VCD v2.0 MMC Methods

[Aaron Borg]

My Specs:

Windows XP
900Mhz Athlon
ATI AIW Radeon
512MB PC133 SDRAM
60GB DMA100 HD
Creative Labs Awe 32 Sound Card

My Questions:
It seems that the majority on the forum users want to record SVCD. My AIWA player doesn't do it, so I want some VCD only info. I' using the MMC 7.1 software in XP. I have this custon profile setup:

MPEG-1
CBR
5.99 mbps
352x240
Deinterlacing ON
Visual Masking ON
Everything else is default.

I record 60 minutes of Voyager and I get a 2gb file (+/-). That file looks fine. I use TMPGenc to convert to VCD using the Noise Reduction at 25-1-20. The VCD looks fine, but I "think" it should look better. Still scenes look good, but action scenes look a bit blocky around the edges of people that move. Is there anything else I could be doing in the MMC to change this? Anything else in the TMPGenc to help?

I've tried capturing at 352x480 and NOT deinterlacing but it looks like crap no matter what.

Is there a REALLY big advantage in recording to AVI first and then converting to VCD?

Is there a big advantage in recording at 5.99 mbps and then taking it down to 1.15? should i go higher? lower?

Aaron BOrg

[Anonymous65]

In video with a lot of action, you will *always* get some blockiness and edge noise when using the low bit rate of VCD. There are many settings in Tmepg you can play with, but try to capture video at 704x240 in MMC if you can. Let Tmpeg do the resizing. It will reduce the edge noise, and make the video sharper.

[WildStyle]

SNIP***I've tried capturing at 352x480 and NOT deinterlacing but it looks like crap no matter what.***SNIP

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I guess you now know why people want to record to SVCD, huh?

Use the ATI registry tool that, I think, is still available here. Look around for it. It will let you record VCD ready streams at the best quality, for your system, possible. Good quality for VCD IMO.

With an AIW and a big drive try capping to AVI then encode.

[jeremypps]

I still have to try capturing at higher resolution (352x576), but I obtained a quite good result capturing 352x288 avi (PAL) and then encoding with tmpgenc, I think you should try and see the difference