VCD HowTo

This Document is just a reminder for me to burn some VCD under Linux.
I user RedHat 7.1 to do that.

It's quite simple when I now what to use.

I need some programs to do VCD and... some MPEG Movies...

MPEG Movies

Movies must be MPEG 1 Layer 2 352x288 to do VCD 2.0 (PAL)

For SVCD, must be MPEG 2 720x568 (PAL)

Sound must be MPEG 1 Layer 2 224kbps, 44,1KHz, Stereo

I find some interresting stuff with MJPEG Tools. A good HowTo can be found HERE.

Sound can be separate of video by a lav2wav stream.avi | mp2enc -V -o sound.mpg

VCD scaling can be done by a lav2yuv stream.avi | yuvscaler -O VCD -n p | mpeg2enc -f 1 -r 16 -o video.mpg

SVCD scaling can be done by a lav2yuv stream.avi | yuvscaler -O SVCD -n p | mpeg2enc -f 4 -I 3 -b 2500 -V 400 -o video.m2v

Multiplexing done by : mplex -f 1 sound.mpg video.mpg -o vcd_out.mpg

Here is my batch to do that work :

NAME=`echo $1 | awk -F '.' '{print $1}'`
 
echo "*******************************************************************"
echo "   Converting AVI $NAME.avi to MPEG $NAME.mpg     "
echo "*******************************************************************"

# If start from DV AVI
dv2jpgfull $NAME.avi $NAME.mjpeg.avi
# In All cases
lav2wav $NAME.mjpeg.avi | mp2enc -V -o $NAME.sound.mpg
lav2yuv $NAME.mjpeg.avi | mpeg2enc -b 2500 -V 300 -M 2 -o $NAME.video.mpg
mplex -f 4 -r 2750 -b 300  $NAME.sound.mpg $NAME.video.mpg -o $NAME.mpg
rm -f $NAME.sound.mpg $NAME.video.mpg

Correct MPEG Errors : vcdgear

Some MPEGs are sometimes broken.
VCDGear seems to be a good tool for correcting MPEGs.

Download Location at : http://www.vcdgear.com/files/vcdgear16d_i386_redhat62.tar.gz
Just untargzip it and run "vcdgear16 -mpg2mpg -fix mpegfilename"
It's very fast on my UDMA disk.

Build ISO Image : vcdimager

VCDImager is a very good tool to build the VCD image file

Download Location at : http://vcdimager.hvrlab.org/pub/vcdimager/vcdimager-0.6/vcdimager-0.6.2.tar.gz
ungziptar it and compil it (./configure; make).
Move in your mpeg directory and run it : "vcdimager -p -l "11charlabelofyourvcd" mpgfilenames"
It builds the ISO image and a cuefile for cdrdao.
Verifications are a bit long, but it's quite fast

Record ISO Image : cdrdao

Download Location at : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cdrdao/cdrdao-1.1.5.bin.x86.linux.tar.gz
untargzip it and run "cdrdao write videocd.cue"
It burns the CD really cool !

Play it !

I use my DVD on my tv to read this (Tokai 723)