VCD to DVD

[The Dead Poet]

I wasn't sure whether to put this in CVD or DVD Forum, but I hope that here is the best place ;-)

Anyway, my question is this:
I have some VCDs with NTSC Bitrate (23,xxx) and Resolution.
I would like to get them on a DVD without the need of reencoding them (reencoding Audio to 48kHz would be no problem), cause reencoding does decrease the quality quite a bit.

Are there any solutions or does anyone of you have an idea?
My DVD Player is a Cyberhome DVD 505, unforunately it seems not to support Data-CDs or DVDs with only MPEG Files on them.

Thnx alot in advance for your answers.

[byb3]

im fairly sure this worked with me, if I remember:

1. Extract the mpg from your .DAT file (vcdgear)
2. Demux the mpg file into an m1v and the audio file.
3. Rename the .m1v file, to .m2v
4. If you use Dvdlab (I would recommend) then when importing the audio it automatically converts it to 48khz for you.
5. Then under a movie, use your .m2v file as the video, and the 48khz audio file for the audio.

Thats my guess anyways.

Regards,

byb3

[The Dead Poet]

Hi!

Thnx alot for your answer!
I tried the method, but unfortunately it didnn't work.
The MPEG has a Resolution of 352*240, which is half the NTSC Broadcast DF1 Resolution (704*480) - so I tried this one in my project settings.
But DVD Lab always tells me that the pulldowned video (yes, it has to pulldown the m2v to 29,97 fps) has the wrong aspect ratio.
Are there any other setting I could try?

Thnx !

[dani82]

i don't know much about dvd authoring (burning), but i do read, but i can't remember where, but it said 23.976 wasn't allowed on a dvd(s)vcd


this should be somewhat the same as what you are trying to do:

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/svcd.html

[Kika]

The MPEG has a Resolution of 352*240, which is half the NTSC Broadcast DF1 Resolution (704*480)

To be correct: That's the quarter Resolution, Half-D1 is 352x480. ;)

...but it said 23.976 wasn't allowed on a dvd(s)vcd

It is allowed, but has to be Encodet the right way - 3:2-Pulldown on Playback. Without this Flag, the framerate is wrong. So, if the Video is encodet as progressive only, it won't be accepted by the Authoring-Program.

[Chetwood]

Originally posted by byb3

1. Extract the mpg from your .DAT file (vcdgear)
2. Demux the mpg file into an m1v and the audio file.
3. Rename the .m1v file, to .m2v
4. If you use Dvdlab (I would recommend) then when importing the audio it automatically converts it to 48khz for you.
5. Then under a movie, use your .m2v file as the video, and the 48khz audio file for the audio.


Is it likely that as some standalones can playback jpgs from a data CD-R (no picture CD) some standalones also might be able to playback pure mpgs from a data DVD-R?

I'm planning on putting all my Futurama VCD eps on DVD-R so I can watch them on my standalone from DVD-R media. So in case my player does not playback simple mpgs how bout making a VCD in Nero and using 15 eps instead of just 3 (that usually fill a CDR) kinda like creating an oversized VCD on DVD-R media?

BTW, where can I get DVDlab? Is this really this 17 MB download from Media Chance?

[ChrissyBoy]

I didn't think DVDLab imported mpeg 1 streams.....

[Shuichiro]

Hello.

I did tried many guides to put a lot of movies in VCD format onto one DVD-R. The only good solution for me @ that time was DVD Movie Factory 2 from Ulead. But I did had one problem. The first movie was always out of synch. The other movies instead worked totally fine.

Anyone know a good piece of software where this doesn't occur?
thanx in advance for any help!

[byb3]

dvdlab doesn't import mpeg 1 streams, but if you import it anyway, it works when its a .vob file. You just can't do any clever things like auto chapters etc..

If DVD Lab complains about bad ratios just ignore it...

[echooff]

use dvdpatcher. there is a doom9 guide tells you how and it is excellent. you must rewrite the vcd/svcd header. i have done this several times. since no encoding is involved it is fast and offers no quality loss. de-mux the file. rename the video extension from m1v to m2v. run it through dvdpatcher making sure you select the option for rewrite header for all frames. you have to redo the audio to get 48000. rename the audio file from mp2 to mpa and run it through besweet to get a new mp2 file. mux and you are good to go.

[allusernamesaretaken]

Well, I've tried the same thing. I'm currently moving all of my VCD recordings onto DVDs. Tmpg DVD author does a nice job of encoding everything for me (and I can live with the poor selection of menus). However it does require that all of my files are of some very certain framerates and resolutions (and some are not).

So with this tool, the only problem really becomes actually reencoding whatever files you have to a format it will accept (I've tried seperate audio/video inputs with poor results). It's a wonder that there are so few tools available to transform an MPG stream from say 23.97 fps to 29.97 fps. I've tried about 15 tools over the last couple of days, eventually I'll find one that does.

But if you don't have this problem, ou might find TMPG dvd author a decent tool to convert to DVD.

[dani82]

don't know about transform, but tmpgenc can convert 23.976 -> 29.76