I was doing a bit of experimenting with an old XVCD (of the BBC TV series Strange) and I just wanted to get some opinions on which conversion is the over-all better picture.
The aim is to upgrade the XVCD resolution video to DVD resolution.

The first is a re-encode from the XVCD (as .mpg) via TMPGEnc @ 5,000kps.


...and the second is the same XVCD played in a DVD player, captured via an ADVC-50 and encoded @ 5,000kps.


My initial thoughts is that the second picture is better with colour but the first is slightly better regards the detail. They are probably very close really, but I would still like to go with the better version.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Mind you, if I had Satellite, I could capture these off the Sci-Fi channel soon