mpg2

[andya]

i have a vhs tape i transvered to avi to get best quality.if i make it into a mpg2 file will the quality be better than if i just did it as an mpg2 file in the first place.it just i want to get rid of the blocking effect and maybe use a filter of some sort.the film is in black and white

[Vejita-sama]

The general rule of thumb is to capture in the highest resolution and bitrate you system can support to uncompressed avi video (or with a 'lostless codec' like huffyuv'). Edit as necessary. Then encoded to a a lower resolution/bitrate as/if needed.

Generally speaking capturing directly to MPEG2 does not give as good quaility as capturing uncompressed then encoding with a good software encoder.

However, IMHO most VHS source tapes are of such poor quaility that to save time I just capture to MPEG2 at 352x480 and author. The quaility is lost is not worth the extra hassle _IMHO_, YMMV.