Galactica’s How To’s for Macintosh Video
SVCD TO DVD (using Ifogen and Tocgen)
Applications needed:
Open VCDTOOSX, use the 1st option which will extract the mpeg file from a .bin. Note, this can also be done from a .toast if you rename the .toast to .bin.
Do this for all of the SVCD Cd’s you have or for all of the .bin/.toast’s you have.
Step 2. Change AUDIO to 48Khz (optional)
APEX 5131 (and others) do not require the .mp2 to be converted from 44.1Khz to 48Khz, but some players might. If you want to, open your original .mpeg (the one you demuxed) where you can add a file to ffmpegx (at the top browse option) go to VIDEO and unclick ENCODE VIDEO. Change the CODEX to PASSTHROUGH (ffmpeg) and then go to AUDIO. Change the specs to match that of DVD (48Khz and 224kbs) Then click ENCODE. This will make a .mp2 that is at standard DVD frequency. This will put a .mp2 file in the directory of your mpeg files. (Find the .mp2 and rename it such that you can tell it’s the 48khz one!!!!)
Open FFMPEGX, click on TOOLS and then you will see an area where you can browse for a video and an audio file and have options such as MUX AS (SVCD, DVD…). There is also DEMUX. Click DEMUX, and then browse for just a single video file. Choose the 1st of your mpeg files to demux. Click GO, not ENCODE.
Notice how your terminal will pop up and you will see a percentage done. This is rather quick, usually taking about 1 second per %. Now, go to where your mpeg files are stored, you will see there is a .m2v (video) and a .mp2 (audio). Trash the audio file this step makes (keeping the 48khz file – unless you skipped Step 2)
Go back to FFMPEGX, click on TOOLS and unclick DEMUX and click MUX AS making sure its DVD. Select the .m2v file with the video browse, and then select your .mp2 file with the audio browse. (if you did step 2, pick the 48Khz one) (if you did not do step 2, pick the 44Khz one). Click GO, not ENCODE. You will then get information on your movie and audio file. No percent done, but you the terminal will tell you when the process is complete. You now have a final .mpeg file that has the name .m2v.mpg Rename this to film1.mpg. Toss all of the temporary files .m2v and .mp2 also the source .mpeg file.
Repeat as needed for all .mpeg files renaming to film2.mpg, film3.mpg and so on.
Place this in the root of your HD. Such that its location is /VIDEO_TS
Step 7. IFOGEN (creation of the .vob files)
NOTE: always hit the space bar once after dragging any file into the terminal for this method!
Open your terminal app. Drag the ifogen file into the terminal, push space once. [Depending on its location you will get something like /users/username/desktop/ifogen or some derivate of that.] Next, type /VIDEO_TS with a space after S. Next, drag your film1.mpg into the terminal. Space. film2.mpg. Space and so on until you have them all in there. Typically 5 is max!
It will look something like this (mine are all located at root of HD)
/ifogen /VIDEO_TS /film1.mpg /film2.mpg /film3.mpg /film4.mpg /film5.mpg
hit return. Notice it will say “processing VIDEO_TS”
When this is complete, go to your HOME folder and locate the .vob and ifo/bup files. They may not be here (in which case they are in the VIDEO_TS folder you have at the root of your HD)
If you cant find them, do a search for (null) using Sherlock
Rename the files such that you replace (null) with VTS (null)_01.ifo ŕ VTS_01.ifo and so on.
If they were not in the VIDEO_TS folder, put them there now.
Step 8. TOCGEN (creation of dvd standard
VIDEO_TS.ifo/.bup)
Open the terminal, drag in the tocgen file. SPACE. type /VIDEO_TS return.
Looks like this (my tocgen is root in my HD. If somewhere else it will reflect its location in the terminal):
/tocgen /VIDEO_TS
This is instantaneous and you now have a complete VIDEO_TS folder for burning.
Open TOAST TITANIUM, choose DVD from the OTHER menu.
Click NEW DVD, name it using DVD STANDARD NAMING (all capitals and _ for space) Example: MY_DVD
Add a new folder, rename it to AUDIO_TS
Drag your VIDEO_TS folder that’s in the root of your HD to toast.
Click BURN
That’s it.