[VCDImager] Help with transcode/vcdimager and all that stuff !

[Yannick Calmes]

 Hello everyone...


        I'd like to create a basic SVCD from a DVD...


        It's not an easy task, but after spending some hours reading docs
        and some nights for transcoding purposes, it's close from being OK...


        I give the full description of my problem, because I cannot find someone
        who could tell me if the problem comes from transcode, vcdimager or 
mplayer     
or my home DVD player (Tokai 713)

        Here are the details:


        I've ripped first chapter of a DVD, then I get 01.vob for example...

        Then,

     transcode -i "01.vob" \
         -x vob -a 0 -J skip="0-2" \
         -o 01 \
         -B 5 \
         -y mpeg -F s,3 -b 128 -V

        and I can see that two file are now available:

        01.mpa and 01.m2v...

        Now:

        tcmplex  -i 01.m2v -p 01.mpa -m s -o 01.mpg

        and now, two file are multiplexed... Cool...


        Let's start vcdimager now:

        vcdxgen --type=svcd --iso-volume-label="TEST" \
                01.mpg

        vcdxbuild videocd.xml



        And videocd.bin and videocd.cue are now here ! Great !



        I start mplayer 

        mplayer videocd.bin, and it plays perfectly... Wonderful !!!


        Now, I want to burn a SVCD CD...

        cdrdao write videocd.cue...

        After some times it's finished...

        I try mplayer again:

        mplayer /dev/cdrom and: Its horrible ! Picture devastated, sound 
chopped !
        
        You can't recognize what was the original !!!


        If I try to put the CD into my home DVD player, it's the same !!!!!


        Questions now:

        - How can you explain that videocd.bin was perfectly playable, but the 
same
        after cdrdao looks like sh*** ???

        - Is there anywhere on the web some info to help people creating SVCD 
from
        DVD to SVCD using transcode and vcdimager ?

        - Thank you ;)