DVD -> VCD or SVCD

[papaschtroumpf]

I want to transfer so DVDs to VCD or SVCD so that I can watch them on my laptop (it doesn't have a DVD drive and its hardrive it small).
I use DVDShrink for DVD->DVD but I don't knwo of a simple all-in-one, free solution to backup DVDs to (s)VCDs

 

[Rip the Jacker]

http://www.videohelp.com/

 

[Slick5150]

For VCD: http://dvd2vcd.com/
For SVCD: http://www.macsat.com/downloads.php

Both are just 1 click programs that will convert DVD->(S)VCD, but take a lot longer than DVDshrink because of the video conversion that has to be done.

 

[bamacre]

Divx or Xvid encoded avi's would be smaller and be of better image quality. If the hard drive is too small, you can just place the avi files on a cd and play from there. Fair Use is a very very easy to use program to convert DVD's to .avi's.

 

[papaschtroumpf]

Divx/avi on a CD would be fine too.
The latest Fair Use Wizard I could find is 0.30 beta and says it doesn't handle sound, so it's pretty useless.
Is there a newer version?

 

[Slick5150]

Don't mean to state the obvious but:
http://www.fairusewizard.com

v 1.0

 

[bamacre]

Fair Use was at one time completely free, but whatever it costs now, it's worth it.

 

[Slick5150]

The lite version still is free. It limits the file size to 700mb, but that's plenty big 99% of the time.

 

[yukichigai]

There are several one-click solutions, but there's a much more elegant solution that takes only a little more time and gets you much better quality. I'm reffering to KVCDs. You can make a KVCD almost entirely with TMPGEnc, save for the step where you decrypt the VOBs. (And something with DVD2AVI, but that comes with TMPGEnc) KVCDs are supported by (as far as I know) every DVD player made starting 3 or 4 years ago, and quite a few made before that. Your computer will have absolutely no problem playing them.

It's not that hard to do, seriously. I can walk you through it if you're interested.

Sorry about bumping the thread; I just had to respond.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

I agree with yuchigai.
KVCDs look good, and will play in any DVD player... and since they're still using MPEG1, you can play them on a Pentium 90 without as much of a hiccup.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
I agree with yuchigai.
KVCDs look good, and will play in any DVD player... and since they're still using MPEG1, you can play them on a Pentium 90 without as much of a hiccup.

Thanks for the support.

I'm also experimenting with MVCDs. There's not much support for them since the only instructions are written in German, but there's TMPGEnc templates on the official site. The GOP structure and Quantization Matricies are markedly different from that of KVCDs. I'm running a few comparison encodes to see how it works out.