KVCD Guide and How-to Central

[shanum]

Hi everybody!!

I am new to the whole KVCD thing... i have been lurking around this site for sometime and the thought of 2 hrs near-DVD quality video on one CD-R really tickles my fancy but sadly i havent experienced it so far i have been facing frustration after frustration and right now I'm about to send myself to an asylum..

See, thing is that i am not any kind of computer super wizz... coding and programing is like way out of my league... i need something where i can go click, next, ok, yes, create, burn... something without all this mind boggling code...

Dont accuse me of not searching i've done some... maybe not enough but i'm in shreds now... i've tried DIKO... got farthest with this.. but created a file that was 870mb, was jerky and without sound... Then comes the guide where i have to use MovieStacker and Avisynth... that was pure hell for me...

So my point is I thought it would be nice if we could gather all the Guides and How-To's on making KVCD either from DVD or AVI in one place to make them easier to find. Maybe this can help alleviate the pain...

If you know any Guide or How To please post a link here...

Thanks y'all

[incredible]

If the KVCD process and the "KVCD spirit" would be that easy, ... we wouldn't need a forum like this

So the only thing I don't understand is that you created a Poll!

I did my first KVCD using TOK and its automatisms, but when you get in touch a bit with the details of the Programms you will se that dark will become light.

So you should read a bit more the existing guides (espec. the DIKO one as you intended to use it) or ask your questions by opening threads and not polls

But ... .... welcome in here ... and if you got "explicit" questions, just ask.

[rds_correia]

Hi shanum,
I also don't understand why you opened a poll instead of a simple post.
I understand you when you say that it should be simpler process to encode a movie.
Several users have tried to create GUIs for command line tools we use
regularly, such
as hedix with his TokVCD.
But things here change fast and methods/processes too.
This way a GUI get's outdated pretty fast and they have to start it all over again.
I came as a guest for months to check on posts that could help me use the tools manually
and suddenly I started to understand some things.
How? Asking of course.
So if you feel you searched enough and have some more specific questions to post,
by all means, shoot.
But if you want to know a step by step, never failing procedure, then I got to be honest with you.
That doesn't exist. Believe me because I learnt it the hard way.
Oh, and I keep learning everyday, here
Cheers

[jorel]

hy shanum !


one friend of mine here(Phil...you will know him) posted something like this:

"here we got good encodes, not fast results"
....something like this!

this is the spirit of this forum.....quality and frienship!
need help?
post!
time?......we have!


welcome in forum

[kwag]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jorel

one friend of mine here(Phil...you will know him)

Yes he soon will

-kwag

[Dialhot]

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwag

Yes he soon will

Lucky him

[shanum]

Thanks guys for making me feel welcome... yeah i probably should have posted in a topic... but anyways its done now...

as for questions... i made a script for avisynth using moviestacker but some of the 'commands' (if thats the right word) are not recognised by avisynth... here's my script...

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\undot\Undot.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\blockbuster.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\atc.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\DctFilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\blockbuster.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Sampler.dll")

AviSource("F:\Movies\BB\c2.avi",false)AddBorders(0, 0, 0, 8)
Tweak(Bright=300)
LanczosResize(528, 576, 0, 0, 640, 424) 
BlindPP(cpu=4)

Blockbuster(method="noise",detail_min=1,detail_max=3,variance=0.1,seed=1) 
ATC(2,3,5,0.5,false) 
#GripCrop(528, 576, 0, 0, 640, 424) 
#GripSize(resizer="LanczosResize") 
Undot() 
TemporalSoften(2,7,7,3,2) 
DCTFilter(1,1,1,1,1,1,0.5,0) 
#GripBorders(8,8,8,8)

AviSource("F:\Movies\BB\c2.avi")
AddBorders(0, 0, 0, 8)
AssumeFPS(25.000, true)

As u can see i cancelled all the Gripxxx commands... its the only way i could get the thing to work... also the tweak command which i guess is supposed to increase the brightness does make a difference when i play the script in WMP...

then... i couldnt figure out how to use tmpgenc coz in the guide i had seemed like he was talking about another prog altogether... so i tried CCE (trial)... at least i got it to work but couldnt find where to change the Q factor... so i just reduced the bitrate to get a smaller file

so if u guys can help out... u'd be saving my life... ... i got to sleep... 8am... thats crazy... but hey at least i'm encoding something for now

goodnight fellas...

[isseldor]

shanum
you need to use GripFit_preview.dll for the grip commands to work. When you open Moviestacker there is a box to check "use GripFit" check that and your script will reflect the change.

I dont use CCE so I can't help you with that but I've had very good success with TMPGEnc.
When you start TMPGEnc cancel the wizard. Then load whatever KVCD template need. Which can be found here http://www.kvcd.net/dvd-models.html
Then click on the browse button next to video source. Find your avs script and click ok.

[andybno1]

I know this is goin offtopic to what is bein discussed but its ties in with the title of post - KVCD Guide, anyone doin any updates to kvcd guides? and how come the KDVD guides are done using CCE? I'm a vowed tmpgenc user and not seen a KDVD guide using tmpgenc, sure I can do a KVCD/DVD quite well now but I still think that the KVCD guide could do with an update an for a KDVD guide to appear using tmpgenc.

but thats just my opinion oh and don't ask me to do a guide I'm rubbish at guides besides I'm not keyed up on most of the stuff u lot boggle my mind with :P

righty thats my ramblin over with I bid u Adiour (pardon the spelling wasn't good with french) I'm out PEACE!!!

[shanum]

hi all!

just thought i'd make amends just in case i scared anyone away from kvcd by saying it was too hard... i still am no comp wizz and i am yet to make a working kvcd... but i am getting there and the results i am seeing are worth all the effort i put into it...

so if you are playing with the idea of kvcd-ing or thinking of giving up dont... the community here offers so much help even a retard could make a kvcd...

cheers!