I just created a SVCD and was able to put 90minutes on one cd-r 80. It was a DVD copy. I used TMPEGencoder and the quality was great, just like DVD. All fast moving scenes played without any blockyness. The only thing was wrong was that the TV top DVD player played the time realy slow. This little glitch those not bother me because now that I can put one hole movie on one cd is just way to coo, with DVD quality.

If anyone else has created a SVCD and had this problem please post.

SVCD with TMPEGencoder is the only way I will backup my media from now on.

SVCD is

-- P.Machado (pmachado26@hotmail.com), September 05, 2000

Answers

SVCD or XVCD? I doubt you were able to place 90 minutes of 480x480x29.97 of video on one 80 minute cd-r. If you are using any other resolution the resulting disk is not SVCD, and may not playback in all SVCD players.

Not quite sure on this slow audio problem.

-- eric (eric@nospam.snowmoon.com), September 06, 2000.

Wazzup Eric, "YES I DID" I placed 90 minutes of MPEG2 on a cdr-80 the file was around 680mb. I used 480x480 with 23fps (Film Standards), VBR at 1800kbs ( The quality seems to be the same with any thing after 1850). The source was 640x304( Wide-screen DVD, DivX file). I simply played around with screen settings in TMPEGencoder and set the video to have the black top and bottom. I also set the constant quality from 60 default to 55 (I seen no difference in quality), VBR at 1800kbs. I then used NERO 5.0 to burn the SVCD.

I first discovered this when I encoded 68 minutes of The Matrix at 2000kbs VBR and one at 1800kbs VBR. Quality was the same except one file was very large (the 2000kbs) while the file with VBR at 1800kbs and CQ at 55 the file was only 440mb. Then when I went to burn the SVCD with NERO 5.0 I noticed that it would test the file to see if it is compliant. But the file which is 68 minutes long was only showing as 44 minutes (Why, I dont know). And when I played it on my tv top DVD player (Sony). It played the movie perfect, except for the time display was slow.

After watching I said to myself if I can get a 68 minute file (440mb big) with NERO only showing it to be around 44 minutes I should be able to burn a longer video.

I tried and did it. Hey, maybe because the source was wide screen it means something I dont know. All I know is that I can do it and its cool.

YOU HAVE TO TRY IT.

Let me know

-- P.Machado (pmachado26@hotmail.com), September 06, 2000.

the time running slow has to do with the lowered bitrate.u used the time is calculated based on the bitrate and file size, so if u had raised the bitrate the time would run too fast, but since u lowered it, the time runs slow. my sony dvd player (dvp-c600d) does the same thing, but ive seen other brands do it too.which model do u have? mine wont play svcd. it will play mpeg1@480x480, but not an actual vbr mpeg2 svcd. u might be interested in this link- http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003Stf make one of those disks, and the clock will show 1 second has passed when actually five or six have passed!

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), September 06, 2000.

Ndumu, I have the same model as you (DVP-C600D) and it plays both VCD and SVCD. The only thing it doesnt do is play is CD-RW disks.

What programs are you using to make your VCDs and SVCDs. I use Panasonic or TMPEG (sometimes Ligos LSX) and burn with NERO 5.0. But I only use TMPEG for SVCD because I think it works better (but its really slow). NERO 5.0 will take the SVCD mpeg file with no problem. I had trouble using NERO and Ligos encoded files for an SV

-- P.Machado (pachado26@hotmail.com), September 07, 2000.

I forgot to say all the SVCD's I make are Mpeg2.

-- P.Machado (pmachado26@hotmail.com), September 07, 2000.

ive made svcd with mpegvcr,dvmpeg,rempeg2, all which produce vbr mpeg2 files. ive burned them with nero5 and i-author. if i put mpeg1@480x480 and burn that, it plays, but a section of the picture is gone, it does that with every rez i have tried other than 352x240. mpeg2@480x480 wont play at all. ive havent tried tsunami encoder yet, but im in the process of doing so. it just wont play mpeg2 no matter what i do. ive wasted a 50 pack of cdr testing different settings trying to get mpeg2 to work. now that i have tmpeg, im probably gonna waste some more! i gotta get this thing to play cdrw!

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), September 07, 2000.

ndumu, I only use the premade templates (SVCD Film) that comes with Tsunami encoder and change the video settings so the picture has black space on the sides. (If the picture is 480x480 I use picture in center with cutom setings 470x480)this will leave the video at 480x480 with black lines on the side. I also change the CQ settings to a lower VBR so i can fit more on a cd. Let me know what happens.

-- P.Machado (pmachado26@hotmail.com), September 09, 2000.

still no luck. i used the ntsc svcd template,loaded the file into nero 5 to write a svcd, and the disk is recognized as a vcd, it will let me move from track to track, but wont play any of them. gives me a "c13" error message. back to high bitrate VCDs..........

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), September 09, 2000.

sorry to hear that. I once made a VCD or a SVCD that got that message after i pressed play. So i did this. I pressed PLAY waited till it was going to play the CD and then pressed STOP. I then pressed PLAY and the cd worked but i can think if it was a VCD or SVCD.

hope this helps

"what media do you use"

-- P.Machado (pmachado26@hotmail.com), September 11, 2000.

i use alot of different brands of cdr. ive never found one it couldnt read. usually sony, maxell, tdk, memorex,hp,smart&friendly, etc.....

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), September 11, 2000.

I put a DVD in a blender since I wasn't strong enough to rip it. Now it won't play on any machine! What gives???

-- tough guy (Jimbo@aol.com), April 12, 2001.

hi machado....first of all im suprised that you actually fit 90 min svcd on a cdr (dvd copy)....my question is did you use tmpgenc to rip the dvd file ? or did you use other prog...i use dvd2avi to rip the vob file then use tmpgenc to encode to svcd which i could only fit 50 min of video....tell me how you did it ...looks interesting

-- poy (dginopoy@aol.com), April 13, 2001.

Can Anyone tell me how to Copy a Dvd on a 80 min Cd that quickest way.....thanks people for your help!

-- Iceman (dj_iceburg@hotmail.com), May 26, 2001.

I encoded a vob file with dolby digital 5.1 sound if you want to know how email me. the down side is that it will fit on two cd instead of one but i don't care because the sound and the picture quilty is greate.

-- m.arshad (arshad786uk@yahoo.com), June 27, 2001.