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DDogg
4th April 2003, 17:41
Wanted share a good experience with the DV group (Hey, all ten of us :) )

I did a very boring 90 minute talking head of a guest speaker lecture at my wifes place of work. She requested SVCD and I rolled my eyes thinking of all the time and aggravation it was going to take to do. Frankly I just did not want to allocate the mind-space because, if I did it, I wanted it to be a high quality encode using two Cd's and a change disk placard at the end of Disk1. So, it was going to take a lot of time and steps to do it right.

Anyway to the point of the post, as I was headed for bed I used the new version of DVD2SVCD that supports ProCorder, Avisynth 2.5x and Link2. I did change the version of SimpleResize to a YV12 version as Dvd2svcd uses the Interlaced resize function from SimpleResize and I was using Avisynth 2.51.

I fed it the 18 gig DV (type2)file, selected the right settings and went to bed. This morning I had a very high quality 2 svcd set with a change CD placard at the end of Disk 1 and chapters every 2 minutes. The quality is just outstanding using ProCorder and is as good (probably better) than I could have done by hand.

Hmmm, now I get to collect my "incentives" without actually doing any work. Me a happy old man :)

matzed
6th April 2003, 20:03
Hi DDogg,

I've been away a long time from this forum and site, and as i come back i can see that you guys worked a lot during this time ! One of my last post was about a way to have a nice SVCD from DV, and it seems that now it's "finger in the nose" ? ;)

I'll check that tomorrow...

...and i'm happy to see that the best community on the Internet remained... the best !

Matzed

paul8883
7th April 2003, 16:04
Hi DDOg, can you post the setting you have used for the conversion? and what version ProCoder have you used?

Thanks

DDogg
8th April 2003, 07:27
paul8883, working from memory...

2584 Max, 2584 Max average, 300 min
Kept interlaced with Interlaced resize @ 480X480
Procorder 1.01.35 set at CBR - Highest quality
Nothing fancy at all. Without ProCorder, given the difficulty of encoding quality DV at low bitrates, I would have had to do this on a DVD. That would have been too costly. SVCDs worked out at about 50 cents a set and I could dupe at 40X. Cheap, fast and looked great.