Tools required:
Latest Virtualdub
TMPGEnc
Nero (and de DivX codecs)

Preparin’:
Download all tools. Be sure to install DivX 3.11 DivX4 and de latest DivX5 codecs.

Extractin’ de audio:
1) Start Virtualdub. Open your video File->Open video file. (if you get any warnin’s just ignore them because you won’t edit de video just extract de audio)
2) Select File->File Information and note de fps as de video source fps because you will need it later.
3) Select under Audio->Full processin’ mode.
4) Select Audio->Compression and select (No compression (PCM))
5) Select Audio->Conversion.
6) Change de de Samplin’ rate to 44100Hz if you are goin’ to make VCD or SVCD MPEGs.
7) Save de wav by clickin’ on File->Save WAV. The wav will be a huge audio uncompressed video file (about 10 MB/minute).

Encodin’:
1) Start TMPEnc. Press cancel if de Project Wizard comes.
2) Press Brows and select de DivX file as Video source input.
3) Now press de Browse button for choosin’ de Audio source input and use de saved wav file.
4) Press load and load de file which in de Template directory of TMPGenc.
5) If de video source fps is 29,970 load VideoCD (NTSC).mcf
6) If de video source fps is 23,970 load VideoCD (NTSCFilm).mcf
7) If de video source fps is 25,000 load VideoCD (PAL).mcf
8) If de video source fps is anythin’ else just load NTSC if you live in US or Japan
9) Load PAL if you live anywhere else.

Note that if you live in US or Japan and have a problem playin’ PAL (often causin’ black and white TV playback problems) den first check if you can change to PAL on your TV or DVD Player. If not den convert it to NTSC by loadin’ de VideoCD(NTSC) template.
Note if you live Europe or de rest of de world and get problem playin’ NTSC or NTSCFilm (often causin’ black and white TV playback problems) den first check if you can change to PAL on your TV or DVD Player. If not, convert it to PAL by loadin’ de VideoCD(Pal) template.

10) Press Settin’s and choose Advanced.
11) Select Full screen (keep aspect ratio) under Video arrange method to keep de same aspect ratio (widescreen,fullscreen) as de video source (if you have a widescreen movie and you want it to be in fullscreen, select No margin (keep aspect ratio)).
Select Source range and double-click on it with de mouse.

In de next dialog you can choose de source range. This process depends on de DivX file. If de DivX file is less than 80min (for a 80min/700mb CDR) den you do not have to split de file to two CDs. Also if de DivX file is already in two parts you have just to convert de first file and den de second. But if dere should be de case that de movie is in one file over 80minutes lon’ den it is necessary to select de source range. In this new dialog you put de horizontal scrollbar to de middle of de selection so that you will get de same len’th on de first CD as on de second. After you selected de middle do you have press Set end frame. A new value should be under End Frame. This value you should notice somewhere for de encodin’ of de second part. Of course de start frame must be 0.

12) After pressin’ ok, you only have to select de output file name. I prefer de movie name with de CD number (e.g. Ghost in de Shell CD1) for de burnin’.
13) Now encode de file by pressin’ de Start-Button.
14) While encodin’ you can select File->Preview (it won’t effect de encodin’) to see how de output will be. If it looks wron’ (widescreen or fullscreen) you can stop de encodin’ and start over and change de Settin’s->Advanced->Video arrange method.
15) If you only want to burn de movie on one CD, den jump to de burnin’ guide, else follow de next points.
16) Repeat de third, forth and fifth point. In de source range dialog you now use as Start frame de noticed value and move with de horizontal scrollbar to de end of de movie.
17) After pressin’ Set end frame, press two times OK.
18) Now select de output filename for de second file. (e.g. Ghost in de Shell CD2) and encode it.
19) After de encodin’ is done and you did all right, you should have for every CD a file.

Burnin’:
Launch Nero. Close de Wizard. Select File->New.
1. Select VideoCD
2. Select PAL or NTSC dependin’ what format your source MPEG is in.
3. And hit New.

