DV to SVCD

[wpeter01]

Hi,

I am capturing my DV material via Firewire to my harddisk using Visual studio 6. Afterwards I take the avi, open it in TMPGenc and convert it to SVCD. My material is full screen size (4:3). After burning the CD I get some strange "clouds" around obstacles and persons. It looks like some kind of artefacts. On the other hand if I record a movie from DVD via composite input and use the same templates for encoding and the same program for burning my results are excellent. I know having a 16:9 movie the whole bitrate can be spent just on a part of the screen, but I did not expect such drastic differences. Hope my explanation is clear and somebody can help me.

My system WIN 2K
VCD easy
TMPGenc
Vstudio 6.0

[Oracle]

Hi

Give 2-pass VBR a go or if you player can handle the extra bitrate up the bitrate.

I make a lot of XSVCD`s from DV(4:3) sources and generally my Home Vids are around 20 Mins.
I use 5000 av 9000 max 2-pass VBR 720x576, gives me perfect encodes everytime. Plays great on my Mustek.

If you want to keep to the SVCD bitrates. Drop the resolution to 352x576 & 2-pass VBR this way you will get more bitrate per pixel.