Anime DVD to SVCD

[helix]

I'm having trouble ripping an anime DVD to SVCD format and was wondering what steps need to be taken to make a successful one. I've looked for guides on how to do anime, or de-interlaced movies such as anime, but was couldn't find any. I'm not sure but for anime I think you need a special template of which i was also unable to find any mention or refrence of. If anybody can help, I would appreciate it.

[helix]

anybody?

[Nick]

Hi, welcome to the forum.

A little more info would be nice, like for example what actually goes wrong. If you could describe what it is about the results you are not happy with it may be easier to isolate a cause.

A logfile (as ever) would tell us about what settings you are using and might help us track the problem. Please :logfile: :thanks:

[helix]

Ok, heres exactly what I did and what happened. When making the .DV2 file and the .WAV using DVD2AVI, I knew that "forced film" needs to be turned off. That didn't make any difference in the final burned version as compared with forced film turned on. (The movie has a FPS of 29.970, NTSC only goes up to 94%). The guide I was reading told me to turn it on, but the guide was based on doing a "Hollywood" film. I learned from a partial guide on some other site that with anime "forced film" needs to be turned off no matter what. Now with that figured out, I made my .DV2 and my .WAV and proceded to use TMPGEnc to encode everthing together. I loaded my .DV2 and my .WAV and loaded the "SuperVideoCD (NTSC).mcf" template, not the "film" version of course, and went in to configure all the settings. I don't think the "rate control method makes a difference but I used "2-pass VBR(VBR)" so I was able to obtain the best quality. Now I think the "Encode mode" is what may make a difference. I think that the first and maybe second times I tried I had it set to "non-interlace". I have no idea what it's suppose to be for anime... But the last few I tried I think I had it set to "interlace" which made no difference when i watched it on the DVD player. In the "advanced" tab I had "video source type" set to "non-interlace (progressive)" which I belive anime is; non-interlaced. And the "field order" was "Bottom field first (field B)" the "source aspect ratio" was 16:9 as shown to be by DVD2AVI, so that wasn't a big mystery. I hit start, encoded it (a small part of the whole movie anyway, as i didn't think it would work and I wanted to save time) perfored the header trick because my DVD player can't play SVCD right out, DVD player didn't play it. The video was studdery like all the previous versions of settings on encoding I had tried. I found yet another site that said that using "inverce telecine" might work... it didn't. As for the encode log, i'm not sure I saved it. i looked in the TMPGENc directory but didn't see anything that could be a log file. I've never had any problems encoding anything elts but anime, so i really never felt keeping a log of anything was really nessisary. Sorry :(

[Nick]

Ah, that sheds a different light on things!

This forum specifically deals with a piece of software called DVD2SVCD which automates the whole process (and produces a comprehensive log :D ) - it appears you aren't using this so this could be a case of "wrong forum syndrome". A common disorder and nothing too much to worry about :)

Howver, rather than move the post I'm going to suggest you download DVD2SVCD and give it a try.

Look at your source in bitrate viewer. If it is interlaced, select "leave interlaced" in the interlace options box, otherwise "no deinterlacing".

Set your audio bitrate and target number of discs, leave the other settings as default. Load the ifo from your DVD and sit back while it does the magic. More often than not it is that simple! To save time, if you re-rip the DVD with internal routines, you can select a single chapter to encode. Using this and a CDRW you could do short quick test encodes, try the result in your DVD player, tweak the settings if necessary and avoid starting from scratch every time. You will have to author the images manually to use the header trick. There is a plugin to automate that for you too but the author has sadly vanished from these chambers and the link is dead. We're working on that!

DVD2SVCD is a bit daunting at first glance with several settings to play with but there are plenty of guides around.

Good luck!

[helix]

thanks for the help! i'll give that a try.