Making a standard VCD

[Olleman]

Hi!

I use DVD2SVCD mainly to encode my dvb captures to SVCD but sometime my tv-captures are like 60 min long and I can't make a good SVCD out of that (for one cd) so I'd like to make a standard compliant VCD. But is this doable in dvd2svcd ? I have looked everywhere in the program for a place to input the bitrate manually (1150 kbit/s CBR) but I can't find it anyway...

is there any way of doing this ?

And while I'm at it I must say that the implementation of pvastrumento to make dvb sourcefiles possible is soo great!

Thanks for a great program!

Regards, Olle

[UltimateDBZ]

First, this is a Basic topic so it belongs here.

Second, a search would reveal this has been discussed quite a bit. All you have to do is load the vcdsettings.ini from the misc tab.

[Olleman]

Hi!

Thanks for your reply. Actullay I looked through both basic and advanced topics for this but found nothing. So I really tried to find an answer myself before I wrote this thread.

But again, thankyou for your help!

Regards, Olle

[Olleman]

Another problem has arissen for me when making VCD from a DVB file with dvd2svcd.

The problem is this. The process is fine until tmpenc kicks in. It encodes with (under Video tab) Aspect Ratio 1:1 (VGA) and the Source aspect is set to (Under advanced tab) 4:3 Display when I really want these values to be 4:3 625 Line (PAL) and Source aspect: 4:3 625 Line (PAL, 704*576)

Is there anyway I can change the default tpr file dvd2svcd is using ? Because with the present settings it will make a file that has a "weird" aspect ratio and newer media players will add borders to it making it look like a letterboxed 16:9 encoding. (And yes I have selected 4:3 in under conversion tab in dvd2svcd)

Please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Regards, Olle

[siwy911]

My sugestion would be to use CCE instead of TMPEG for encoding the video

[Olleman]

hi!

that's not really a solution since tmpenc encodes vcd and mpeg-1 better than cce...

regards, Olle

[BGane]

I have noticed the same problem with encodes that I am trying to make. DVD2SVCD sets up the parameters for TMPGEnc via a TPR file that is created on the fly. From what I can determine, the parameters are collected (1) from the active INI file, and (2) from defaults that are set by the DVD2SVCD code. You have access to the ones in the INI file. You do not have access to the internal defaults. Again, from what I can determine, you do NOT have access to the parameters that set up aspect ratio (for those that affect TMPGEnc). It doesn't seem to matter what you select from the initial DVD2SVCD panel - TMPGEnc is always set up such that the video tab has 1:1 VGA aspect set.

I would appreciate a comment from the DVD2SVCD team on this. Just an acknowledgement that this behaviour is correct, or not, would be nice. If the team agrees that this is NOT appropriate behaviour then I would hope that they address it in a future version of DVD2SVCD.

[markrb]

I am not completely sure about this, but I believe the reason for the 1:1 encode is simply that it is being served at VCD resolution and 1:1 keeps the ratio the same as what it's being served at.

Mark

[BGane]

If that were the case, then one would expect the TMPGEnc-generated MPEG sequence header to vary, based on differing source inputs. That doesn't seem to be happening. The aspect ratio in the MPEG header is ALWAYS set to "2" (ie. 1:1 VGA), regardless of the input formats.