AVI to MPEG conversion quality

[amadhu]

am very new to video capture and making VCDs. I have captured 10 minutes of video from my DV camcorder using Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.0. The quality of the AVI file is pretty good. I then did some editing (just added few titles) and created a MPEG-2 file (the idea was to make SVCD). The quality of the MPEG file is very bad, whenever there is some action the picture gets blocky. I even tried TMPGEnc to convert AVI to MPEG with no change in result. Am I missing anything here? Here is my machine configuration:

Processor: AMD K6-2 400MHz
memory: 256MB
Capture device: Pyro 1394
Video source: Sony Digital 8 camcorder

[BJ_M]

what settings did you use in tmpgenc ?

[amadhu]

I used the PAL SVCD template
Thanks,
Madhu

[G-man]

Are you basing this quality on playback on your PC or from a DVD Player? If you have not already done so, I suggest trying making a VCD to see if that has similar problems.

When I tried making SVCDs, I too had problems playing them back smoothly on my Daewoo DVD Player. But the VCDs I created were actually pretty good. I have since moved to a DVD-R burner and am getting excellent results.

[snowmoon]

Also since most DV's are interlaced playback quality on a TV will be dramaticly diffrent than on a computer. Always judge quality based on TV viewing, not PC watching. I gave up on Tmpgenc and moved to CCE about a year ago, and only use the multiples/demultiples tools now.

Take your time, expirment and don't give up. I'm still trying to get the most quality out of SVCD and I'm still learning more every month after 2 years! My encoding, despite a few minor spots are better than any s-vhs recording even on my 42' HDTV and these disks don't wear out.

They by far produce the best quality/space ratio of any STANDARDS COMPLIAINT disk format. I only wish the Spec had the forsight to allow 4x cd-rom devices as the added peak bandwidth would have made my job much easier.

Oh, when you said blocky... are we talking image gets blocky or random blocks start appearing? image gets blocky can be reduced by better encoding the latter needs better media or a slower burn to correct.

[troyvcd1]

Are you using ms to encode your mpegs. If so be sure you dont install the upgrade patch for ms. Even so this is about the best you can expect