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Is it better to convert a Divx( MPEG4) avi to DVD or SVCD...Can someone tell me which will give you better picture quality and will both be able to be watched on a DVD player?
I have been reading about it a lot and the thing is this.
VCD is to poor quality for movies. It's oki for crappy stuff and so on and smaller file but for movies I prefer DivX (640*480, no less quality than that) or DVD movies.
The thing is that SVCD is in between DVD and VCD. A SVCD looks like a DVD movie, the sound is good and the quality of the picture on TV is verry good. (SVCD is for playing on TV not the computer).
The only thing with SVCD is that the sharpness you have on DVD movies will not be that good on SVCD. But on the other hand, CD-R's are so cheap you can spend a few (like 2-4 on movies) the quality is better than VCD and it's sharp enought compared to VCD.
A DivX in 640*480 converted to SVCD is allmost the same quality but the differens is that you can play it without problems on most computers, output it to TV or play it in a DVD player that supports SVCD. But with DivX you have to play it on a computer.
The reason why people is sticking to DivX is that you can fit a movie onto a CD where as SVCD takes up 2 cd's but who cares since it's so cheap to buy cd-r's anyway.
I have been reading about it a lot and the thing is this.
VCD is to poor quality for movies. It's oki for crappy stuff and so on and smaller file but for movies I prefer DivX (640*480, no less quality than that) or DVD movies.
The thing is that SVCD is in between DVD and VCD. A SVCD looks like a DVD movie, the sound is good and the quality of the picture on TV is verry good. (SVCD is for playing on TV not the computer).
The only thing with SVCD is that the sharpness you have on DVD movies will not be that good on SVCD. But on the other hand, CD-R's are so cheap you can spend a few (like 2-4 on movies) the quality is better than VCD and it's sharp enought compared to VCD.
A DivX in 640*480 converted to SVCD is allmost the same quality but the differens is that you can play it without problems on most computers, output it to TV or play it in a DVD player that supports SVCD. But with DivX you have to play it on a computer.
The reason why people is sticking to DivX is that you can fit a movie onto a CD where as SVCD takes up 2 cd's but who cares since it's so cheap to buy cd-r's anyway.
you can make vcd"s with svcd quality(or pretty close)if you make a svcd with a bitrate of 2250kbs and a vcd with 2250kbs the quality is allmost the same,accept the audio may be a little less in quality,this is what I have noticed on my system...
I have the plus version of TMPGenc and am wondering what the proper conversion settings should be after expanding a MPEG4 file to avi then trying to encode back to MPEG2 so I can burn to dvd...I have tried a couple of different times and each time I encode and burn my dvd looks like the old multi generation loss VHS tapes of old...Is there any way to enhance the picture quality? Can someone shed some light on the proper settings for a converted DIVX file so as to have a watchable picture? I also seem to be losing sound as well...I am lost here
No, encoding of DivX is not the purpose of TMPGenc. It is an mpeg1/2 encoder (the best I've ever seen).
It is able to decode DivX (if you have the right codec installed), so you can use it to transform divx into mpeg.
I would like to know if tmpgenc makes 100% vcd 2.0 mpegs. I know that what it makes is accepted by nero for burning, but i plan on doing menus and need the files to be absolutley 100% vcd 2.0. if any one can tell me an answer or give me a template or whatever i need i would be most gratefull. Also what is the difference between vcd 2.0 and 1.0?
thanks
There is a long answer to that question, the best place to find it is http://www.vcdhelp.com .
Which vcd standard to burn is a setting in your authoring software not in the mpeg encoder. Just use the right setting of the streamtype to use in TMPGenc and you will never have a problem authoring a file to CD (at least I never had)
I have some trouble when using TMPGEnc for cutting my *.mpg programme.
after i covert *.dat to *,mpg, and i want to do some editing in that *.mpg file in TMPGnc, at the Merge & Cut section, my file was disabled and an error message appear that my Mpeg file is illegal!How come?!And how can i solve it?!
I've used this programme from V.20 but everything was ok before~
Thanks for ur attention!
A dat file is a vcd compiant mpeg1 file. In order to get back a simple mpeg stream first us a tool ( like mpegtool ) to copy the dat to a mpeg file, then encode it in TMPGenc and enjoy...
Anyway I know CCE SP is out there somewhere but anyway I wanna get this all clear.
Is there any thing that is good with 2-pass VBR, is it better than Automatic VBR and if so, will 3-pass or more do any difference to the movie quality ?
It seems to me that the major differens in encoding a movie is how high you set the average bitrate when it comes to scenes with a lot of movement ?
I am about to start using phillips vcd2tk and have read a guide that i found from vcdhelp.com. In the guide it says that tmpgenc does not create true multiplexed VCD 2.0 compliant mpeg. vcd2tk will only accept this white book standard. So is this true and will I have to use a seperate multiplexer or is the guide wrong or outdated?
Here is a little trick that Techno told me about that seems to work for me,just re-name your wmv. to asf. I have only done this with small video clips and it worked fine..but you can convert your wmv file to avi. with "asf tools" you can get it in the "tools" section of "vcdhelp.com.....hope this helps........sherlock
I use MSP6.5 and very disappointed with the MPEG2 encoder. I would like to use Tmpeg instead - but Need to know how. I think that I can render to a DV type 1 file and input that into TMPEGe for encoding. Then input that file into the MSP dvd plug in. If this is possible, is the DV type 1 file the right type? And what template will give me the BEST MPEG2 encode for NTSC reguardless of encode time? If this works well it will save me!
I have tried editing software from Ulead, Pinnacle and MGI and all the mpeg encoders suck. Nothing can beat te quality in TMPGenc. I'm using exactly that technique. DV -> Edit -> DV then encode in TMPGenc and author (I'm using TSCV).
Just be careful to use a DV AVI type2, TMPGenc won't read type1.
Joe, it will read type 1 and becoase I have raptor it will also read avi files with the rapter codec too! I did not know this until I tried it. Of course I am using the latest version of TMPGe
Can you help me, It worked great for awhile but now when I click on a avi file to convert to mpeg , The Video Part works but then nothing comes up in the audio and it say can not open or unsupported. It worked for awhile then i downloaded easy cd and its not working now, I got rid of easy cd and it still does not work, Can anyone help please. thanks
Hi
I'm using Version 2.53.35.130 . Works fine to make a mpeg file for VCD !!!
example :
avi files (Video-CD PAL (MPEG-1 352x288 25fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 128kbps),
original audio format is here : MPEG Layer-3, 111 kbit/s, 44100Hz, Stereo
But...
with the following settings, but with another audio format (MPEG Layer-3, 147 kbit/s, 48000Hz, Stereo) NO SOUND on the mpeg file created ...!!!
Has anyone experienced this ? how can I fix that ??