses his time trying to reproduce the entire DVD structure on simple SVCDs (yes, I know, I should have to buy a DVD writer, but anyway...)
I have read and learnt the techniques needed for ripping, encoding, authoring and burning extras and menus (VCDEasy or - sometimes - direct XML editing).
In general, I let DVD2SVCD do his job on the real movie (2 SVCDs) and extract specials and menus in order to burn an extra SVCD.
Sometimes - however - the extra material covers only few minutes (10 or less), and burning an extra CD seems a waste.
Ideally, I would like to say to DVD2SVCD: "manage the main title, but consider a 10 minutes 'hole' on the first CD"; then I could let DVD2SVCD make his job (create image) for the second CD, and combine the shorter "muxed-subbed" mpeg file with menus and extras, and author them by myself in order to build the other CD.
Note that I would not obtain the same result forcing a 60-64 minutes length on the bitrate tab, because DVD2SVCD would split (and mux, and re-sub) the encoded video into two equal chunks; I would end with a CD containing ten minutes of extras and 64 minutes of movie, and a second CD with a "hole" of 10 minutes.
So - just to end - my request for a new function is the following: I would like to have an option to set an "extra" time to be left free on the first SVCD; this parameter should be considered both in bitrate calculations and in "split/mux/resub" phases, allowing manual authoring for the first SVCD.
Thanks.....
Now, the request...
I am one of those fools who looses his time trying to reproduce the entire DVD structure on simple SVCDs (yes, I know, I should have to buy a DVD writer, but anyway...)
I have read and learnt the techniques needed for ripping, encoding, authoring and burning extras and menus (VCDEasy or - sometimes - direct XML editing).
In general, I let DVD2SVCD do his job on the real movie (2 SVCDs) and extract specials and menus in order to burn an extra SVCD.
Sometimes - however - the extra material covers only few minutes (10 or less), and burning an extra CD seems a waste.
Ideally, I would like to say to DVD2SVCD: "manage the main title, but consider a 10 minutes 'hole' on the first CD"; then I could let DVD2SVCD make his job (create image) for the second CD, and combine the shorter "muxed-subbed" mpeg file with menus and extras, and author them by myself in order to build the other CD.
Note that I would not obtain the same result forcing a 60-64 minutes length on the bitrate tab, because DVD2SVCD would split (and mux, and re-sub) the encoded video into two equal chunks; I would end with a CD containing ten minutes of extras and 64 minutes of movie, and a second CD with a "hole" of 10 minutes.
So - just to end - my request for a new function is the following: I would like to have an option to set an "extra" time to be left free on the first SVCD; this parameter should be considered both in bitrate calculations and in "split/mux/resub" phases, allowing manual authoring for the first SVCD.
Thanks.....