Willi lose quality going from Xvid to Mpeg2?

[ozzhead42]

Im trying to put a Xvid on a DVD. Im using TMPGEnc to incode to mpeg2. Will there be much of a differnce in the qaulity?

[mysticgohan17]

I've recently encoded an SVCD of The Empire Strikes Back. The quality wasn't canged that much from the XviD. The only problem i've noticed was playing it on my PC in a software DVD player. it looks a little pixelated around the edges but it looks great in my DVD player. The video bitrate for Xvid or Divx if its a full-length movie should be between 675-1000 kbit for a good quality rip. the MPEG2-DVD output should be about 3-4 mbit so it will look good on TV. just my 2¢.

[ozzhead42]

Thx i just figured out on Xvid if u extract th WAV with virtaldup, then convert the xvid/wav to mpeg2 is cuts down at lest 6 hours of coding time.

And i ran it for about 10 mins then canceled to see what quailty was lost. Nothing much at all. Will look perfect when look you at it more than 2ft away.

And i Heard Ulead DVD Workshop can burn the movie without any menus? this ture?

[musher70]

Yes, i have done a few of those xvid to dvd and have to
say, you shouldnot try to reencode audio, only takes
4-5 hrs with video only, i use besweet to change audio
to AC3, and use spruce-up to author..Quality not so bad

[smgrif0]

I have done some xvid->dvd recently with some pretty damn good results. Extract your audio as .wav with vdub -> convert to AC3 with besweet -> convert the xvid in tmpgenc ES VIDEO ONLY (this is key- tmpegnc sucks dong at audio conversion), convert in same framerate as original -> author mpeg2/AC3 in ifoedit -> burn in nero. I think you will be impressed.