AVI Huffy compressed to high quality DVD compliant.

[willy_annand]

I have several (300+) VHS tapes that I wish to convert to DVD. I wish to end up with the best quality Half-D1 compliant files possible.

I capture with AVI_IO, it seems to be the one my Winnov Videum 1000+ card likes the best (it always complains about VDub - drops many frames). I capture to 720x480 Huffy AVI.

I want to convert the Huffy AVI file into the best quality Half-D1 file I can, I don't care about squeezing "more" onto DVD, I want quality.

Currently I simply capture, then demulitplex the file (TMPGEnc), convert the sound to 48K using Cool Edit. Convert the video to Half-D1 using the KVCD template, someone said it was great quality. Then multiplex with TMPGEnc.

After that I author the DVD with DVD-Lab and burn it with either DVD-Lab or Nero.

Someone suggested I use AVISynth to get better quality, but I can make no sense out of the scripts. I don't have time to learn a scripting language just to convert some files...

Any suggestions on getting the best quality?

[lchiu7]

Seems like a lot of effort given your source material. Why not capture directly at 48Kz to save the editing phase. Then you get a compressed (huffyuv) avi file with the right AR and sound quality. Then run the avi file through tmpgenc using a standard DVD template, author with whatever authoring program takes your fancy and then burn to DVD?

I have been capturing LD's via s-video into a Hauppauge Win TV card using iuvcr in 720x480 48kz 16 bit sound. I get a few dropped frames but usually only about 3-4 in an hour (output file is 33gG!). THen process into MPEG2 using tmpgenc and author with DVD Movie Factory and burn with Nero

Larry

[willy_annand]

DOH!!

Never thought to look and see if AVI_IO could cap at 48KHZ.

Thanks lchiu7.

I just checked and have set up AVI_IO to cap at 48KHz.

I was wondering about filtering. Or any way to improve the quality.

[Vejita-sama]

I would capture at 720x480 w/ 48khz audio

Then encode with TMPGenc at 352x480 8000kbit/s CBR.

The kcvd template is for CVD, nothing wrong with that but check the bitrate (it's most likely 2520kbit/s).

[willy_annand]

The kcvd template is for CVD, nothing wrong with that but check the bitrate (it's most likely 2520kbit/s).

I just checked and you are right. The bitrate is 2500 Max and 300 min.

Thanks Vejita.

[lchiu7]

Out of interest I am capturing LD's at the moment. 720x480 seems overkill I am sure given the native resolution of LD isn't that high. What should be the right resolution to capture NTSC LD's?

Larry

[willy_annand]

I am not sure about LD.

I cap at 720x480 due to the fact I am authoring to DVD and that is a stanard DVD resolution. Half the time I reduce it to Half-D1 which is 352x480.

[Vizcaya]

Am I doing this right? I capture VHS at 720x480, then convert to mpeg using the same resolution, then burn to DVD. I want the best quality possible, and I get really good quality when I set bit rate at 5500kbps.

If I dropped the resolution in half, and increased the bitrate, would I get better or the same quality as the 720X480 resolution?

Thanks
Viz