SVCD VS VCD DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN ACTUAL VIDEO QUALI?

[guevi]

ANY IDEAS WHY TO CHOOSE ONE OR THE DOOR. WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? ANY BETTER QUALITY PICTURE.?

[Fede Pede]

ANY IDEAS WHY TO CHOOSE ONE OR THE DOOR. WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? ANY BETTER QUALITY PICTURE.?

Yes The resolution is 2,7 times higher on the SVCD,so the picture Q will be more Sharp and Clear.....

PS. Try to look into CVD it shud be better then SVCD.....

[guevi]

ANY IDEAS WHY TO CHOOSE ONE OR THE DOOR. WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? ANY BETTER QUALITY PICTURE.?

Yes The resolution is 2,7 times higher on the SVCD,so the picture Q will be more Sharp and Clear.....

PS. Try to look into CVD it shud be better then SVCD.....

will you go from avi to convert to svcd. the software i have capture and convert directly to vcd. so i guess i need to captur to avi first and convert then. because going from vcd to svcd looks bad the quality.

[Fede Pede]

ANY IDEAS WHY TO CHOOSE ONE OR THE DOOR. WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? ANY BETTER QUALITY PICTURE.?

Yes The resolution is 2,7 times higher on the SVCD,so the picture Q will be more Sharp and Clear.....

PS. Try to look into CVD it shud be better then SVCD.....

will you go from avi to convert to svcd. the software i have capture and convert directly to vcd. so i guess i need to captur to avi first and convert then. because going from vcd to svcd looks bad the quality.

Yes i will do that.
what Os do you use 98 wk2 xp...

[guevi]

ANY IDEAS WHY TO CHOOSE ONE OR THE DOOR. WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? ANY BETTER QUALITY PICTURE.?

Yes The resolution is 2,7 times higher on the SVCD,so the picture Q will be more Sharp and Clear.....

PS. Try to look into CVD it shud be better then SVCD.....

will you go from avi to convert to svcd. the software i have capture and convert directly to vcd. so i guess i need to captur to avi first and convert then. because going from vcd to svcd looks bad the quality.

Yes i will do that.
what Os do you use 98 wk2 xp...

I have win 2k

[Fede Pede]

ANY IDEAS WHY TO CHOOSE ONE OR THE DOOR. WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES? ANY BETTER QUALITY PICTURE.?

Yes The resolution is 2,7 times higher on the SVCD,so the picture Q will be more Sharp and Clear.....

PS. Try to look into CVD it shud be better then SVCD.....

will you go from avi to convert to svcd. the software i have capture and convert directly to vcd. so i guess i need to captur to avi first and convert then. because going from vcd to svcd looks bad the quality.

Yes i will do that.
what Os do you use 98 wk2 xp...

I have win 2k

Capture program you can use to get full resolution or (480x576 pal 480x480 ntsc SVCD) Is

http://www.iulab.com/index.shtm?iuvcr/download

or

http://mikecrash.wz.cz/atv2000/atv2000.htm

If you have a fast Computer then i will use divx 5.02 (1-pass Quality-based and Full quality) to encode to an AVI
and then reencode with TMPGE.

[ratt794]

Yes SVCD is far better than VCD for the Following Reasons:

1) Both Fields of video are captured in an SVCD (480 Lines Vertical resolution) MPEG-2 supports interlaced video MPEG-1 does not (VCD).

2) The Horizontal Resolution is 480 pixels across versus 352. This ups the bandwith of the video from 2.2 MHz (VHS) to about 3.2 Mhz or roughly the same as S-VHS. FYI - Dish Network broadcasts SVCD resolution on all their channels (480x480) at about 2500K variable bitrate.

For best quality the bitrate should be above 2400K however I have seen TMPGenc do a good job at 2000K.

[xed]

The wealey answer is that it depends on the video source.
Rule of thumb: if the video source uses B&W and not much motion, VCD will look just about as good as SVCD/DVD.
Specific example: Madonna's B&W music video "Vogue." With TMPGenc set for noise reduction and maximum motion estimation (slowest), a VCD of this video source looks virtually identical to a SVCD. There is a very small amount of block noise visible in the background, and some of the shadows exhibit very slight banding. Other than that, the SVCD version looks just about exactly the same as the VCD version.
For video source with either lots of motion, or lots of detail and colors, VCD will look drastically worse than SVCD.
Specific example: the TV show Andromeda episode "Demon Bright, Angel Dark." With huge battle scenes full of whizzing spaceships and explosions, this video source degenerates badly on VCD. The VCD version looks like a bunch of moving blocks. The SVCD version (if you use TMPGenc with noise reduction set ON and maximum motion estimation) looks very close in quality to DVD (DVDs of Andromeda's first season are currently available at the retail outlet www.blackstar.co.uk)
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SVCD improves on VCD in at least 3 clearly visible ways. First, there is almost no visible "noise" around moving object, whereas all VCDs will show some visible "noise" around moving objects. This "noise" shows up as block artifacts that follow the moving outline of the object.
Second, SVCD appears to have depict motion better. On a VCD rapidly moving objects on-screen can suffer from a slight visual stutter as the bitrate maxes out. SVCD allows higher bitrates, and thus you avoid that visual "stutter."
Third, VCD simply has more detail. A good specific example involves people's faces in the medium background on TV. If you convert an .AVI file to VCD, people's faces in the medium background will tend to turn into caricatures -- their eyelashes and eyebrows will turn into single lines, their faces will become hard to recognize. But on an SVCD or DVD, people's faces don't degenerate into artifacts as they receded into the background. SVCD simply allows more picture detail, and in some cases this is visible. It is not noticeable in closeups -- but not all video sources consist mainly of closeups.