Creating a MiniDVD by using DVDShrink 2.3, if we can only do the same for XSVCD!

[jsquare]

I know that MiniDVD is not a very popular format since most desktop players won't play them, aside from my Mintek DVD-1600.
Last night I was working with DVDShrink v2.3 to fix some problems with a dificult DVD (the LEXX series), and I started playing with the Start/End feature by selecting a range of chapters then I decided to make a MiniDVD with one 2-CH AC3 audio track, to my suprise I managed to fit 35 mins on a CD using a copression level of 10 and the quality was great, the whole proccess took only 5 mins to complete, then I burned the CD with Nero and tested on my Mintek.
My point for this post is simple, if this could be achieved in so little time and with such a good quality, could we do the same for XSVCD?
An engine like the one behind DVDShrink could blast away any CCE/Tmpgenc encoding time or quality, I know that the resolution have to be kept at 720x480(XSCVD) since re-encoding is out of the question, but I'm sure most players will handle this by using a SVCD format instead of MiniDVD.
One more thing, I wish DVDShrink will allow for lower compression levels, or maybe a variable level like in IC7. Some DVD material could be taken lower than level 10, and to DVDShrink creator thank you for such a great tool it sure beats DVD2ONE and even IC7 in most of my DVDs convertions.

[dihelson]

Originally posted by jsquare
I know that MiniDVD is not a very popular format since most desktop players won't play them, aside from my Mintek DVD-1600.
Last night I was working with DVDShrink v2.3 to fix some problems with a dificult DVD (the LEXX series), and I started playing with the Start/End feature by selecting a range of chapters then I decided to make a MiniDVD with one 2-CH AC3 audio track, to my suprise I managed to fit 35 mins on a CD using a copression level of 10 and the quality was great, the whole proccess took only 5 mins to complete, then I burned the CD with Nero and tested on my Mintek.
My point for this post is simple, if this could be achieved in so little time and with such a good quality, could we do the same for XSVCD?
An engine like the one behind DVDShrink could blast away any CCE/Tmpgenc encoding time or quality, I know that the resolution have to be kept at 720x480(XSCVD) since re-encoding is out of the question, but I'm sure most players will handle this by using a SVCD format instead of MiniDVD.
One more thing, I wish DVDShrink will allow for lower compression levels, or maybe a variable level like in IC7. Some DVD material could be taken lower than level 10, and to DVDShrink creator thank you for such a great tool it sure beats DVD2ONE and even IC7 in most of my DVDs convertions.


This is an interesting question I'd liked to see posts also..

Dihelson

[int 21h]

I would think the bitrate would remain too high... you would have places where the data could not be read from the CD fast enough...

[maa]

You can run things through DVD Shrink twice, sometimes a film looks really bad and other times its still amazingly good - must depend on the original compression quality.