Need help making a decision

[catback]

Hi,

I have several separate clips of music videos that I want to transfer to a DVD media for playback on my standalone player. The clips are currently in the NTSC SVCD format (480x480 MPEG-2, 44.1 kHz). I have a couple options but wasn't sure which would be better.

Option 1
Convert each clip over to a DVD compliant file and author as a standard DVD.

Option 2
Keep the clips in the current SVCD format and create a SVCD but burn it to a DVD instead of a CD (if I stayed with a CD, it would require 3 or 4 CDs which I would rather not have). I'm not sure if this is even possible since my standalone may recognize a DVD media being inserted and expect a DVD compliant format.

Any suggestions on which of the two I should go with? I would prefer 2 since it means no re-encoding and loss of quality but I'm not sure if it will work.

Thanks.

[SallyDog]

Hello catback

I've been coverting a lot of svcd's to dvd lately and this method has worked fine for me.

Take each of your 480x480 clips and process with dvdpatcher. Just change the horizontal resolution from 480 to 320, and make sure to patch the entire file (not just the header).

Once patched, use TMPG tools and do a simple de-multiplex of each mpg to create their respective m2v and mp2 files. The mp2 will be at 44.1, but don't worry about that.

After you have all your mpg's de-multiplexed, use TMPG DVD Author and add each of the m2v files you created. DVD Author will automatically assign the correct mp2, and it will also convert them to 48k. Once all the files are added, author the dvd.

When you're finished, your VIDEO_TS folder will obviously contain one or more vobs. As a final step, you need to open each vob in dvdpatcher, and change the horizontal resolution back to 480.

I then burn with Nero.

This really isn't a very time consuming job for each clip. If you are not familiar with some of these tools, feel free to ask for more detail.

Good luck!

SallyDog