Go ahead punk make my...VCD's Better :)

[menace]

Ok, here's what I'm doing and what I don't want to do, and I want you guys to see if there's a way I can do this better.

What I use:
PIII 667 with ATI Radeon VIVO 64DDR
5400 40GB maxtor (dma on and defraged with 80 pin cable)
VCDcutter
Tmpgenc

What I'm doing:
capturing shows (stargate sg-1) from the satellite dish (mpeg2 source i believe) and burning to disk. Sometimes I have to edit and sometimes i don't. The capture is at 352x240 @ 2.01kb/sCBR at mpeg1. results 45min = 1 CD sweet quality.

what I want:
same quality, 2 shows on 1 CD

What I don't want:
right now it takes me, time to capture +edit time +smooth time (5mins) through tmpgenc +burn time to make them. I do not want to encode for 2 or 3 hours for a 45min program.

The question:
given the criteria above is it possible with my constraints to get 2 shows on 1 CD at the same or close to the same quality. You may adjust all parameters besides the time.

[menace]

judging by the chorus of crickets that i hear in the background i think its safe to say this thread can be removed.

[spiderman2k1]

There nothing you can do but try another capture program and use 90minute CD's I have the AIW Radeon I must its a peace of crap get your self a Dazzle 2 and make SVCD of SG-1 like I do

[Sulik]

I don't agree. You can make great captures in MMC.

You need to lower the bitrate in order to get 2 shows in the same space. You can keep a pretty good quality at 1.6Mbps -> make a custom MPEG1 preset, use IBBP (P=4, B=2), set the motion estimation to 100% and lower the bitrate as low as you can go for the quality that is acceptable to you.

[Macros746]

If you want decent quality and you want two episodes on one disc you are going to have to encode. Here is what I figured out with Buffy archiving: Capture to MJEG through AVI_IO, VirtualDub or MMC. Edit out the commercials in Virtualdub using Mark in Mark Out (this is MUCH faster than MPEG editing...if I could edit MPEGs in Virtualdub my life would be complete.) Then frameserve to TMPGenc and use Sefy's SeVCD enhanced template. You'll get two episodes to one disc with very good quality (slightly better than regular VCD I would say)....just leave it to encode overnight...no skin off your teeth. Ready to burn in the morning.

Macros

[neomaine]

menace,

here's what I do for capturing all my B5 episodes:

- Create a VCD Compliant template, MPEG1, 352x240, 1150,CBR. Use the registry edit tool listed under tools and follow its directions.
- Use TMPGenc to demux & re-mux your capture. For some reason, simple de/remux doesn't work as well for MMC captures. Always use the VCD-Non Standard for MMC stuff when in tools.
- Use TMPGenc mpeg tools to cut your video down. Usually you can get it down to anywhere from 38-40mins without commercials (15mins), trailers(1-3mins), ending credits(.5-1 mins) or previews (? mins).
- Get some 90 min CDRs and you can fit both episodes. You may even get lucky and overburn to some 80min CDRs.
- Takes me 5 mins tops per episode to cut and prepare for burn.

Have a good one....