Hello everybody.
First I'd like to say that I'm new around here and in the world of DVD decod.
I'm also Portuguese and I've been here on the UK for the past two and a half years so it's gonna be normal that you may see some written erros for wich I apologise.
Here's my problem.
Due to the lak of space at home I just started converting my DVDs into SVCDs ussing either DVD to VCD SVCD AVI converter or A1 DVD converter.
When ussing these software I always use the following settings,

OUTPUT FRAME RATE: 25.0 PAL
AUDIO/VIDEO SYNCHRONISATION CHECKED
VOLUME 10
FORCE 24HZ UNCHEKED

VIDIO BITRATE: 2376
AUDIO BITRATE: 224
RESOLUTION: 720*576
ZOOM : FULL 16:9 OR 4:3 INPUT

With all this done there's no problem whatsoever, the SVCD file is OK and the sound/vidio quality is really great.

After this I use another software to burn SVCD into a DVD-Rom wich is DVD-Pal and I think that it's in here when I loose my sound quality. This software is really great as you can creat menus and everything on a DVD.

I use the following settings on this software when creatting the SVCD DVD.

TARGET SYSTEM: PAL
PROJECT SIZE: 720*576 (FULL D1) (the same as I used to convert the DVD into SVCD)

Until here everything is OK but when I import an asset ( the already converted SVCD file) it imports and it demultiplex it to elementary streams (highly recomended) when it's finished pops up this error about the sound wich is: WRONG FREQUENCY, DVD SUPPORTS MPEG AUDIO 48 KHZ, FILE FREQUENCY 44.1 KHZ, YOU CAN RESAMPLE THE FILE WITH TRANSCODE AUDIO IN TOOLS, I then clik on OK and the transcode audio option pops up and It uses the default settings wich are:
MPEG AUDIO -> MPEG AUDIO 48 KHZ
BITRATE: OPTIMAL.

Anybody any help is most apreciated as I'm a bit lost here but I'm quite sure that the problem here is when I convert the audio on the last process ussing the transcode audio to convert it from 44.1 khz to 48 khz.

Thanks in advance for all your help.
I really need to convert all my DVDs into SVCD so that I can have like two or three movies in just one DVD.

Cheers to everybody,
T Bopne

Original dvd audio is 48 kHz.
Svcd is 44.1 kHz.
so you go from 48 -> 44.1 -> 48.
You should try to keep your audio at 48 kHz.

Hello.
OK then, but how do I do that?
I mean, I must convert it from the original 48 khz to 44.1 khz when converting the DVD into SVCD and then when using the DVD-Pal it says:

c:\nameofthefile.mpa
cause: wrong frequency, DVD suports MPEG audio 48 Khz
You can resample the file with transcode audio
MPEG audio -> MPEG audio 48 Khz

By doing this I have converted back to the original 48 Khz however its here that I'm loosing the sound quality, whenever there's action scenes I get this sort of rain sound on the speakers almost having the felling that if I don't turn the volume done I'll most defenlly damage the speakers.

Cheers
TBone

You shouldn't convert to svcd at all. Just use cce to do a low-bitrate dvd encoding. See doom9.org's guides for reference.

Hello.
I'm quite new at this thing and really I don't know what you mean by CCE.
Anyway I'm on my way to doom9's website and will do some research.
By the way by doing the way you sugest can I have like at the very least 2 DVD movies on a DVD?

Cheers
T Bone

Doom9 CCE FAQ
if you make them small enough, yes.
that means to get rid of subtitles, menus and audio streams that you don't need, and in this case reencode the movie part to a lower quality.
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdr-guides.htm

you must have a horribly small amount of space if you go through this process to cut the number of CDs in half... how many DVDs do you got?
you might consider using DL-DVDs then if you can spare the money and have compatible hardware.

edit: spelling

i'd use QuEnc rather than CCE, but there's no solid proof out there of one being better than the other (QuEnc handles interlace beutifully, so i love it as i have heaps of field-blended anime that'll kill most mpeg-2 at low bitrates).

ditch 5.1 audio, and any DTS (HUGE files). i wouldn't worry about subs - they're nearly negligible unless you've got exceptional sources (like Kare Kano or something like that with 6000 subs per episode).

3 movies on a DVD-5 will be pushing it though. half-D1 might be a good idea (352x576/480) to get more out of your codec.

DVDReBuilder might be useful for you. but i'd just use Shrink and go 1 movie per DVD-5.

shitty quality is probably more due to the transcoding 'ac3 - > mp2 - > something', find the solution which will keep original audio intact.

i would get some sort of standalone component which can play xvid/ac3 mux, then you can really put 3 movies on one dvd without much hassle.