I have ATI RADON ALL IN WONDER AND WANT TO MAKE SVCD's

[captain-video]

I have an ATI RADON ALL IN WONDER and I want to make SVCD's any help would be great. I currently make video cd's of tv programs and copy my video tapes over so they play on my dvd . But the quality of the video cds are blocky, and I think that maybe SVCD might improve that. I don't know what settings to use before I capture.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

[Macros746]

I use a lossless capture method using huffy and VirtualDub (takes up a lot of HD space) then I encode the resulting AVI file to MPEG2 using TMPGenc. That is how to get the cleanest result. Otherwise I would advise capturing to the highest quality MPEG2 and then re-encoding in TMPGenc. If you capture directly to SVCD standard it doesn't look very good.

[leebo]

No need to capture AVI and convert to Mpeg2 since the Radeon can capture directly to Mpeg2.

Go to capture settings and click on "custom".
Make a new capture profile using settings as close to SVCD as you can.

This is how I do it:

1) Capture with a resolution and bitrate HIGHER than SVCD, but in MPEG-1. (More programs can read MPEG-1 as input.)
2) Use TMPGEnc to convert to SVCD.

The theory here is that TMPGEnc spending a couple hours crunching will result in better quality per bit of bandwidth than the hardware compressor can.

[Stinky]

leebo: good suggestion but it's SO FAR from SVCD standard that reliably burning it to watch on your DVD is going to be PAINFULL.

Capture to lossless - and convert the SVCD -- you'll like the results better

[vhelp]

Yeah, (I found a nose pin) I'm with Stinky on this one.

NOTHING will beat a good AVI catpure, followed by a GOOD encode
via TMPGenc!!

NOTHING!!

. . .and no real-time is gonna persuade me otherwise, ...not uping the
mbits to 3000 or 4000 or more - doesn't count. We're talking about
SVCD here, give or take a few Mbits.

BUT, if you don't have the (or what to/the) time to do it via AVI, then thats
then the real-time comes in handy. It's easier to settle when you're
lazy (I mean, have no time), he. he...

Go AVI!!!

---------------------------------------------
Sample Clips . . .revised web site

[spiderman2k1]

get the dazzl 2.less head ache and you MPEG2VCR I have a radeon card got sick of all the work i had to do to make a SVCD.mpeg2vcr i can edit out commercial of a hour show in 5 minutes tmpg take about 20 to 45 minutes some times it fast and some times its slow do not take my why lol. dazzle 2 has some problem with AMD system so go to http://stop.at/dazzle2 for more info. sorry ALL In wonder fan's I just could not stick with all the head ache's