Need some suggestions for an SVCD in TMPGENc

[macjohn]

Using TMPGENc 2.5 I am trying to convert AVI's captured from video, through ATI all in wonder Radeon, with Huffy lossless codec. I've tried CBR of 2000 and VBR with an average of 2000 (45 minute Star Trek video's I want to fit on one CD) and a min of 500 and max of 2520 (or whatever the max is allowed in that program).

The same thing happens with each encode... In the openening scene, it fades and zooms into Captn Picard with shaded black on both sides of him, each time there's all kinds of pixelation in the shades of black. I can get rid of it if I go to a higher bitrate but then I can't fit on a CD. It looks fine (although the colors seem a little washed out) going to VCD but I've seen the StoneCutter enterprise SVCD's and I'm shooting for that level of perfection here... anyone know the proper settings to get a perfect 45 minute encode from a Huffy AVI? Which program should I use? Is TMPGENc good enough or do I need to use something else?

Any and all suggestions appreciated.

macjohn

[doug1937@hotmail.com]

Why are you using Huffy for SVCD? You should be using MPEG-2, not Huffy. I was able to put 52 minutes of SVCD video on one disc easily at 1500 bitrate...it didn't look too bad.

[macjohn]

Just trying to follow the VCDhelp capture and convert guide as close as possible. It states the Huffy codec for capture, then converted to SVCD would get me closest to lossless... that's what I'm after.

[WildStyle]

macjohn,

For 45 minutes of SVCD on one 80min cd i'd use 2200kbps 2 pass VBR. If after encoding you find that it's too big, 796mb or more, than downsample the audio to 192kbps. Up the minimum a little to 650 to 750 and try making some test encodes at this rate using the scene you had problems with.

I've seen some Smallville SVCD's that were DVD quality. Truly amazing.
They didn't state the source. But, a wildfeed off of satellite is very good quality. Digital satellite is also very good but you get the station "icons" superimposed with that source. Who know's, maybe there are HDTV cappers out there somewhere.


WS