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#267841 by negge (Power User) at 2005-06-27 19:04:06 (8 years ago) - [Report]

A week ago or so there was a guy posting how to put SVCD files on a DVD without reencoding the video, it included patching files and stuff like that. This method doesn't require any patching, it's faster, it's very easy and DVD-Lab can make very nice menus. What else can you ask for? This method is useful when you've downloaded 2-3CD telesyncs and don't want to waste time reencoding such bad quality source.

Required apps

Isobuster
DVD-Lab

Step 1: Unpacking the files

The first thing you need to do is unpack the movie you want to put on a DVD. Begin with the first CD and repeat this step for every disc. It's easier if you organize everything so that you've got all your files in one directory.

Step 2: Extracting the MPEG(S)

When you've unpacked all discs, open up Isobuster. Once you've opened it, go to File and choose Open Image. Now browse to the folder where you've extracted your movie and open the .BIN file, not the .CUE file. To the right you'll see a list of the folders on the disc, the one we need to focus on is the MPEG2 folder. Double-click it and you'll see a file there called AVSEQ01.MPG. Right-click it and choose Extract but FILTER only M2F2 MPEG frames to extract it. Choose a place to save the file (preferably the same directory as your source .BIN), and if you've got more CDs than 1 make sure to name them differently so nothing gets overwritten. Repeat this step for all CDs.

Note: When you specify the name for the file you extract you need to add .MPG after the name otherwise it creates a file without extension and DVD-Lab won't import that.

Step 3: Importing files and transcoding audio

Now it's time for the authoring. Open up DVD-Lab and drag & drop the first extracted .MPG to the Video & Audio field at the bottom of the DVD-Lab window. DVD-Lab will now ask you if you want to demux the file to elementary streams or not. It's very highly recommended that you choose to demux it.

After the the demuxing is done an "Error and warnings" window will pop up telling you that your source has SVCD frame size and that the audio has wrong sample rate. Click OK and then click Yes when it asks you if you want to transcode the audio now. It's easiest to use the MPEG Audio -> MPEG Audio 48kHz method. From the Bitrate dropdown menu choose whatever bitrate you want. It's a waste of space to use anything else than 224kbps as the source had that bitrate too. Then just click the Transcode button and wait till the process has finished.

Repeat this for all the extracted .MPGs you have.

Note: I know many people would like to use BeSweet or similar for the audio transcoding instead but that requires some extra work and DVD-Labs internal encoding machine works pretty good IMO, audio quality is fine.

Step 4: Compiling

Now that you've got all files imported you need to add them to the project. To the left you'll see the Project window, and you'll see an icon named Movie 1. If you've got a 2CD SVCD source, right-click somewhere in that window and choose Add movie. If you've got 3CDs choose Add movie again and so on.

Now double-click Movie 1 and drag & drop the first CD's .MPV file to the Movie 1 window. Do the same for the audio. Then double-click Movie 2 and do the same thing, and the same for all following CDs.

If you want to make a menu, make one, but I won't tell you how to do that here. If you want a guide for that check this out.

Now go to Project -> Project Properties and make sure Target System is set to the correct format and that Menu/Slideshow Size is set according to the setting above. Then all you need to do is choose Project -> Compile DVD and specify the path for your final DVD and hit the Start button. After compiling has finished you'll end up with your perfectly working DVD.

Note: Report all problems (if you get any) here in this post, do not PM me about it.

Last edited by negge at 2005-06-27 19:05:26

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