TMPEGENC DVD Template problems

[newmanauk]

Hi,

When I use the standard VCD templates for encoding from AVI to VCD the picture is really quite good. What's really weird is that if I use an SVCD or DVD standard template the picture is much worse.

To make things even worse, if I attempt to de-interlace with any setting other than "double" the picture looks is completely distorted with wavy vertical lines.

Any ideas?

My PC setup is in my profile

[bugster]

What is your source material (format, resolution etc) as this has a huge impact on what any encoder can do for you

[newmanauk]

It's SVHS captured at around 720x576 25 fps using Pinnacle DC10+ and virtuadub

After a few hours playing around I noticed that the quality problem was actually a playback problem. It looks like the screen resolution reduces during playback (sometimes) when playing MPG2. When the playback is fine I don't see much difference (if any) between VCD and DVD using the slowest decode method for both.

The problem with de-interlacing still exists though. I get zig-zag results if I deinterlace with anything other than "double"

I tried frameserving from virtuadub and tmpgenc but get the same wobbly image. The wobbles only seem to occur around motion which makes sense I guess.