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Convert SVCD to DVD
Authored by: thoughton on Feb 18, '05 03:20:38PM

I couldn't understand why this hint would possibly work in the way described, so I gave it a try. As a result I defy anyone to turn a SVCD into a DVD with these highly incomplete instructions :-)

Aside from numerous omissions (where did the vcd.bin file come from? where has he copied vcdxrip to? did he include the path to vcdxrip in his .profile file?) there are so many other things wrong:

1. vcdxrip from the latest version of ffmpegX (0.0.9s) does not recognise the -c flag.

2. at least on my Mac (10.3.8), after inserting a SVCD (or a VCD) you cannot access it at /dev/cdrom

3a. the only way you're going to end up with a DVD this way is if you use Toast 6's 'video' tab and let it re-encode the SVCD's 480x480 video and 44.1KHz audio into 720x480 video and 48KHz audio. This is going to take hours and will significantly reduce the visual quality. The 'geekier' method described in the first reply above is a far better way of maintaining quality (although possibly at the expense of compatibility, some DVD players won't play SVCD resolution files from a DVD).

3b. on the other hand, if you simply burn the 480x480 44.1KHz mpeg2 in UDF format via Toast's 'data' tab, Toast will not re-encode it. But all you're going to end up with is a DVD containing a muxed mpeg2 file. This isn't a valid DVD structure, so the vast majority of DVD players won't recognise it.



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vcdxrip alternatives
Authored by: thoughton on Feb 18, '05 03:26:57PM

Instead of using vcdxrip to extract the mpeg you can also just download Gumby or VCDXtools. (VCDXtools is no longer supported, and is kind of hard to find these days, but it still works perfectly.)



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Yet another way of ripping mpeg stream from SVCD
Authored by: tetsuotheironman on Feb 20, '05 08:11:24AM

like the original post states, the VCD ripping application gives an incomplete copy of .bin file.
You can also use VLC to do this (as VLC is able to access SVCD volumes fine)
Just go to 'File/Open' select the SVCD volume and check the box for 'Advanced output'
you can then configure it to just dump the raw input to a file (or transcode it if you so desire). After dumping (goes faster than real time in most cases), you'll have the full mpg file at your disposal.



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Convert SVCD to DVD
Authored by: wallybear on Feb 21, '05 01:29:00PM

1) The ffmpeg version of vcdxrip does not accept the -c parameters
2) there is no /dev/cdrom device

you can accomplish the same task with the following syntax:

vcdxrip -b /dev/disk2

where "disk2" is the mount point of your optical unit (disk2 in my case as I have two hard drives, disk0 and disk1). You can find the mount point using this command from Terminal (insert a CDor DVD first):

$ mount
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/swap 1 (local)
/dev/disk0s5 on /Volumes/Backup (local, journaled)
/dev/disk1s10 on /Volumes/Macintosh HD (local, journaled)
/dev/disk2s1 on /Volumes/MYCD (local)

In this case /dev/disk2s1 is the optical reader. Remove the "s1" suffix and you'll get the device (/dev/disk2) to be used with vcdxrip.

That's all



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