DVD2SVCD: Image and audio choppy quality!
 

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All right, I make my living installing, configuring and managing networks - firewalls, e-mail, file and print, portals, desktop and server management, etc...

But when I read through these forums, you might as well be writing in Chinese!

I am trying to copy DVD using DVD2SVCD v1.2.1 and TMPGEnc. I've downloaded the "KDVD-720x480-Full-D1-_NTSC_.mcf" template and copied it to my TMPGEnc template directory (according to a test CD I downloaded, my DVD player supports this format - a Panasonic DVD-RV32). I've followed Avalon's guide to using DVD2SVCD to make KVCDs.

In one of his screenshots, he mentions that I should select MPEG-2 as the "Output File Type" in the Misc tab, but instead I have SVCD DVD and VCD. I selected SVCD.

Everything looks like it works fine, except when I stick the CD in my player - the image is clear, but choppy as hell, as is the sound!

I'd appreciate any clear guidelines as to why this is happening. What am I missing? Or doing wrong?

ANy help would be Greatly Appreciated!

Thanks!

Jacques

Hello jsauve,

Have you tried this: http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2464

-kwag

Hi Kwag

Yes, I DID try that! I was able to play most of them, including the kvcd-704x480 PLUS.

Jacques

All samples provided by Kwag are in MPEG 1 :!:

Yeah...ok? What does that mean to my problem?

Jacques

That means that you tested your standalone player with MPEG1 samples and it was okay. Now you are encoding in MPEG2 and it's choppy.

So... ?

Select VCD under DVD2SVCD settings and everything should be okay !

(in its last version DVD2SVCD renamed "MPEG1" and "MPEG2" option to "VCD" and "SVCD". Very confusing :-()

Ah! Ok...now it's starting to make sense.

One more question, though: how does DVD2SVCD know to use the KVCD MCF template for TMPGEnc that I downloaded and copied to the TMPGEnc template directory?

Jacques

It doens't. But I think that Avalon provides a ini file for DVD2SVCD in its guide ? If not, you aren't doing KVCD so :-(