TMPEGEnc Guide
Welcome to my favorite. Although this is the most complicated way to make a VCD/SVCD the quality is superb and the encoder is really powerful. There's almost nothing you can't somehow change. Unfortunately there's no official English version out so you'll have to live with the current patched version. TMPEGEnc allows you to encode the audio if you have an AC3 file and the Intervideo Direct Show filters installed. These filters are in the Graphedit package. This requires that you have demultiplexed the AC3 track of your liking. DVD2AVI does that for you and if you don't feel like demultiplexing or if you use FlaskMpeg then just read on.
Load your Video (and audio) source. TMPEGEnc can read
avs files, d2v files, avi files and it's own projects: tpr files.
Press Load and select the right settings (NTSC-VCD or PAL-VCD, NTSC-SVCD.mcf, NTSC-SVCD-pulldown.mcf, NTSC-SVCD-interlaced.mcf or PAL-SVCD-mcf). The NTSC-SVCD-interlaced.mcf is for movies that contain incorrect rff flags and that you deinterlaced in FlaskMpeg or standard interlaced movies which you decode at 29.97fps in FlaskMpeg.). Then select your .avs script, your .d2v DVD2AVI project or AVI file as Video input. Set Output stream type to System (Video+Audio) If you use DVD2AVI you will have the demultiplexed files already loaded according to the instructions in that guide and if you have an AVI you'll either already have the audio track in the AVI or you can load an external WAV or AC3 file - the latter provided that you have Direct Show filters that allow AC3 playback. Of course you'll have to set Stream Type to System (Video + Audio) if you are encoding both audio and video. If you use Avisynth then you have to load the avs scrip as audio source as well.
The
only thing you have to change when loading the scripts is the bitrate
stuff for SVCDs. I normally use CQ_VBR, which uses a variable quantization
scale in order to ensure the same quality during the whole movie. Pressing
the Settings button will allow you to specify the max and min bitrate
as well as the Q factor. If you're using FlaskMpeg multipass or DVD2AVI
you can also use the 2pass VBR mode, which will encode the movie in 2
runs, and which will result in a better quality - but if course it will
take twice as long.
If you're encoding from an interlaced source you'll have
to check interlaced, if you're encoding from a 23.976fps source you have
to check 3:2 pulldown on playback and uncheck Interlaced (these settings
are already in the profiles).
In
the advanced options you can set the properties of your source. If your
source is interlaced (for instance you're decoding at 29.97fps without
deinterlacing in FlaskMpeg, or you have not checked Preserve FILM in DVD2AVI)
you have to set video source type to Interlaced. The field order is usually
correct, but just to be sure encode a couple 100 frames and watch it..
if it looks really bad switch the field order.
When you use DVD2AVI as source you have to change Source aspect ratio to 16:9, otherwise it's 4:3. Of course you have to select the corresponding TV format to your source.
Fit to frame is the right setting for FlaskMpeg, for DVD2AVI you have to select Fit to frame (preserve aspect ratio).
If you're doing audio as well click on the audio tab and
chose a bitrate.
Then press OK and Start in the main window. Watch as it slowly encodes.