Discussion Groups, FAQ's

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• www.dvdboard.de/FAQ/ - "Das inoffizielle Yamakawa FAQ zusammengetragen aus den Foren des Parsimony.Net & DVD Board". Please read this FAQ first before you use the next link !
  
• www.dvdboard.de - dvdboard.de - DVD und Heimkino Foren (GER) The best place to search for informations about Yamakawa and other DVD players and clones, video encoding and editing (authoring), tips, tools plus more
• The Yamakawa FAQ - FAQ collected from german forum (ENU)
• http://www.custompost.com/Boards/index.asp?bid=6666 - Raite AV Phile 715 discussion board
• http://forums.delphi.com/tmpgenc/start/ - TMPGEnc discussion forum
• http://f18.parsimony.net/forum31123 - Jensemann's Forum
  

 

General DVD Links (Codefree, Firmware..)

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• http://www2.datatestlab.com/regionhacks/ - Overview of codefree region patches on the web for dvd-rom players
• http://dvdsoft.free.fr or http://go.to/dvdsoft - big network, mostly PC-DVD related. Software DVD players, DVD to SVCD Guides (ripping and encoding), downloads, links
• http://www.flexion.org - Video CD cookbook, DVD region coding, ripping, cov. guides, macrovision + more
  

 

MPEG Encoding

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http://www.tecoltd.com/enctest/enctest.htm - Teco Ltd has tested several encoders:

• AMBER DV2MPEG converter http://www.canopuscorp.com
• APOLLO DVD-er http://www.dv-studio.com
• BBMpeg 1.2 http://members.home.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html - another freeware encoder, 3rd best choice in my opinion (after CinemaCraft + TMPGEnc (=Tsunami Encoder))
• Cinemacraft Encoder Lite and SP 2.0 http://www.cinemacraft.com - best results, by far to expensive. Demo available
• DV 500 http://www.pinnaclesys.com
• Digital VideoCreator II http://www.dazzle.com
• DVMpeg 5.0 http://www.darvision.com
• ExpertDVD http://www.pixeltools.com
• LSX Encoder 3.0 http://www.ligos.com
• MPEGator 2 http://www.darvision.com
• MEGAPeg http://www.digigami.com
• MPEG Conversion Studio 1.1 http://w3-mcgav.kddlabs.co.jp
• MPEG Power Professional V2.0h http://www.heuris.com
• Realmagic DVR http://www.sigmadesigns.com
• Tsunami Encoder Beta Version http://www.jamsoft.com/tmpgenc/ , http://www.tmpgenc.com/ - TMPGEnc (short for Tsunami MPeG Encoder) is a freeware MPEG-1/2 video and audio encoder for Win32, written by Hiroyuki Hori. This web page offers English translations and other information. A must-have for SVCD freaks!
• Vitec MPEG2 tools http://www.vitecmm.com
  

 

SVCD Authoring + Burning

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• http://www.licensing.philips.com/cdsystems/cdsupervcd.html - Phillips- SVCD Designer / SVCD Toolset / SVCD Verifier (too expensive + complicated for private use)
• http://www.enreach.com/Products/products/iauthor/iauthsvcd.htm - EnReach I-Author for SuperVCD (about $1000). Note: You will need Adaptec EZ CD Creator since the SW will create images for this burning program
• http://www.videocd2.com - Compact Data Inc. Super VCDMaker for Macintosh
  
• http://www.ahead.de - Ahead Nero 5.x supports SVCD creation now. Recommended because it's cheap in comparison to other solutions and the company tries to improve the product. Demo available
  
• http://www.cequadrat.com - CeQuadrat VideoPack 5.0 supports SVCD

• http://www.geocities.com/bug2kbug/svcdguide.htm - "SuperVCD Unveiled: Millennium Bug's SVCD Creation Guide". One of the best guides I know so far; very detailed, much solutions. Highly recommended. To download the guide go here (freedrive account req.)
• http://www.iki.fi/znark/video/svcd/overview/ - Super Video CD Overview + Guide for Philips SVCD Designer users (good luck ;-)..)
• http://go.to/doom9 - Good additional help can be found here: How to deal with VOB-Files (DVD Source), Multiple audio tracks in a SVCD and subtitles, Enreach I-Author Guide, SVCD Guide using FlaskMpeg, DVD2MPG Guide for VCD/SVCD, DVD2AVI Guide for VCD/SVCD
• http://www.cdrom-guide.com/cgi/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=VideoCD&number=11 - (S)VCD Discussion Group at cdrom-guide.com
  

• http://www.iki.fi/znark/video/ - Super Video CD overview + FAQ
• http://www.cts-computer.com/svcd.htm - "SVCD - preiswerte Alternative?" Info about a SVCD structure and a short technical overview
• http://www.ratos.de - "SVCD – Super Video CD DIE deutschsprachige Infoseite", contains good information about encoders for SVCD, authoring systems
  
• http://people.freenet.de/codecpage - CODEC Page, some additional infos for bbmpeg + TMPGEnc
• http://www.china-shinco.com/product/svcd/svcd_faq.htm - SuperVCD Questions from Shinco
  

 

Tools Download

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• http://www.herosoft.com/cn/download/soft/down/dvd.asp - free DVD Player for Windows who plays SVCD from Herosoft
  
• http://www.tecoltd.com/bitratev.htm - TECO's Bitrate Viewer
• http://www.geocities.com/virtualdub/index.html - freeware video capture and processing utility VirtualDub from Avery Lee, very useful, reads avs scripts, frame server support. Highly recommended
• http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Pressbox/8699/ - Some filters for VirtualDub from Donald Graft, links to other filters
• http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/index.html - Ben Rudiak-Gould's Home Page, Author of AviSynth (A video-editing language) and HuffYUV (a fast and lossless video codec). Freeware with source code available
• http://www.downrecs.com/software.html - TRMOOV, QuickTime to AVI (and vice versa) converter
  

 

DVB (Digital Video Broadcast)

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• http://pavconvert.tsx.org - .pav / .pva to .avi - Conversion & DVB-Remote Control
• http://www.dvbforum.de - WinTV DVB Forum
• http://www.force5.de - Home of PVAstrumento, this cool tool will re-synchronize your pva-streams
• http://www.linuxtv.org/dvb - Driver, links, projects for DVB under Linux
• http://www.dvb2k.de - focused on d-box stuff and modified dbox firmware, but e.g. harddisk-recording is worth to take a look
• http://www.digitv.de - Info's about digital television
• http://windvblive.de - WinDVBlive is an alternative Operation System for the DVB PCI-Cards of Technotrend, Hauppauge, Siemens, Galaxis..

• http://www.bleemer2.cjb.net - some few info's about capture from TV/VCR/DVD/Camcorder, SVCD and DVD