Nubie can't get close to VCR source quality on SVCD or VCD

[godsmackman]

I think my computer hardware is not the problem. Pentium 4 w/ 2 GHz and 256 M RAM. 25 GB left on drive. I use Win TV. I capture from my VCR using virtual dub (which helped compared to Hauppauge software). I have used the virtual dub temporal smoothing filter and sharpen in combinations. These helped alot.

The only thing I can think of which causes my final product to be so "blotchy" compared to the original VCR source is my use of Nero burning software. It uses ARTEC -WRR 4848 to burn my VCDs. I also use JHepple for AVI to MPEG conversion. I have bought upgrades to both to do MPEG2.

I have a 60" projection TV, but that shouldn't matter since my metric is to get back to the VCR quality that it came from.

[stryker1080]

that blotchiness is compression, try capptrring straight to mpeg and change the vd rate to min 1,500