How To Make A Kvcd

how to make a kvcd or in other words how to get 700meg avi file down to about 450megs to make


a vcd without any picture loss

so youve download a movie its in avi format you want to watch it on your dvd player so


you reencode it it comes out to about 1100 maybe 1200 megs so you got to split it and save on


2 disks well the following tut will show you how to do it on one disk

first you are going to need some tools

virtualdub

CODE


http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/virtualdub/VirtualDub-1.5.10.zip

heada3che

CODE


http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav/download/headac3he-0.23a.rar

and some dlls

CODE


http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/MPAlib_MMX-1.00(1.50).rar


http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/ssrc_MMX-1.01(1.28).rar


http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/Vorbis_MMX-1.20(1.74).rar


http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/Lame_enc_MMX-1.28(3.93).rar


http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/MP2enc_MMX-1.15(1.13).rar

put the above dlls in the same folder as heada3che

besweet

CODE


http://dspguru.notrace.dk/BeSweetv1.4.zip


http://dspguru.notrace.dk/BeSweetGUIv0.6.zip

put these 2 in the same folder

you will have to have nero as well but im hoping you have that already if not it on this forum

tmpegnc

again its on this forum

you will need some templates

CODE


http://www.kvcd.net/dvd-models.html

right click all the pal templates if your dvd player is pal or ntsc if ntsc

save them to the template folder in the tmpegnc folder

so to begin

open virtualdub

goto file


open video file

locate the avi file you want to convert


if you get a warning ignore it


click the audio button at the top


make sure source audio and direct stream copy have a black dot next to it


goto file


save wav


now you have to call this with a .ac3 extension


for example view from the top.ac3


i would save this in the same file your avi is


so youve named it press save


box will open let it do its thing this is taking the sound from the film


now press audio and select no audio


you should have a black dot next to no audio and direct stream copy


goto video


select direct stream copy


goto file save as avi


save the file what you want again put in the same folder as the original avi


to make life easier i call mine the film title no sound ie viewfromthetopnosound


press save


this is now saving the film without sound

you can now close virtualdub

open besweet


scary looking box appears


dont worry heres what to do


at the besweet.exe locate the besweet folder it will show besweet.exe in the enter file name box


click on this and at the bottom it will say valid press ok


now goto input and find the ac3 file we just made you will need to change the enter file name from .Lst to .ac3


double click on the ac3 file you made and at the bottom it will say valid press ok


now looking at the gui make sure Use ac3 decoder is tick


downconvert sample rate is ticked


in the toolame dropdown box make sure it says mp2 leave the rest alone


now press copy command to clipboard


goto start


run


and right click paste


press ok


if all the settings are correct a black box will open and the ac3 will be transcoding to mp2


if not check the boxes are ticked


if ok leave it to do its thing


once the black box has disappered close besweet

open heada3che


hopefully you put all the dlls in the heada3che folder other wise you will get error messages


so make sure you do that


done it ok lets go


press source file


find the new mp2 file we just made


change the destination format to mp2


press start


thats it once its finished close headac3he

for your info


things are going to start looking messy inside your folder so if you want


you can delete some things


goto the folder where youre original avi file is


you can delete the ac3 file


and the mp2 file without the .2 in it


ie you will have two file names the same one with .2 on the end keep this one


this is so we dont get confused later

open tmpegnc


close the wizard if it opens


press the video source browse button


find the file we made with nosound on the end ie viewfromthetopnosound


now if you had gone to the kvcd page and downloaded all the templates this will help


if not go do that now


done it right lets go


now im afraid im not in front of your pc doing this for you so i hope i explain well


press load


you will see a load of files in front of you some starting with kvcd


right this is trial and error stuff now pick the first one begining with kvcd highlight it press open


now press start what will happen is the preview box in front of you will start encoding


now depending on the make up of the original avi file will effect the outcome of the finished film


so if you look at the box and all you see is a tiny box with film thats the size it will come out


if it looks weird press stop and reload a different template the best result is one that looks like widescreen


i hope that made sense

just press start and overwrite the file


any way let it do its thing depending on your pc specs depends how long this takes

so lets assume its done


press file mpeg tools the first box should be simple multiplex press the video input browse button


and find the new file we just made it will have a m1v extension


press the audio input browse button find the mp2 file with the .2 in the title the output


box will be automatically set to mpeg


press run


let it do its thing

close tmpgenc

open nero


select vcd


untick the create standard compliant cd


press new


find the new file we have made it will be in the original avi folder but will have a mpeg extension


now you have to drag this into the left box dont right click and copy to compliation


a box will appear and a blue line will go across if a warning comes up with not being a compliant vcd ignore carry on


press burn and burn at the speed you want


once finished press the ok box


press done the disk will come out and now to test


put it in your dvd player and hay presto the film kicks in

depending if your dvd player can play vcds that is

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