quality matters

[ofershac]

Hi all,
Im using the software "dvd2svcd" and Im trying to figure out how to improve the quality of my svcd's. Im using cce 2.5 and I couldn't really find which settings should I change in order to improve the quality of the final movie.
i don't care how many cd's will it take at the end.

thanks alot,
Ofer.

[REDi]

for CCE make sure you're using 4 pass vbr. anything higher you won't notice. You can also increase the bitrate and such, but i'll leave that up to people who know more about it than I do. I'm interested to see what people say, as I'm also using dvd2svcd.

[cartamy]

Not 100% sure on this, but it was my impression that you could just reduce the number of minutes of video that you want on each disc on the "Bitrate" tab. DVD2SVCD will then be able to use a higher bitrate to fill each disc, thereby increasing your quality. In the "What Is" section to your left, there is a comment in the SVCD section about how an 800 MB CD can hold between 35-60 minutes of video. A range is given because different people use different bitrates to achieve different quality preferences.

[snowmoon]

The biggest CCE setting for SVCD users is the image complexity setting. It should be very low say around 5. I use the one pass vbr with Q=15-25 based on source. The lower the number the better the output, but the larger it gets.

[LeeBear]

If you don't care about the number of CD's it'll take just use a CBR at the maximum your DVD player can handle (most players will be about 2530).

Snowmoon is not correct about the image complexity setting. The setting affects how the bits are distributed and does not affect the output file size. At a lower setting the encoder will use more bits for complex scenes, this will get rid of artifact noises during fast action scenes but on flat static scenes you may notice contour noises (looks like rings around objects) if there's not enough bits to go around. The trick is to fine the best setting that will give you the least amount of contour noise and artifact noise. That setting will be dependent on the particular movie. Note this setting only affects VBR encoding since with CBR there's no need to distribute the bits. Also the setting has a more noticeable effect if the Average bitrate and the Maximum bitrate differs alot.

-LeeBear

[snowmoon]

No, adjust Q for file size, not image complexity.

[LeeBear]

Sorry snowmoon, you're taking about using Constant Quality 1 pass VBR. But like I said if the original poster doesn't care about how many CD's it'll take he should just use CBR.

-LeeBear