hello i am new to the forum and see many people who i am sure can help me get results. I have the need to encode an avi file to a standard mpeg to make a kvcd on cd-r but i can not find an encoder that i can get to work. i do have tmpg but i don't undertsand how to use it ...also i have a cucusoft avi to mpeg creator but it leaves a nasty watermark right in mid screen and i am afraid to order it online because ive seen posts that people cant get it to work properly .....any advice??
First, learn an encoder. TMPGenc is rather good and has he only bad feature to be slow for multipass encoding (SVCD or KVCD-2). Therefore, to do VCDs is very good and free. TMPGenc needs to be Plus only to encode SVCD and/or to open MPEG-2 movies, but it opens all AVIs. Second: KVCD are slightly complicated because they are VBR even in their simplest form (KVCD 352x240/288). The difference of KVCD's CQ encoding rispect to SVCD VBR encoding are: 1) CQ is much more faster than VBR 2) CQ final size is less predictable , VBR is exact. about their quality, I don't know.. About the prevision of the final size, I learned mostly from http://www.desitorrents.com/forums/faq.php?faq=how_do_i [read [bold]convert DVD to KVCD?[/bold]] (but this method isn't always precise). About other encoders, I don't know what else to suggest you....CCE is very good but extremaly expensive. I didn't try other encoders. KVCD are only supported by TMPGenc and (I read it has a KVCD plugin, but I didn't test it) DVD2SVCD...
