My 2 cents.
I have made 24 svcd with removable subtitles (2 CDs per movie).
This format - svcd CD layout format, not mpeg2 - is theoretically very nice : 1 CDs per hour with DVD2SVCD, 2 stereo audio tracks and up to 4 removable subtitles. However I have decided to stop using this format because I could not get it work 100% on my box. 2 audio tracks and 1 sub on 2 CDs being my limit.
Here are other reasons :
- there is 2 "standards" for svcd subs stream : CVD, a chinese format and SVCD, a format from Phillips.
- today my DVD Player reads CVD subs, but what about the next one I'll get?
- today my DVD player reads everything *but* 528x576, however I could never get it play svcd with 2 subs stream correctly (disappearing subs).
- you can have a mini-ATX PC/Nix box under your TV playing svcds, but no PC player can read subs today and only "sthsvcd" de herosoft - a chinese svcd player - enables you to select your svcd second audio track.
- for 1 CD always and 128 sound, the quality I get with KVCD and watched on a regular TV set suits my taste.
Today with VobSub 2_23 installed, I use "VobSub Configure" to rip subs, and then the following kind of script served to TMPGENC :
Code:
LoadPlugin("F:\VIDEO\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2DEC\MPEG2DEC2.DLL")
mpeg2source("H:\VCDS\VCD_SA~1\DVD2AV~1.D2V")
LoadPlugin("f:\video\avisynth\legalclip.dll")
LoadPlugin("f:\video\avisynth\gripfit_preview.dll")
LoadPlugin("f:\video\avisynth\dustv5.dll")
LoadPlugin("f:\video\avisynth\TemporalCleanerold.dll")
LoadPlugin("f:\video\avisynth\vobsub.dll")
LegalClip()
Letterbox(0,0,0,0)
GripCrop(width=352,height=576,overscan=2,source_anamorphic=True)
GripSize()
Spacedust()
TemporalCleaner()
LegalClip()
GripBorders()
VobSub("d:\dvdump\dvd_xxxx\vts_01_0") # this is the file name of the ripped subs
Cheers.