Video Edit
General video editing stuff, like AVI join and merge.
--How
to convert VCD/SVCD To DVD using TMPGEnc
This guide is here to help you converting
VCDs and SVCDs you may have created in the past to DVDs. There
are more ways to do these conversions but the way show here
is probably the best one. We are going to use TMPEGEnc.
Please note that you should not expect the quality of the
DVD to be as good as the DVD movies you buy. The quality will
be the same as the VCD / SVCD you have.
This guide re-encodes the video the MPEG2 DVD. It takes longer
time than the guide you can find here but it is much more
easy. I suggest you follow the other guide though.
First of all you'll need to locate the .dat file
that contains the video in your VCD. It is in a folder called
MPEGAV. Double-click and open this folder.
The file we are looking for will have this name.
Select it and copy it to a folder in your hard disk. Rename
it to video1.dat. Do the same for the same file in the second
CD (and the third...) and name it video2.dat (video3.dat...
etc). Finally you should get this: (note that SVCD have .mpg
files, but this is really no problem, just leave them as they
are).
you get something like this then we are ready
to start encoding. Start TMPEGEnc Plus.
First of all we need to change a setting. Close
the wizard and go Option -> Enviromental Setting. The in
the General tag select the Open sequence files as a movie option
and click OK. Now go File -> Project Wizard to restart the
wizard.
Here select the right Option between PAL and NTSC (1). As audio
format select CBR MPEG-1 Layer II (2).
In the next screen select Browse.
Select All files (1) so that you can see the files with .dat
extension and open video1.dat file.
In the next screen make sure that the same dat file is also
loaded as audio source and click Next (twice).
Here make sure that the lenght is equal to the whole movie and
not only the first part (1). Then set everything as shown here.
I suggest you use 98-99% of the disc. Click Next.
Finally you come to this screen. Select Option (1) if your authoring
program needs it (DVD X Maker does), slect to start immediately
(2) and click OK.
This is it! The encoding starts. Do some patience and it will
soon be over. Select Shut down after finish encoding if you
want to sleep or go somewhere else and leave it encoding. After
the encoding is finished you'll need to author the DVD with
the mpg file you'll get. We have some guides for authoring:
> Using DVD X Maker
> Using TMPGEnc DVD Author
Note:
Sometimes .dat files are corrupted and create problems in TMPEGEnc
Plus such as freezing the program. Since I had some touble I
suggest you get VCDGear software you can find here and perfom
an error fix just before you start encoding:
