how to improve the quality of home made VCDs

[shaun_au]

Thanks for people who helped me here. I got my first VCD made and it worked on my Toshiba SD2200. I had to go down to Bestbuy to get some CD-RW to make it work. Still very excited about the success.

After checking out my first VCD production, I noticed the pixelation effects along the edges of objects when the scenes are moving fast. Is it possible to improve the quality of my VCD without going SVCD? My Toshiba doesn't support SVCDs, bummer. Or it's as good as it can be?

[lee mu bai]

in TMPGENC, set the Motion Search Precision to High or Highest Quality.

[gillman99]

I have a followon question.

I've captured a movie from my digital video camcorder and tried to convert it to mpeg1 and mpeg2 using TMPGENC. The problem is the quality is bad and I did set the motion to high.

What's suprising is that MPEG1 is much better than MPEG2, but not nearly as good as the original AVI that was captured.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong in TMPGENC.

Mark Gillman

[thxkid]

Bump up your Bitrate to 2520, I do this all the time and they come out a heck of a lot better and I play mine in a toshiba 2050.

[ktnwin]

In order to increase the quality of the VCD, I switched to XVCD (not SVCD because it's still not good enough). By selecting CQ_VBR 80 (birate min 0, max 2500), I got the best looking XVCD.
Just make sure the DVD player can play XVCD format.

[thenewboy]

Hey Guys!

Try download Sefys' TMPGEnc Template. You can find it in "Tools". It has some very good quality result and also could save you some cd-r! Try it!

Make sure to read the guide that came along in the zip file. Good Luck Jordan