VCD/SVCD/miniDVD GuideStep 1: Choose your decoderVCDs, SVCDs and miniDVDs can be created with a variety of decoders. A decoder is a program that decodes the VOB streams and offers it to another program or plugin to encoder. Despite popular belief, FlaskMpeg for instance is no encoder, just a decoder. It will simply provide the output to a premiere plugin which will then do the encoding. There's 2 decoders and two de/encoders combinations:
For simplicity FlaskMpeg is the ideal choice as it's pretty easy to learn and offers a lot of options. DVD2AVI is an excellent alternative, since it's output can be used to create reference AVIs which are very small AVI files that can be used as if you had decoded the whole VOB to an uncompressed video format. If you have a software DVD player installed you should also be able to directly load the VOBs using avisynth. DVD2MPG is basically a software DVD player and it uses premiere plugins to decode. However, it can only use the Panasonic plugin or output to AVI. ReMPEG is a true transcoder, you feed it with MPEG2 and you end up with MPEG2 video. I strongly suggest that you stay with one of marked encoders. These two have proved to be the best available. >> Chose one of the following programs |