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**ChickenMan** · 16-03-2003

A few problems, the audio of the DVD (AC3 etc) are not suported in SVCD and must be converted to 2ch STEREO, the 48khz can be retained however.

SVCD's are difficult to include animated menus (if the DVD had one) and I only know of the Phillips SVCD Toolkit that can do them.

The normal approach to this for me would be to encode the main movie to SVCD as usual using DVD2SVCD (to the normal 2 or 3 CD's) then encode the Extras individually (by setting the disk size proportinally to get an acceptable final bitrate) and depending on their size, burn 1, 2, 3, etc to a CDR.

16-03-2003	#2 (permalink)
ChickenMan Senior Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Oz Posts: 2,645	A few problems, the audio of the DVD (AC3 etc) are not suported in SVCD and must be converted to 2ch STEREO, the 48khz can be retained however. SVCD's are difficult to include animated menus (if the DVD had one) and I only know of the Phillips SVCD Toolkit that can do them. The normal approach to this for me would be to encode the main movie to SVCD as usual using DVD2SVCD (to the normal 2 or 3 CD's) then encode the Extras individually (by setting the disk size proportinally to get an acceptable final bitrate) and depending on their size, burn 1, 2, 3, etc to a CDR.