Should I rate the video play in 100% or 200%?

[thomasm]

Using 352x288 MJPEG-18 to capture TV, view perfectly in 100% but like garbage in 200%. As show.




I'm going to encode them in Divx, likely going to watch them in 200%.

Can anyone suggest some filters to make it look better?

[thomasm]

Here's a screen capture after encode in Divx 1pass 890kbps.

[tito13kfm]

temporal smoother might help.. but capturing at a higher resolution to begin with will give you the best results.

[jimmalenko]

garbage in = garbage out.

Capture at a higher res if you wish to watch at a higher res. If you have the HD space, capture uncompressed and let divx do all the work later instead of compressing twice.

[thomasm]

Thanks

So when discuss about "video quality", in this forum, e.g. capture TV in 352x288, that's only talking at 100% right?

Then what will be comment on this capture?:

[jimmalenko]

Firstly lets examine why you want to watch the movies at 200%. Windows Media Player can zoom to 50%, 100% or 200%. This is using a simple resize engine and so most 352 x 288 movies at 200% look patchy because the computer has to use an educated guess as to the content of half the pixels. It does a very good job to produce the output it does. If I were you I would forget about watching things at anything other than 100%. The reason I say this is because it is much easier to control things from the capturing side. Capture at the res you wish to watch at. In a perfect world with limitless HD space, capture uncompressed as well. I recommend this because it means that you are only generating losses once because you will only convert once. Convert straight from uncompressed to DivX and stick to 100% viewing for the best possible results.

[thomasm]

Thanks jimmalenko, I'm agree on that but found a better solution

Read thur this website last nite, http://www.lukesvideo.com/, than give rmvb a try, big impress for the result!!!

Using max bitrate of the MJPEG file I checked from GSpot, about 4000+kbps, 100% quality, High-noise-reduction, Sharp-motion and Black-level-correction, the created file size just about half to 1/3 of the Divx files.

rmvb work so good on cartoon/animations!! Just sharp and clear even in 200% or full screen viewing. It may lost much details but just too much better than in Divx.

Btw, it encode fast!! 23mins MJPEG file take about 16mins only!! (Using AMD 3200+)