SOMEONE PLEASE HELP

[Murrdawg045]

Hey guys I've been converting svcd for a little while with TMPG. I can get pretty good quality, but I think its possible to do better. I was just wondering if some of you could post the settings you use with TMPGEnc. Thanks a lot!

[Triffid]

I tend to use the defaults these days (except I use 352 x 288 resolution..cause it realy helps reduce the blockiness at the standard bitrate, and I can live with the slight negative effect on res and motion)

But, better results always come with higher bit rate...that's it.

Also, I think that the big work is in getting a good source to work with. That is, capturing correctly and filtering the .avi to reduce the work that the encoder has to do (ie get rid of noise and smooth out the colours, and make sure your field order is always right..not that that matters to me coz I thow one away...and get the levels right, etc.) For this I use virtualdub: levels filter, sometimes the white balance filter, flaxens VHS filter and the vitualdub TV filter. If I do full frame stuff I split field before filtering and put them back afterwards (using the deinterlace filter). I use the deinterlace filter in TMPEenc (odd-even) to check that the field order is correct, and do it for every separate sequence from my source tape (home videos that is), then I DON'T USE IT during the encode.

Actually there are a couple of other changes I do in the TMPGEnc settings:

- Turn OFF the no motion search by half PEL setting
- Set 10 bit DC coefficient
- set VBV to 224

No idea if these are really doing what I think they do, but I'm satisfied with the results (of course, as I am using PAL, I also correct the obvious fault in the template, and set it to PAL instead on NTSC!)

Hope this is of some help. Good luck!

[Murrdawg045]

Hey thanks a lot for the info, I'm going to give it a try.