use frame selection

[Belgarad]

really, "use frame selection" on the "conversation" tab is one of the greatest new features in dvd2svcd. :)
it enables you to easy cut out ad's from your dvb-mpeg stream in an very easy efficient way.
with this option, i do not really any cutting tool anylonger!!!

however i have not found an option so far, that enables me to ask dvd2svcd to create only as many cd-images as necessary.
i.e. when i do "cut" a recording down to a total lenght of about 15 minutes in 4 scenes, then dvd2svcd will create also 4 small muxed mpg files and later on also 4 cue-sheets for 4 cd's.
so it would be great if dvd2svcd can use the usual calculation and create just (in this particular case of 15minutes) one muxed mpg file and also one cd image.

[UltimateDBZ]

Could you not use TMPG to join the 4 MPEGs, and then recreate the image on your own, perhaps with VCDEasy?

Seems to me like it'd be alot of extra work for DVD2SVCD to have to do, but I guess it can't hurt to ask.

[Belgarad]

its certainly possible to use tools like tmpgenc and the like.
but i thought, that this would be a really useful feature request.
how many people try to cut recordings and then make a vcd/svcd. and most of the tools available do not provide good support doing this. (i.e create bad mpeg files, take very long time for cutting and positioning etc.)

therefore, i thought i can/should ask for this feature. especially because the way dvd2svcd works is to create those *.dv2 files instead of demuxing etc. that is very fast and effective and i think most of the work is already done in dvd2svcd.

[UltimateDBZ]

To tell you the truth - I'd really like to see this done as well. Especially for converting DVB streams. I just don't know how likely it is in the near future.

Any thoughts, DVD2SVCD?

[VidHack]

Just a quick reply to you,

Just take those Muxed .MPG clips and load them into 'VCDeasy'.
You can then make a Playlist, to play them in any order you want, or you could just store them on your drive till you get 700mb's of clips and make one big compulation. VCDeasy is free and supports DVD2SVCD's output files. (SVCD Mode)

Just a thought....Enjoy

VidHack

[Belgarad]

I know that this is possible.
However, it would be nice if dvd2svcd could calculate the bitrate and do the encoding after to ensure that all the clips fit on the cd's as defined in the bitrate tab.
There are cases where we are not talking about clips but also cut aout advertising from a moving. and in those cases the idea with vdceasy wont mostlikely not work - because of the size of the mpegs's based on the encoding bitrate.

[bernd_b]

I must say I just wanted to post the same question.

I would strongly appreciate this feature too!!!

[CompuKid101]

What would be usefull is if cutting video using the frame selection would not recalcuate the bitrate based on the new time. Also not make more CDs than needed.

This way you could test the quality of a encode without encoding the whole thing (duh).