Will Pioneer DV-444 play 352x576 MPEG-2 SVCD's?

[Khizhiy]

Or will it be SXVCD? I want to keep the VHS resolution while making movies longer on one CD-R.

[uteotw]

My DV-545 does. I don't see why the 444 wouldn't.
This is the format I capture everything instead 480x576.
Overall , less macroblocks and camera moves are smotther.

Otherwise , Pionners player don't like higher bitrate than 2600kb/s.

Otherwise , VHS quality is 240 lines , not 576.
You could make a 352x288 SVCD. I did it a couple times to archive a VHS tape. The final result is 90 minutes on 1 CD with decent picture quality.

[Khizhiy]

As I understand it, VHS' horizontal resolution is 240 lines, and it has two 288-line fields (PAL). 352 covers the 240 lines of horizontal resolution, while you need 576 lines to sore both fields of a frame. Tell me where I am wrong.

[uteotw]

I'm pretty sure that only 240 lines are recorded on the tape.

I don't know if when played back the VCR then send a 2 x 288-line fields signal to the TV. But if it does it means that to capture the "exact" tape information you'd need to capture 576 lines.

Anyway this is what I do when I capture a VHS tape :
- capture at 352x576
- smart smoother filter in VirtualDub
- smart deinterlace
- resize to 352x288 (precise bicubic)
- encode to XVCD or SVCD depending on the length

The final result is a lot better than if captured directly at 352x288 , but I'm not sure that encoding at 352x576 would add much more quality to the end result. In theory it should. But if you want to store more on one CD , you'll have to reduce resolution and/or bitrate which will reduce the final quality. Unless you use a better codec like DivX but then it won't play in a DVD Player.

Overall , 90 minutes at 352x288 SVCD VBR 3 Pass on a 80" CD-R is what gave me the most acceptable result when I want to archive VHS tapes.

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