help needed putting an svcd onto dvdr desperate

Obviously not desperate to search?

Did you think that you are the only person that has every asked this question, it must be asked a few times each week, do a search or just experiment, its easy to figure out, this is how I do it...

Use VCDGear to extract SVCD MPEG File.
Name all the mpg files to similar "something disc 1.mpg" & "something disc 2.mpg"
Open up DVD2AVI and load the first MPG file, it will automatically load the other files.
Make sure MPEG Audio is selected and save to a location, you will end up with a d2v and mpa file.
Rename mpa to mp2 and run it through a MP3-WAV program.
Open up TMPGEnc Plus and load the d2v and wav file, choose a bitrate and encode.

Once you are finished you will have a dvd compliant mpeg file that is perfectly in sync, then just author and then burn, couldnt be any easier.

Khan - I have sent you a guide that works for me - check your email.

Hope it helps

DDUK

A few people have emailed me asking for the details I sent to Khan earlier.

Now I ain't no expert like a lot of the guys on here, but I gleaned this from elsewhere and I apologise for not being able to credit them personally.
It worked for me and I hope it's as useful to others as it was to me:

You'll need Isobuster, TMPGenc, and Spruce Up.
Load your first S/VCD into your drive and open up Isobuster.
Right click on MPEG2 folder and click on Extract But Filter only M2F2 MPEG Files.
Save the result to a folder - Disc 1 or whatever.
This process should take 5 mins or so depending on system spec.
Repeat for disc 2 saving to a different folder - disc 2 or whatever!
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Open up TMPGenc.
Cancel the wizard if it opens automatically and goto File, MPEG Tools, Merge & Cut.
Add the Isobusted file from S/VCD disc 1 saved earlier, then add the disc 2 file.
Click on Correct then choose your destination file and Run.
This process should take approx 15-30 mins depending on system spec.
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Open up TMPGenc again & this time use the project wizard.
Choose the format of DVD you want to produce - PAL or NTSC, 16-9 etc.
Select CBR MPEG I Layer 2 Audio in the drop down tab.
Click on Next and in the video file, choose the file that you saved in the previous TMPG process.
Click on next & follow your nose and choose a destination for the resulting file.
TMPGenc will encode the movie into a DVD format.
This will take at least a couple of hours.
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Open up Spruce Up
Click on the "Film" logo at the top left of the window ( looks like a small ladder)
In the blue area, right click and "Add Media Asset" will appear.
Click on it and select the last file that TMPG created for you.
This will start the Spruce Up process - approx 15-30mins depending.....blah blah!
When complete the file will appear in the blue area of Spruce Up.
Next click on simulate ( bottom left) and you can play the result on screen.
Click on 3 Export (bottom left)
Select advanced.
Cancel the Spruce Up Trial and DVD Player boxes.
Create an output destination and burn.

Spruce up will create chapter points and menu's for you as well but you can play with that another time!

Hope this helps

DDUK

You may not have experienced any problems doing svcd-dvd that way but I and many others have, if you use the Merge and Cut option in TMPGEnc alot of the times merging svcds will turn out to be an out of sync file and when you merge some vcds you will loose sound, just thought I would point out those 2 facts.

OK Indy - You have more experience than me m8.
I'm just trying to be helpful - we're all on a steep learning curve after all.

DDUK

PS - If anyone can reciprocate on my thread I would be appreciative.

Time for my bed - too much red wine & vodka!

Nightall.

If you are going to re-encode then there is no point joining the files anyway. Just run them through DVD2AVI, creating a D2V and demuxing the audio.

Then frameserve with AVISynth, something like:
open the video:
Video1 = mpeg2source("part1.d2v")
Video2 = mpeg2source("part2.d2v")
audio:
Audio1 = mpasource("part1.mp2")
Audio2 = mpasource("part2.mp2")
dub them together:
Video1 = audiodub(Video1,Audio1)
Video2 = audiodub(Video2,Audio1)
Then if there is some overlap remove it with trim() such as
Video2 = trim(video2,250,0)
If there is no overlap, then you could just make sure that DVD2AVI imports both parts and then have it create a single D2V and mp2.
Finally join them
Video1+Video2
You could also resize, filter, etc. if you wanted.
Last thing, if you are using TMPGEnc to encode add ConvertToRGB24() or for CCE ConvertToYUY2(). If your source is interlaced, then you would need to add interlaced=true or deinterlace.

or use dvd lab,excellent program

Originally posted by burp
or use dvd lab,excellent program
Agreed m8, and sooo much easier too.

I use UL MovieFactory, just feed it the mpegs, no joining required. It changes the audio sampling rate for you, encode video only if necessary (mpeg 1). The rest is standard fair - building menu, authoring title set, burn. To me it's a far cry from using 5-6 different tools to perform each little task manually. In other words: I'm lazy and this seems as easy as it can get using UL.

Now I haven't use DVDLab, which costs twice as much as UL. Can someone that has used both do a little bit of comparison, mainly to show what additional features in DVDLab might justify the higer cost?