Making a SVCD, having some issues

[TheDeputy]

I am new to making SVCD's and I just got some 99 Minute CDR's and I'd like to minimize the amount of throw aways I get.

I just finsihed using TMPGEnc to convert all my Smallville episodes that I have into MPEG-2 format. I then used the latest NERO to burn them to a SVCD. In TMPGEnc i used very high quality when encoding.

I'm playing them on my DVD player which works fine, but I'm having some issues with the quality. The show seems quite pixelated in some area's. It's not very crisp. Is there anyway to fix this? Or is this the best quality I can get out of SVCD?

Is there any other way to get a higher quality of shows like Smallville, Enterprise, etc.. on a CD to play on the DVD Player? Please let me know

Thank you,
TheDeputy

[Tommyknocker]

Remember, in addition to using the templates, tweak TMPGEnc using this guide.

[TheDeputy]

Remember, in addition to using the templates, tweak TMPGEnc using this guide.

So with the file I have then, all I need to do is tweek the settings. And converting that file I've downloaded and converting it to MPEG2 is my only way of getting good quality right?

Thanks for your help

[wulf109]

What bitrate are you encodeing at? What resolution are you using. What resolution did you capture in.

[TheDeputy]

The Resolution is 368x208. It's the basic resolution you find on Kazza. As for any capture information I have no clue. I wasn't the one who captured it.

[paulgab]

I'm using TMPGenc Plus SVCD template VBR 1950kbps, 2-pass and I'm getting very good result. Compared the quality to the template CBR 2520kbps, the 2-pass VBR 1950 is better and even to a XSVCD rate of CBR 3500kbps, still the 2-pass VBR 1950kbps is better. So it is fine if you choose 2-pass VBR when encoding your SVCD and you can get ~1 hour of good quality video in a CDR-99.

I found one simple way of comparing the result (without using test instrument)of my settings on TMPG is to encode a video with a running water in the background (eg waterfalls). With this, the portion where the water is running is somewhat pixalated if encoding is not good. Of course on the portion where there is no runing water, you can barely notice any difference.

[TheDeputy]

I'm using TMPGenc Plus SVCD template VBR 1950kbps, 2-pass and I'm getting very good result.

So in the settings of 2-pass VBR, did you change the Average, Max, and Min all to 1950?

EDIT: How long does this one take? I know with the old setting I was using it was 4.5 hrs. This one with the new settings you gave me, with all values set to 1950 it's going to take about 10 hours. Is that about right?

[paulgab]

I used just the TMPG svcd template, 300 min, 1950 ave, 2520 max, 2-pass vbr. Yup, it took me around 7 hours to encode it.