Introduction Disclaimer Software Step 1: Ripping Step 2: DVD2AVI Step 3: Audio encoding Step 4: Bitrate calc. Step 5: Frameserving Step 6: Video encoding Step 7: Multiplexing Step 8: Mastering Step 9: Burning FAQ Glossary Links Copyright © 2001-2003 by Jacob Laursen |
Step 8 - MasteringIntroductionBefore we are ready to burn the SVCD's we need to master them. This means creating the actual disc layout in SVCD format with all the needed control files. Nero 5.5 has support for SVCD, but unfortunately it doesn't fully comply to the SVCD standard. It doesn't write scan offsets, which are needed for players to do fast rewind and forward. Some players can't even play SVCD's without scan offsets at all. Therefore we use VCDImager to generate SVCD compliant disc images, and let another program burn these images (which are in bin/que format). VCDImager is from the Unix world, without any GUI. TSCV is an attempt to make a Windows GUI for VCDImager. Unfortunately a very poor attempt (lots of bugs), but as long as we stick to the basics, we shouldn't run into any serious problems. How to
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