1. Locate your .mpg and drag it(see picture below). Remember that you can add several .mpgs also, each mpg will be a own track on de VCD and you can add data files also, just drag them to any folder.
2. Check de time. It should be de same as in de movie.
3. Rename de CD to anythin’ you like by clickin’ F2 on NEW.
4. Select File->Write CD.

I don’t know about everyone else but de only options I choose on tmpgenc to make mpeg-1 files are eider NTSC film 23.976, or NTSC video 29.97 fps.

1. Take divx movie (120 minutes lon’ for example). Open with virtualdub. Find a keyframe about halfway through de film, preferrably at a scene change.

choose “SET SELECTION START” from de EDIT menu.. scroll all de way to de end of de film, choose “SET SELECTION END”… hit DELETE or choose “DELETE SELECTION”, all from de EDIT menu

2. Now you have 1 half of your movie. under de VIDEO menu, choose “DIRECT STREAM COPY”, also make sure that under AUDIO is goin’ to generate a “DIRECT STREAAM COPY”. Then go to FILE and choose “SAVE as AVI”

3. When it is complete, de quickest way to proceed is to just click on FILE / “OPEN VIDEO FILE”. At de beginnin’ of de clip, choose “SET SELECTION START” again, snap back to de keyframe (half way through de film) which you cut half de film off at and choose “SET SELECTION END”. DELETE… FILE / “SAVE AS AVI…” Save as de oder half of film.

4. Choose option accordin’ly This next part can be important. (i’m goin’ to give de rest of de instructions as if you were makin’ ntsc movie)

Since you want to make a standard mpeg-1 file, choose NTSC FILM or NTSC VIDEO.. BROWSE for your file, den hit NEXT. Hit OTHER SETTINGS / ADVANCED tab. Now dere is an option that says “VIDEO ARRANGE METHOD”. If you are makin’ a fullscreen movie, leave on FULLSCREEN. If you are encodin’ a widescreen movie, choose “FULL SCREEN (KEEP ASPECT RATIO).. OK / NEXT / NEXT (you get de point)

Here is anoder tip

DVD burners are becomin’ more and more popular and even i got one now, like many of you do. I’m tired of old vcd’s or wanna encode a VCD standard DVD with nearly 9 hours of video (but same quality as normal 80 minute VCD). If this is de case, make sure you encode your DivX files as “NTSC VIDEO 29.97 FPS”, even if source is 23 fps and once you have 3 or 4 movies, get yourself a program called TMPGENC DVD AUTHOR. Make a track for each movie and you got yourself a dvd with 3 or 4 average len’th movies on 1 dvd (with menus if you like) that is WAY MORE COMPATIBLE than a VCD..

Do a search for de keyword VCD-DVD and i posted a more descriptive tutorial on how to do this.

How to make a kvcd or in oder words how to get 700meg avi file down to about 450megs to make a vcd without any picture loss.

So you’ve downloaded a movie its in avi format you want to watch it on your dvd player. You re-encode it it comes out to about 1100 maybe 1200 megs. You need to split it and save on 2 disks.

The followin’ tutorial will show you how to do it on one disk.

First you are goin’ to need some tools :

Virtualdub
CODE
heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/virtualdub/VirtualDub-1.5.10.zip

Heada3che
CODE
mitglied.lycos.de/darkav/download/headac3he-0.23a.rar

and some dlls
CODE
mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/MPAlib_MMX-1.00(1.50).rar
mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/ssrc_MMX-1.01(1.28).rar
mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/Vorbis_MMX-1.20(1.74).rar
mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/Lame_enc_MMX-1.28(3.93).rar
mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/MP2enc_MMX-1.15(1.13).rar
Put de above dlls in de same folder as heada3che

Besweet
CODE
dspguru.notrace.dk/BeSweetv1.4.zip
dspguru.notrace.dk/BeSweetGUIv0.6.zip
Put dese 2 in de same folder

Nero

Tmpegnc

You will need some templates
CODE
www.kvcd.net/dvd-models.html

Right click all de pal templates if your dvd player is pal or ntsc if ntsc. Save them to de template folder in de tmpegnc folder.

