Hello. I figured out KVCD is the way to go now for converted XViD movies to 1CD. But I have a few questions (I don't think I can even remember all my questions):
1. Using TMPGEnc to encode the movie. Do I only have to load the AVS file (dialhotv4) and not a KVCD template?
2. Does a higher resolution make the filesize bigger? I always assumed it did, but now I'm not so sure. Resolution 528x480 is closest to the resolution of the source (XViD) file.
3. I have encoded a sample XViD movie (1 minute in length) and the smallest size I could get with the KVCD 120 minute on 1CD template (KVCD-CQ-352x480-_NTSCFilm_-PLUS.mcf) was 8,8MB of video only .M1V. So that means I wouldn't even be able to fit 100 minutes on 1CD (100 (minutes) x 8,8MB (video) + ~90MB (audio) = too much).
-- My goal --
4. I would like to use dialhot's AVS script to encode my movie, of course, with the best quality possible for 1 CD. Which programs do you recommend for the not-so-experienced user? I read all the guides over and over again, but they don't use AVS scripts, use outdated programs and I've been reading about all this for days and getting totally confused with everything.
My current AVS script looks like this (the sample is NTSC):
Code:
AviSource("E:\SVCD\testfile.avi",false)
BlindPP(cpu=4)
Blockbuster(method="noise",detail_min=1,detail_max=3,variance=0.1,seed=1)
Convolution3D(1, 6, 12, 6, 8, 2.8, 0)
GripCrop(352, 480, overscan=1, source_anamorphic=false)
GripSize(resizer="LanczosResize")
Undot()
TemporalSoften(2,7,7,3,2)
DCTFilter(1,1,1,1,1,1,0.5,0)
#Blockbuster(method="noise",detail_min=1,detail_max=10,variance=0.3,seed=5623)
GripBorders()
TextSub("E:\SVCD\testfile.srt")
Subtitles work pretty well in the sample, to my surprise. The only thing is.. when two lines are shown, one line ends up in the black area and the other on top of it, in the movie. Just a little annoyance, but isn't really that bad. I just want to create a good XViD (most movies are around 100 minutes)->KVCD on 1CD.
Thanks... (probably forgot a lot of questions, but my head is about to explode)