CD Images

[shanetrain]

For some reason that I just cannot figure out, everytime I backup a DVD, the MPEG files are fine but the 2nd bin image is always short. Anybody have any idea what I may be doing wrong. Is there a setting i'm missing somewhere? I'm using DVD2SVCD to rip and convert and VCDXBuild for the image files. I've tried VCDImager and get the same problem though.

TIA

[Hiro2k]

What do you mean by short? How many megs are they off?

[mrbass]

don't use TMPGEnc ...use CCE instead
and if you are using CCE then don't use 1 pass VBR.

[shanetrain]

I would prefer not to use CCE due to the logo thing.

To answer the first question, I would say it's cutting off about the last 10 minutes of the movie, on average.

[joshyg2]

when dvd2svcd is calculating the bitrate it makes sure it stays within the CVD/SVCD standards.

so for example if the video is 50 >= 76 then 1 CD.
but if the movie is 77 mins or a little bit more, you would end up with a average bitrate of 2416 for 2 CDs. This is over the standard, so dvd2svcd ignores the average setting and uses the max average.

thats probably why your getting a smaller filesize on the second CD image.

so, if your player supports XSVCD (non-standard SVCD) then just increase the maximum and maximum average settings on the bitrate tab of dvd2svcd.