how to make a kvcd or in other words how to get 700meg avi file down to about 450megs to make a vcd without any picture loss so youve download a movie its in avi format you want to watch it on your dvd player so you reencode it it comes out to about 1100 maybe 1200 megs so you got to split it and save on 2 disks well the following tut will show you how to do it on one disk first you are going to need some tools virtualdub CODE http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/virtualdub/VirtualDub-1.5.10.zip heada3che CODE http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav/download/headac3he-0.23a.rar and some dlls CODE http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/MPAlib_MMX-1.00(1.50).rar http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/ssrc_MMX-1.01(1.28).rar http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/Vorbis_MMX-1.20(1.74).rar http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/Lame_enc_MMX-1.28(3.93).rar http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav2/download/MP2enc_MMX-1.15(1.13).rar put the above dlls in the same folder as heada3che besweet CODE http://dspguru.notrace.dk/BeSweetv1.4.zip http://dspguru.notrace.dk/BeSweetGUIv0.6.zip put these 2 in the same folder you will have to have nero as well but im hoping you have that already if not it on this forum tmpegnc again its on this forum you will need some templates CODE http://www.kvcd.net/dvd-models.html right click all the pal templates if your dvd player is pal or ntsc if ntsc save them to the template folder in the tmpegnc folder so to begin open virtualdub goto file open video file locate the avi file you want to convert if you get a warning ignore it click the audio button at the top make sure source audio and direct stream copy have a black dot next to it goto file save wav now you have to call this with a .ac3 extension for example view from the top.ac3 i would save this in the same file your avi is so youve named it press save box will open let it do its thing this is taking the sound from the film now press audio and select no audio you should have a black dot next to no audio and direct stream copy goto video select direct stream copy goto file save as avi save the file what you want again put in the same folder as the original avi to make life easier i call mine the film title no sound ie viewfromthetopnosound press save this is now saving the film without sound you can now close virtualdub open besweet scary looking box appears dont worry heres what to do at the besweet.exe locate the besweet folder it will show besweet.exe in the enter file name box click on this and at the bottom it will say valid press ok now goto input and find the ac3 file we just made you will need to change the enter file name from .Lst to .ac3 double click on the ac3 file you made and at the bottom it will say valid press ok now looking at the gui make sure Use ac3 decoder is tick downconvert sample rate is ticked in the toolame dropdown box make sure it says mp2 leave the rest alone now press copy command to clipboard goto start run and right click paste press ok if all the settings are correct a black box will open and the ac3 will be transcoding to mp2 if not check the boxes are ticked if ok leave it to do its thing once the black box has disappered close besweet open heada3che hopefully you put all the dlls in the heada3che folder other wise you will get error messages so make sure you do that done it ok lets go press source file find the new mp2 file we just made change the destination format to mp2 press start thats it once its finished close headac3he for your info things are going to start looking messy inside your folder so if you want you can delete some things goto the folder where youre original avi file is you can delete the ac3 file and the mp2 file without the .2 in it ie you will have two file names the same one with .2 on the end keep this one this is so we dont get confused later open tmpegnc close the wizard if it opens press the video source browse button find the file we made with nosound on the end ie viewfromthetopnosound now if you had gone to the kvcd page and downloaded all the templates this will help if not go do that now done it right lets go now im afraid im not in front of your pc doing this for you so i hope i explain well press load you will see a load of files in front of you some starting with kvcd right this is trial and error stuff now pick the first one begining with kvcd highlight it press open now press start what will happen is the preview box in front of you will start encoding now depending on the make up of the original avi file will effect the outcome of the finished film so if you look at the box and all you see is a tiny box with film thats the size it will come out if it looks weird press stop and reload a different template the best result is one that looks like widescreen i hope that made sense just press start and overwrite the file any way let it do its thing depending on your pc specs depends how long this takes so lets assume its done press file mpeg tools the first box should be simple multiplex press the video input browse button and find the new file we just made it will have a m1v extension press the audio input browse button find the mp2 file with the .2 in the title the output box will be automatically set to mpeg press run let it do its thing close tmpgenc open nero select vcd untick the create standard compliant cd press new find the new file we have made it will be in the original avi folder but will have a mpeg extension now you have to drag this into the left box dont right click and copy to compliation a box will appear and a blue line will go across if a warning comes up with not being a compliant vcd ignore carry on press burn and burn at the speed you want once finished press the ok box press done the disk will come out and now to test put it in your dvd player and hay presto the film kicks in depending if your dvd player can play vcds that is that i cant help you with