Best way to create a (S)VCD...?

[ezeevivek]

Hi,

I am a novice in creating VCDs. The problem is quality of VCDs created is very poor, pixelated and jerky.

I use WinDV for capture DV from cam in AVI format and using NERO 6 Ultra and TMPGEnc for creating (S)VCDs and VCD formats. But in both case quality of movie is very bad.

Please help how to create best quality (S)VCDs.......?

thanks in advance!

[Cole]

What speed are you burning your (S)VCDs at. I never burn above 8x.

Assuming that your source file is in good condition, this could also be an issue with your DVD player. Do your (S)VCDs play okay on your PC?

I have two DVD players - a Toshiba, which was about £80 and a Compacts that cost about £35. The Toshiba has a hard time in playing VCDs (can get a bit jumpy) but the Compacts plays them perfectly. Sometimes it just happens like that!

Hope that this is helpful.

[bugster]

Your source is DV, so I guess its home video. This is part of the problem. Home video shot with hand held camcorders invariably suffers from camera shake. You might not notice it but the encoder does and it eats up bitrate, leaving less for encoding a quality picture. Also, VCD and to a lesser extent SVCD are low bitrate, so any bitrate lost to camera shake is valuable.

You could try one of the de-shake filters available for virtualdub or avisythn prior to encoding, this should help a little. I certainly reccomend TmpGenc for VCD, and for SVCD too.

You can get away with Nero for burning your CD's, but don't let it encode anything as it is a poor encoder, supply it with already compliant mpegs from Tmpgenc.