a few questions about dvd2svcd

[chet]

first of all, let me say I love the program.

I am just having a lot of trouble finding information on the following topics on the internet (yes, I have searched google, doom9, digital-digest, afterdawn etc).

1. I am making a svcd that has 16:9 aspect ratio, but encoded as 4:3 (with borders added). I want subtitles. what y-pos do I set the subtitles to so that they are in the bottom border?

2. I am having trouble configuring a svcd with 2 audio tracks (1 is the main, 2 is a commentary). In order to have the svcd set to the svcd specification, audio 2 has to be set to a birtate of 32 kbps! Is there any way to get an increased rate?

how about if I ignore the warning that total birtate is more than the specification? I know that the disc may not play on all dvd players, and I don't want this.

3. I would like some more information on encoding chapters. I use the pbc use playlist setting in vcdx builder in cd-image tab. With the first few discs I did, I could not skip chapters... I am burning another today, will let you know how I go.

also - can you set dvd2svcd so that a disc-change occurs at a chapter-change?

4. If, in the bitrate tab, I select 800MB CDs, and then I go to Nero to burn, Nero adds a few files of it's own. this makes the cd over 800MB and it won't burn the cd! how do I get over this?

I want to select 800MB, not 740 as I will get more data on an 800MB disc... better quality! right?

5. is it possible to use an authoring program after dvd2svcd has done all it's work? i.e. to make menu's / chapter settings etc.

I'm only asking because now I will have 2 or more MPG files to work with. eg. what if there is a disc change required during a chapter?

thanks
Andrew

[chet]

could this topic please be moved into the appropriate forum?

sorry for posting in here.

[Kirven]

When it comes to nr 4; i can help.
Just manually type in 795 or 797 instead of selecting 800 and it will fitt perfect with nero on an 74 min disc. ;-)
I´m sorry that I can´t answer the other questions.

/ Kirven

[Karovaldas]

Regarding #4:
Nero will do whatever you tell it to do. By default it is set to not burn over 80 minutes of data on the CD-R. However, if you go to Preferences and enable Overburning on the Expert Features tab, you can then set the maximum size that will be burned to the CD-R to you liking.

I have it set to 95 minutes which is equivalent to more than 825MB. Sometimes Nero fails and I ruin a CD-R, but I've been able to burn as much as 830MB.

Best luck! :)

[Bubba]

Hi,

About "overburning", I found out that it really depends on a particular brand of CDR. Good brand name CDRs like TDK, Maxell, Sony, etc. will let you overburn 81:50 to 82:05 easily. But to be safe, and don't waste your 10min waiting, I usually authored my VCD material not to exceed 81:55 on a 80min CDR. About the brand, I like the most is TDK. Very consistent. What I meant is, for some brand in some batch (i.e. 50-pack or 100-pack), you can burn really high (i.e. 81:50+), but you cannot in other batch. But for TDK, it always let me do 81:55 to 82:05, all the time.

I guess TDK's reputation on their media is well known. TDK's DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs are also very good. If you go to eBay, you will see auction on TDK DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs are always more expensive than some other brands.

Cheers,