AVI to SVCD or VCD

[mjh77]

I'm hope to be enlightened here. I have spent weeks trying to encode avi files so they look good on my tv, but I haven't had any luck so far.

My latest question is VCD vs SVCD. When going from a divx compression to (S)VCD is it worth it to go to SVCD or will it look about the same in VCD?

I usually use TMPG 2 pass VBR and it will encode for a couple of days, which isn't an issue for me. But the picture isn't all that great. If there is a plain color on the screen it's all blocky. Other than that it looks pretty good.

I set it to encode "slow"ly for high quality. is there anything else I can do?

I'm trying to convert ShareReactor's avi release of Black Hawk Down unless that is taboo... in that case I"m converting some home movies... that's it... home movies

thanks for your help

[NeWcS]

This is becoming my favorite saying

Crap in, Crap out

Your only going to get as good of an output as your input.

If the DivX is in killer quality you could go w/ SVCD to try and match the quality. The same applys if the quality is so-so but use VCD.

[mjh77]

why are avi's so popular then? From my experience they aren't verry fun to convert to (S)VCD. Why do groups make screeners and release them as avi files? seems like they are appealing to the people that are going to make VCDs and then they go and put it into an avi format... I don't get it.

[Mirror_Image]

What resolution, bit rate and codec is your source AVI?

[mjh77]

it's 576x240
Audio is 127kbps mp3
Video 23fps, 166kbps, 24bit, MPG4V3