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MrDVD
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Posted - May 5 2001 : 11:57PM
http://www6.tomshardware.com/video/00q3/000913/index.html

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Posted - May 6 2001 : 1:32AM
VCDHelp

is also another great resource with step by steps on what to do.
you can choose
VCD, SVCD, XVCD, XSVCD, ASF or DiVx as your encoding method of choice...

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2dvd
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Posted - May 10 2001 : 12:13AM
I heard that these things takes all day?
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Posted - May 10 2001 : 1:06PM
2DVD: That depends. I've been doing that since the day the first version of DivX came out :) At the moment I'm converting more VHS than DVD to CD-ROM. How long it takes you depends very much on your hardware, the tools you are using, the quality you want and on how many CD-ROMs you want the video to fit. The pure conversion isn't that difficult, but using filters for deinterlacing and bicubic resizing need some time. When converting from VHS you can also use some extra filters for stabilizing and denoising the picture. A lot of CPU power is needed for that. A whole 90 minute film can take about 6-11 hours to encode in general without the use of heavy filters. Since you'll certainly want to use DivX or another MPEG4-variant you'll have to live with the fact that it's a variable bitrate codec, so you can estimate how big the file(s) will become using a certain bitrate, but it'll never be exact. If you know you want the file(s) to have a certain size, you'll have to use multipass-encoding which encodes the same film twice in order to be able to set the right bitrate for the given filesize, but it'll also take you twice the time. Since I'm kind of a quality maniac and don't want to spend hours calculating file sizes and bitrates (like I used to do at the beginning ;)) I somewhen started to always use a bitrate of 3000 kbps, which is certainly more than many people out there are using, and to put the film on 3 CD-ROMs. I know it may sound a bit ridiculous, but putting a film on only one CD-ROM reduces the quality too much for my taste, although you should be able to reach VCD-quality. And we all know some day DVD-RAM is going to be very cheap, or they'll invent some wonder-crystal with a capacity of 1 Terabyte or something like that ;) When that day comes you can simply copy all the CD-ROMs to another medium and don't have to encode the source again in order to have better quality. Of course you should copy the codec as well since MPEG9 might be incompatible with DivX ;)
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Evil_Rip
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Posted - May 10 2001 : 11:08PM
In the end I prefer MPEG-1/VCD for most VHS.
SVCD is also nice.
DivX is also great depends on what you want to preserve.

VCD is the fastest to encode. Especially with the latest TMPGEnc tools.
with my Athlon 850Mhz I get 2:1 encoding time.
(Two minutes of encoding time for every One minute of video you have)
DiVx I'm getting around 5:1 encoding time.


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Posted - May 16 2001 : 2:28PM
thanks guys. the time is too much for my taste.
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