ReMPEG2 Guide

You must have all the necessary vob files already on your harddisk and have ripped with an IFO parsing capable ripping program. 

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Step 1: Transcode the video

Fire up ReMPEG2. Go to the main tab.

Press the Open button and load your VOBs. You must create a streamlist and load the streamlist rather than single VOBs. The streamlist must have "CFFL" written in the first line, of course without the " 's. After that ReMPEG2 will analyze the video, you can see what exactly it does by going to the Log and Statistics tab. After the analyzing is done go to the Options tab.

Set the desired output resolution (generally it's the middle resolution.. ReMPEG will automatically set the vertical resolution according to what movie you've loaded). Then set your bitrate: Scale factor means how much the video bitrate is going to be scaled down. I chose an average bitrate of about 2MBit/s. Then check limit max bitrate and set it to 2600KBit/s or lower in order to respect the SVCD specs. If you dare you can also play around with the bit allocation adjustments, read the readme file to find out what exactly those do. If you notice interlacing artifacts then you have to change Frame Mode to match source.

Step 2: Transcoding the audio

ReMPEG2 now comes with an ac3 -> MPEG 2 multichannel transcoder which is supposed to work.. tough I can't verify it myself since I have no hardware capable of playing such a file. You can once again use your streamlist or you can for instance use vstrip to extract the audio and then run it thru the transcoder. Of course all the other alternatives are still valid - that is run it thru FlaskMpeg (make sure you open the VOBs instead of the ifo this time since we got rid of multiangles), or use Graphedit/Total Recorder.

If you haven't found it by now: the audio transcoder can be found in the Tools section. You can change the ac3 stream by changing the AC3 Stream ID. Strangely the 448kbit/s settings are missing. Might be an idea for a future release.

Now it's time to go back to learn how to cut, mux and burn.