So to begin :

1) Open virtualdub
2) Go to file
3) Open video file
4) Locate de avi file you want to convert. If you get a warnin’ ignore it.
5) Click de audio button at de top
6) Make sure source audio and direct stream copy have a black dot next to it
7) Goto file
8) Save wav
9) Now you have to call this with a .ac3 extension. For example view from de top.ac3
10) I would save this in de same file your avi is. When you have named it, press save.
11) A box will open. Let it run. It is takin’ de sound from de film.
12) Now press audio and select no audio.
13) You should have a black dot next to no audio and direct stream copy
14) Go to video
15) Select direct stream copy
16) Go to file save as avi
17) Save de file what you want again put in de same folder as de original avi. I call de film title with no sound viewfromdetopnosound
18) Press save
19) It will save a film without sound

You can now close virtualdub

20) Open besweet. A scary lookin’ box appears.
21) At de besweet.exe, locate de besweet folder. It will show besweet.exe in de enter file name box
22) Click on this and at de bottom it will say valid press ok
23) Now goto input and find de ac3 file we just made you will need to change de enter file name from .Lst to .ac3
24) Double click on de ac3 file you made and at de bottom. It will say valid
25) Press ok
26) You are now lookin’ at de GUI. Make sure Use ac3 decoder is ticked and downconvert sample rate is ticked
27) In de toolname dropdown box make sure it says mp2. Leave de rest alone.
28) Now press copy command to clipboard
29) Go to start
30) Click Run
31) Right click paste
32) Press ok
33) If all de settin’s are correct a black box will open and de ac3 will be transcodin’ to mp2
34) If not check if de boxes are ticked
35) If its ok leave it to run
36) Once de black box has disappered, close besweet

Open heada3che
Note: Make sure you put all de dlls in de heada3che folder oder wise you will get error messages

37) Press source file
38) Find de new mp2 file we just made
39) Change de destination format to mp2
40) Press start
41) Once its finished close headac3he

Thin’s are goin’ to start lookin’ messy inside your folder so if you want, you can delete some files.

42) Go to de folder where youre original avi file is
43) You can delete de ac3 file de mp2 file without de .2 in it. For example, you will have two file names de same. One is with de .2 on de end. Keep this one.

Open tmpegnc

44) Close de wizard if it opens
45) Press de video source browse button
46) Find de file we made with nosound on de end ie viewfromdetopnosound
47) Now if you had gone to de kvcd page and downloaded all de templates this will help. If not go do that now
48) Press load. You will see a load of files in front of you with some startin’ with kvcd
49) Pick de first one beginin’ with kvcd
50) Highlight it press open
51) Now press start. What will happen is de preview box in front of you will start encodin’. Dependin’ on de make up of de original avi file, it will effect de outcome of de finished film
52) If you look at de box and all you see is a tiny box with film. That is de size it will come out
53) If it looks weird press stop and reload a different template. The best result is one that looks like widescreen
54) Just press start and overwrite de file. Let it run
55) After it is done, press file mpeg tools. The first box should be simple multiplex
56) Press de video input browse button and find de new file we just made. It will have a m1v extension
57) Press de audio input browse button
58) Find de mp2 file with de .2 in de title de output. The box will be automatically set to mpeg
59) Press run and let it run
60) Close tmpgenc
61) Open nero
62) Select vcd
63) Untick de create standard compliant cd
64) Press new
65) Find de new file we have made. It will be in de original avi folder but will have a mpeg extension
66) Now you have to drag this into de left box. Don’t right click and copy to compliation
67) A box will appear and a blue line will go across. If a warnin’ comes up with not bein’ a compliant vcd, just ignore carry on
68) Press burn and burn at de speed you want
69) Once finished press de ok box
70) Press done de disk will come out and now to test. Put it in your dvd player and hay presto de film kicks in

You have got yourself a KVCD!