I would like to convert every now and then some of my DivX movies to SVCD, and since I have Nero 6.3 already there, and I am not too picky about quality in this case, I was wondering what the people around here think about it.

I am using the Nero Vision Express application, and it seems really simple, but does the job. I have started a test encode today, while I am at work, so I will see it later on when I return.

In any case, I would appreciate some comments about the quality I can expect (using the High Quality 2-pass option).

Also, I am aiming for 2 cds for most of the movies, but I haven't seen any way to tell it to use 700Mb cds when autoadjusting the bitrate, or to tell it that I will use 2 cds, and not just one... Tips? For now I am adjusting the bitrate manually, and I will split the exported file... "somehow"

EDIT: Update, I have checked the progress, and for now I have the feeling that is quite quite fast! I am starting to doubt the quality...

Since nobody is replying, I will just mention that it is quite fast, and in my first couple of encodes, it seemed to be ok, but I didn't do any serious testing...

I just need SVCDs to watch on my standalone, not crazy about top-notch quality anyway...

In my opinion, the NERO suite is the best bang for the buck as far as a multimedia tool. What also is great is that there is a monthly upgrade as of the suite keeps improving. It does cost some money, but then again jobs get created.

I also think that DIVX (to change the subject) and their 20-40 dollars that they are asking is far superior to XVID, which is standardless. Especially if you have a stand-alone DVD player that does plays compressed movies like I do. I wish more people would use Divx, just so their would be more and less expensive stand-alone DVD players that play compressed format.

I do believe that sometimes, it is not "cool" to rip, encode, burn, unless at least 10 products are being used and it takes at least two days for perfection. I don't think a commercial product like Nero is considered very "cool" around here.

Jon

That is wrong; both DivX and XviD are MPEG4-codecs and thus comply to that standard. What DivX has done is defining profiles (i don't mean the official "simple profile" and "advanced simple profile") within that standard. This is a. good, because it ensures compatibility with DivX-certified players, which is a much better situation than the (alledged) MPEG4-players there were before. But it is also b. a little bit bad, because some of the ASP features (multiples cons. b-frames, GMC, QPEL) are not within these profiles. So a DivX player is still not a MPEG4 ASP player.



All DVD-players play compressed format, namely MPEG2 (and usually MPEG1 as well)

(Completely OT though... recycle bin again?)

Fine by me

I would like to mention that I have discarded Nero, and now use DIKO to create KSVCDs instead