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    This forum is tremendous, but thought I could post to get a head start on a couple of things.

    I have a 30 minute home video (MPEG) that was created with MGI Video Wave III/IV two years earlier or so. Video looks and sounds awesome via PC.

    Successfully, I've used NERO to burn a VCD and played back on entertainment center. Looks mediocre, sounds great.

    Goal is to make quality better.

    1. Would I be correct in assuming I should make an SVCD?
    1a. If so, must I convert my MPEG (MPEG-1? 352x240, bit rate: 1,843,200, fps: 29.97) into an MPEG2.

    Clarification would be greatly appreciated!

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  2. Is your mpeg VCD compatible, if not nero will reencode and it doesn't do that great a job. If you need to reencode use TMPGEnc. If your source is VCD mpeg1 1150kbps 352x240, then reencoding it to mpeg2 SVCD specs will not make it look any better, if anything it will look worse. Remember crap in = crap out.
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  3. I would (in Your place) try to make XVCD i.e. switch compliance check off. If this fails, it is time for TMPGEnc.
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    Is your mpeg VCD compatible, if not nero will reencode and it doesn't do that great a job. If you need to reencode use TMPGEnc. If your source is VCD mpeg1 1150kbps 352x240, then reencoding it to mpeg2 SVCD specs will not make it look any better, if anything it will look worse. Remember crap in = crap out
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    Sorry, I don't know how to make those cool boxes!

    When I use NERO's wizard to burn a Video CD and provide my MPEG, the CD DOES play successfully in VCD mode on my Toshiba. But, is the MPEG itself compatible is something I do not know.

    If I understand you, then IF my MPEG is VCD compatible, then when I ran it through NERO it reencoded it anyways and since it does not do such a great job I got crap out.

    If I can determine that the MPEG is VCD compatible, what options would I select differently in NERO to burn without encoding?


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    I would (in Your place) try to make XVCD i.e. switch compliance check off. If this fails, it is time for TMPGEnc
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    Okay, I'll make an XVCD and if the quality looks much better then I have a partial solution, ... but then my selection of Home Entertainment Center DVD's that will playback the movie is narrowed. Correct?
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  5. If nero does not give a compatability warning, then it is compliant and nero will not reencode it.
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    Nero did not give a compatibility warning, ... do I have the option of improving the quality any other way? Can tmpgenc improve it?
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  7. You can add filtering, but to be honest if your source is poor your output file is going to be poor. Garbage in = Garbage out.
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    Yes, garbage in = garbage out, but the mpeg quality is FINE on PC. It was the VCD quality that lacks.

    I am going to follow-through on some of the suggestions.

    Thank you!
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