Best program to convert DivX/MPEG4 to VCD

[[GDI]Raptor]

Can anybody recomand me a good program I can use to convert MPEG4 or DivX videos to VideoCD format?

I want to be able to watch some DivX movies on the DVD player I have for the television (no, my computer is to far away....) and my DVD player only suports VideoCD and DVD's....

[M|x]

hmm. i want that too.. does this prosess take a lot of time?

[Topha]

im not quite sure, try tmpgenc, ( http://www.tmpgenc.net/ ) but to be certain you should ask in the desktop video forum

[WyWyWyWy]

I second tmppenc.
And yes it takes quite a lot of time. (relatively)

[Gurm]

You want TMPGEnc, however... it's a bit of work figuring it out.

- Gurm

[Taz]

I'd agree with TMPGEnc but you may need Virtual Dub as well to seperate the audio track if your getting syncing problems.

[TnT]

Like always, head on over to www.doom9.org for some guides. vcdhelp.com also has a short guide. I just converted a 90 minute huffyuv file to SVCD using the slowest (highest quality settings supposedly) on an Athlon XP 1800 and it took 12 hours.

[Gurm]

Yeah, it IS time-consuming. DVD2SVCD, which uses either TMPGEnc or CinemaCraft Encoder, takes roughly 12 hours on my AthlonXP 1800+ to convert your average DVD.

- Gurm

[lindberg]

Incredible slow action. Why can't they make an efficient converter like the audiocatalyst. I mean before audio catalyst it took 15min to pack a 5min music track to mp3 format. With audiocatalyst i took about 20-30 secs on a fast 'puter.
Was considering this type of divx->svcd conversion myself, but 12hours? Yuck

[Gurm]

Because this is orders of magnitude more complex than MP3's?

And... because Audio Catalyst creates horrifically bad MP3's?

I mean, LAME still takes a couple minutes to compress the average MP3 on my XP1800+, whereas Audio Catalyst will do it in 15-20 seconds. BIG difference in quality though.

- Gurm