I have been trying to convert home videos taken on a Sony DV cam to xVCD to play on my Pioneer DV-F727 (F272 will not play sVCD).
I capture PAL DV using Ulead VideoStudio to AVI. 1st attemp to encode using VideoStudio, and 2nd attempt using Nero encoder gave very poor results, lots of motion artifacts. Then tried encoding with TMPGenc at 2,500 bps, picture looks good but no sound????

Any ideas (1) to get best picture considering the PAL to NTSC conversion, at the moment I am just setting the source file in TMPGenc to PAL settings and the output to NTSC VCD settings. (2) how do I get the sound in TMPGenc? (sound was OK using VideoStuio or Nero encoder. (3) best template to use??

Any other ideas...

I burn using Nero.

Many Thanks.