Convert SVCD to DVD

Feb 18, '05 09:10:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

With DVD burners now a standard feature in many Macs, people are looking for ways to convert their old SVCDs to DVDs. This is a very easy process, but it took me a little investigative work to find the best way to do it.

  1. Tools: The tools used here can either be downloaded and compiled individually, or borrowed from ffmpegx. The easiest way is to download ffmpegx and simply copy them from within the application -- control-click on the ffpmegx application, navigate to Contents -> Resources, and copy them to a sane location (such as /usr/local/bin or /opt/local/bin). For this particular task, you'll only need two tools: vcdxrip and mpgtx.

  2. Use vcdxrip to rip the MPEG layer out of the SVCD. It will create a file called avstream01.mpg. Be careful to rename this after it's complete, as running another instance of vcdxrip will overwrite this file. Examples:
    $ vcdxrip -b vcd.bin
    $ vcdxrip -c /dev/cdrom
    
  3. Join the MPEGs into one large MPEG using mpgtx. Examples:
    $ mpgtx -j -o  joined.mpg part1.mpg part2.mpg
    
  4. Burn the joined MPEG using Toast or another recording package.
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one. Please note that, although built from open source tools, ffmpegx is a shareware package. If it saves you time and effort, you should consider supporting the author's efforts, or get the two tools from their free sources: vcdxrip is part of VCDImager, and mpgtx is a standalone program.]

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