However I would recommend using ffmpeg to scale and reconvert the video and audio.Įxample would be ffmpeg -i svcd.mpg -s 720x576 -vcodec mpeg2video -b 9500 -maxrate 9500 -bufsize 230 -f mpeg1video -aspect 16:9 -hq dvd.m2v If you have a really cheap and nasty DVD player which doesn't care about standards, this type of invalid disk will (probably) play perfectly well. This is an invalid horizontal resolution for DVDs.The audio is also 44.1kHz sample rate which is also invalid for DVDs SVCDs resolution are most commonly 480x480 or 480x576. There are a few problems with this approach. This isn't a valid DVD structure, so the vast majority of DVD players won't recognise it. But all you're going to end up with is a DVD containing a muxed mpeg2 file. on the other hand, if you simply burn the 480x480 44.1KHz mpeg2 in UDF format via Toast's 'data' tab, Toast will not re-encode it. The 'geekier' method described in the first reply above is a far better way of maintaining quality (although possibly at the expense of compatibility, some DVD players won't play SVCD resolution files from a DVD).ģb. This is going to take hours and will significantly reduce the visual quality. the only way you're going to end up with a DVD this way is if you use Toast 6's 'video' tab and let it re-encode the SVCD's 480x480 video and 44.1KHz audio into 720x480 video and 48KHz audio. at least on my Mac (10.3.8), after inserting a SVCD (or a VCD) you cannot access it at /dev/cdromģa.

vcdxrip from the latest version of ffmpegX (0.0.9s) does not recognise the -c flag.Ģ. profile file?) there are so many other things wrong:ġ. As a result I defy anyone to turn a SVCD into a DVD with these highly incomplete instructions :-)Īside from numerous omissions (where did the vcd.bin file come from? where has he copied vcdxrip to? did he include the path to vcdxrip in his. I couldn't understand why this hint would possibly work in the way described, so I gave it a try. Burn the joined MPEG using Toast or another recording package.Examples: $ mpgtx -j -o joined.mpg part1.mpg part2.mpg Join the MPEGs into one large MPEG using mpgtx.Examples: $ vcdxrip -b vcd.bin$ vcdxrip -c /dev/cdrom Be careful to rename this after it's complete, as running another instance of vcdxrip will overwrite this file. It will create a file called avstream01.mpg. Use vcdxrip to rip the MPEG layer out of the SVCD.For this particular task, you'll only need two tools: vcdxrip and mpgtx. The easiest way is to download ffmpegx and simply copy them from within the application - control-click on the ffpmegx application, navigate to Contents -> Resources, and copy them to a sane location (such as /usr/local/bin or /opt/local/bin). Tools: The tools used here can either be downloaded and compiled individually, or borrowed from ffmpegx.

This is a very easy process, but it took me a little investigative work to find the best way to do it. With DVD burners now a standard feature in many Macs, people are looking for ways to convert their old SVCDs to DVDs.

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