THanks alot guys!! Your topics on improving vcds helped me o

[y2flyy]

Okay my dvd player supports vcds and svcds
when i did regular vcds in mpeg format I didnt like the quality
it just what what i was expected in watching a movie
So I started doing svcds in mpeg2 format which looked better but it took an additional 3 hrs to encode and I have a fast computer
so I would not use Svcd that often b/c they take to long for me
so after reading and going over the topic making vcds better
by kdiddy and a few others, I did a little exploring
So what I did was open a Svcd template in Tmpenc and changed
one thing the resolution. I changed it from like 450x450
to 350x350(??) (the regular resolution for a mpeg) and kept the bitrate at svcd format something like 2500
So the good news is it encoded very fast and the quality was great. i guess this is what you call an xvcd. So basically the 450x450 didnt look any better than the 350x350(??) and it takes 4 hrs to encode!! So its the resolution takes that takes so long. But its no difference in the end at the same high bitrate.
Thanks alot it made a big difference for me I learn alot from this forum.

[Vejita-sama]

Actually it's the resizing of the resolution that slows things down. If you don't resize you greatly improve speed. The SVCD standard resolution is 480x480, the VCD standard is 352x240. Making a SVCD at 352x240 is what Sefy's SxVCD template is all about (that in CQ_VBR encoding). You might want to give them a try.

Don't forget that the quaility of the source makes a huge difference in the quaility of your encoded MPEG. A DVD rip encoding with an ave bitrate~1600, 2pass VBR, 480x480 & motion search set to high (MPEG1 or MPEG2) looks DVD quaility. But takes a long time to encode.

But a DivX source will never look all that great (unless it's not compressed that much).

[y2flyy]

hey vsama thanks for replying Im not a newbie but Im still learning
Hey how do you adjust the brightness in tmpenc I looked everywhere and I cant find the settings
talk some more on this subject so is doing what I did considered svcd
so you're saying that its not necessarily the resolution but resizing
so if I keep the svcd 480x480 or higher and dont resize
I wont take as long
and another question is there a difference in the actual mpeg1 video and the mpeg2 video
like if I do a mpeg2 380x320 video (dont remember the actual size)at 2500 (xvcd)
would it look the same if I did mpeg1 video 380x320
at 2500
Thakns y2flyy

[speedy]

Hey how do you adjust the brightness in tmpenc I looked everywhere and I can't find the settings?

Click on SETTINGS, then ADVANCED, then DOUBLE CLICK on BASIC COLOR CORRECTION. Use the scrub bar to move through the video. You may also want to tweak GAMMA.