Which is better???

[Fernando Poo]

First I have to say I love this place. so much information!!!

Ok, I have an ATI 7500 all in wonder, 756ram 1.6ghz P4 and 160gigs worth of space. I need to know which is the best option of capture and convert. Do I capture as a high quality .avi file then convert to vcd format? Or do I capture directly to vcd? Hard drive space and processor speed is not an issue. What is everyone's experience with this?

Thanks

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[adam]

Its always higher quality to capture to avi and then convert to mpg. Of course the more lossless the codec you use to capture to the better the quality source you will have for encoding. If hard drive space is of no concern than capture to raw uncompressed avi. If hard drive space is a concern capture to huffyuv or mjpeg.

For vcd encoding I recommend either TMPGenc or panasonic mpeg1 encoder.

[bruce48]

I output to raw avi, then use TMPGenc and then burn SVCD with Nero.
The result looks like VHS!

[Fernando Poo]

Cool, thats what I thought. I am using MMC 7.7 to capture, using medium DVD format. Is that what you mean by "the more lossless the codec"?

Its always higher quality to capture to avi and then convert to mpg. Of course the more lossless the codec you use to capture to the better the quality source you will have for encoding. If hard drive space is of no concern than capture to raw uncompressed avi. If hard drive space is a concern capture to huffyuv or mjpeg.

For vcd encoding I recommend either TMPGenc or panasonic mpeg1 encoder.