when I try to encode a avi file to mpg2 trough DVD2SVCD when the PC starts predicting/encoding the sample screen stays black like it is getting no input, and when it is finnished the next CQ is always 100 and you keep gettig a black screen help me it ha never happed before till 2 days ago..

What is the exac codec of the source ?

it's not working with both XviD and Divx, but before I always did!! it just happend one day I tryed to encode Shrek1, than this problem came and now it is by every thing!! I still have a 30 day trial on my TMPGenc 2.53 and I also have a cracked version (i now it illegal) 2.51 PLUS and both are having the same prob... I tryed al options. BUT when I jsut open TMPG and use the wizard and try to encode a MPEG2 file I DO get an image!! very weird, I want to use D2S plz help me out!

Just verify that :
http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6090

(note : your question has NOTHING to do xith tmpgenc. It's all D2S matter so I moved the thread)

thnx!! it works now! but what exacly did I change? is it now getting better quality or better speeds? becuase al tuts say color conversion @ RGB?

With YV12 you have both better speed and better quality
RGB is the worse mode to use. YUY2 is acceptable.

ok but ya sayd to use no color conversion or is that the same as YV12?
and 1 liitle weird thing now happens when i enocde my happy treefirends dvd, the Xvid file is 200MB and the movie takes 48 min, it encodes @ a CQ of 100 but I do see an image can it be that that will get below 800 MB it looks to high to my cuase Ive never had a 100CQ (well ive never encoded a movie of 48 min as well) the temp file in my default folder is 150 MB and it is @ 25 % so i lokks OK but ik looks weir to me

srry for my bad english im dutch

If you have the last realese of codecs, they all output n YV12 by default so "no conversion" is the same. Now, if DVD2SVCD now allows to select (force) YV12, then do it !

With a good script and a resolution of 480*480 max, CQ=100 is not surprising. Let remember that KVCD is designed to put 120 min per disc.

ok I have them, and I will use no color conversion now on, I always used RGB now I see it goes much faster, but I dont see any quality difference, but I dont care. but I dont understand the ReadAVS.dll thingy, without that it just doenst work, so I will have to use that for now on, plz expalin whta is is, cuase you can also select some of those settings in TMPGenc it sle (environmetal settings) do I have to chage anything there? and do I now have to slect another motion serac precision? i use motion estimate search now, should I go on to high or normal? and how about the DCT componment orso (8,9 or 10bits)?

yes I always use 480*480 (sometimes in PAL or NTSC it becomes 480/576) but i dont know what ya mean with a script (im a newbie)

If you do not use Readavs in tempgenc, the work is done using directshow filters. DS filters are like codecs, piece of software used for decoding the sources. Here you clearly have on tour PC a codec for your kind of source but NOT a ds filter taht can handle it. So you don't have the choice and must use readAvs.

That is why my first question was to know which were the codec (generally we have the opposite situation : people have the DS fitler but not the codec).

Nothing else.

ME is really good and faster as any other solution. So keep it.

Let is on 8 for better results.

Did you select my script in D2S ? The one called "DivxFilter".
You have a line "GripCrop". The two first parameters are the height and the width of the target and D2S will replace them by the correct values (here 480 and 480) during the encoding.
If you want to use 544*480, as d2s does not know this resolution, you must put the value yourself, manually.