Animation DVD to SVCD - Help!

[Sybs]

Right, I've been looking, and I can't find a straight answer for this problem, so..
I have several cartoon DVDs I've been backing up to SVCD. Futurama and Family Guy. I'm using DVD2SVCD with TMPGEnc, and I've been making them to 282MB each so that 3 episodes fit nicely on 1 disc. They look alright and watchable, but I think they could be better. There's lots of settings on DVD2SVCD that I don't have a clue with such as rate control mode, motion search precision, field order and CQ values and iDCT algorthims and stuff.

Can anyone advise correct settings for ripping cartoons? Any help much appreciated, thanks.

[Ejoc]

Start using AVISynth filters.

For most Anime I do I find I usally use Telecide() and convolution3d().

I use a 2-pass VBR, 300min/?avg/2520max I made a wizard so I adjust the Average Bitrate so it comes out however big I want em.

[Vejita-sama]

DVD2SVCD actually uses avisythn script files to serve to TMPGenc or CCE. It's a frontend program that runs a bundle of programs for you: vstrip, DVD2avi, vfapi, besweet, TMPGenc, bbMPEG, etc.

You can manually edit the avisynth script file, or change some of the TMPGenc settings prior to encoding. As for what makes the best results... well that depends on personal choice, the type/quaility of source, and desired output.

That is it's hard for us to say Generally speaking 2pass VBR encodes produce better quaility than CQ_VBR. Best quaility do CBR encodes at 2520 (normally SVCD max bitrate) takes more discs thou.

[Sybs]

Yeh, I found that setting it to Auto VBR makes it a bit better, but are there any other specific settings that matter?