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  1. please can someone help me im new to encoding vcds and can pull it off but
    when i encode a vcd the screen is very blocky compared to vcds i have bought.
    is this what i have to bear with or is there settings i could change thanks
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  2. First I have to know which program are you using and settings.
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  3. I pretty new to this myself, I had/have the same problem. What capture software are you using (wild guess - ATI MMC?), if you use the VCD settings while capturing you'll fing that the quality isn't that good. What I do is - capture at a higher bit rate, say 4 Mbits/sec, using mpeg1. Afterwards use a utility like tempgenc (download from this site - click <Tools> on the left) and convert the file to VCD standard (this might take time!!!) this WILL improve things a bit. I'm still trying to find the best way to reduce "blockiness", I'm having pretty good results so far encoding at 5Mbit/sec in mpeg2 and converting to VCD with Flask Mpeg using the Panasonic plugin.
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  4. the program i am using is TMPGEnc and i am converting avi to vcd files so i dont capture my own files but the problem is blockiness is there anything in your opion i can do about it im playing with the settings but really im only guessing as im new to it. i once encoded from a dvd to vcd and that hardley had any blockiness at all and i encoded with xing.
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  5. sorry forgot to write my settings. in tmpgenc i use the palvcd template, the settings - was (advanced) source aspect ratio was - 1:1vga now i use 4:3 625 line (pal) as i want to play them on my standalone dvd and all other settings i leave alone. are the blocks there to stay are am i doing something totally wrong thanks.
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  6. Try increasing the motion search precision (under video on setting) to High or Highest quality. That should reduce the blockyness (at the expense of longer encoding time). If time is an issue, try the Motion Estimate Search(fast). It is better than normal but fairly fast.

    The default setting of normal is not that great.


    <font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Stansell on 2001-08-08 19:09:19 ]</font>
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  7. will the motion thing make a big difference to the blockiness e.g higest insted of normal?
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  8. Oh yes. Do a short test segment and encode using the different settings to see the difference.

    I must clarify - this will help if the blockyness comes after you convert the AVI. If the blocks are in the AVI to start with, then this will keep from introducing new blocks, but can't get rid of the ones that are there to start with.
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  9. also under one of the tabs there is a "soften block noise". Use that to help out as well. 35-40 is a good setting, higher will take out more blocks but you lose sharpness.

    Michael
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