divx to vcd

[jaba]

Bonsoir fellow peoples, sory a little tipsy here and on new laptop keyboard to bear with me.

Ok, being the lost addict I am I want to share it with my not so computer enabled friends. However, said friends have DVD players that can or seem to play VCD's. I have tried a method to convert divx's to vcds using ulead dvd software but the sound got all messed up. I have also tried a method I found on divx-digest using virtual dub and tmpenc but this got the sound right and got no picture. Can someone tell me please how to make this bloody thing work! please!

The Big jabowski.

 

[Escape]

The only VCDs I've played have less than 1 hour per disc, in this case you're looking at 1CD per episode? oO

It may be alot easier to join some episodes, so you ~8 episodes in one .avi file and convert it to MPEG2. Which, with the right authoring software(even Nero6 can do this afaik) can be made into a playable DVD.

If you can, experiment with a smaller avi first (30MB clip) until you get the re-encoding right. Then copy to a DVDRW and see if your DVD player can play it. If your player doesn't like DVDRW's, You can still check it on your PC with PowerDVD etc, to be sure it's recognised as a playable disc.


I haven't actually done this, the last time I tried tmpenc the picture was fine but the sound was garbled It is recommended alot though, so if you can get the settings right it should do the trick!

 

[WPKenny]

When I do stuff like this I use Nero Vision Express 2 SE. There's probably other versions of it but this will convert pretty much anything incl Divx to VCD or DVDs and even lets you add chapters and creates menus if you want that sort of thing.

 

[phlash]

VCDEasy http://www.vcdeasy.org does most of the hard work. you still need to MPEG1/2 encode the source material though...

PS; There is a free version of this available - Google!

 

[Uriel]

VCD is a pretty ropey format tbh, about VHS quality. Most TV eps used to be in the SVCD format iirc but depending on the length of the show, if you’re encoding yourself, you might have to use a non-standard bit rate for it to fit on one CD which can cause badness.

Also, whereas some kit seems to play VCD/SVCDs no probs I know there are some (newer?) players that seem to have difficulties. But I digress...

Sound/picture of out synch is classic symptom of trying to convert pal into ntsc or via versa (I've not seen the show but assume the source is taken from US TV), or (since I'm not entirely sure what you mean when you say the sound is 'messed up') the sound could have been encoded at a problematic bit/sample rate.

Furthermore, when using TMPEG the black screen (no picture/ok sound) problem usually comes from having the video renderer on too low a priority. You can tell if it's going to work or not by turning on the preview option, no picture here = no picture in the finished (S)VCD.

Anyway, all the above is a roundabout way of saying that DIVX/XVID->(S)VCD is pretty complicated to the beginner if you use some of the more powerful programs. Your best bet is, as WPKenny said, to buy/try (I think there's a trial) Nero Vision Express, it really is Dead Simple. Drag the file you want into the box. Select whether you want menus/chapters and click burn. You can also stick more than one episode/file on each DVD and the program will adjust the quality automatically (normal quality is about 2 hours). Magic!

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Useful Resource

 

[Clown]

There also seems to be some guides on doom9. I've only skimmed through them, but they seem to go through step by step.