best way to capture for creating SVCD

[tjd17]

I'm a newbie, so be kind. I have an All in Wonder Radeon on an Athlon 1.2 Ghz, 256 MB Ram, 40 gb hard drive. My goal is to capture video from my Video Recorder (8 MM tapes)to SVCD to play on stand-alone DVP players (I've successfully created and viewed VCD's, but I want as high quality video as possible). From going through the Forum posts, it seems that using the ATI software is not the way to go. I tried capturing using the ATI software to capture to mp2, then burning to SVCD using Nero 5.0, but Nero did not like the file. Could someone please provide idiot-proof steps I need to take? If I can use the ATI capture software and get good results-great, if not, let me know what to use (Virtual Dub?). I stress 'idiot proof'-I'm technically competent, but I'm completely new to capturing, so I'm not up to snuff on the jargon. Thanks for any help!

[Beavis]

Spending a lot of time going through the guides and old forum posts along with a lot of trial and error is the only way to go to find what works best for your equipment and source material. To get you pointed in the right direction, though, I'd recommend capturing AVI using virtualdub and HuffyUV or some other MJPEG codec. Capture in full vertical resolution (ie. 352 x 480 for NTSC) for best quality. Process the AVI with VirtualDub filters to suit your tastes and finally encode with something like TMPGenc to MPEG. There are LOTS of details and issues you'll encounter, but the only way to go is to start reading and trying and searching the FAQ and forum for advice once you've started.

[Steve_h]

I've got a similar setup and a Hi8 analog camcorder. This is what I do for the fastest and highest quality XSVCD's of my home family videos:

1) Capture through my AIW to MPEG-2 480x480 at 4500 bps.
2) Burn on Nero 5.5 as non-compliant SVCD. That's it!

This depends on having a DVD player that can read it. I have an Apex 660. Also note this: Prior to Nero 5.2something, Nero would not directly produce a non-compliant SVCD that would read on my player. After a free Nero upgrade, my XSVCD's would play on the Apex.

[tjd17]

Thanks for the input. I will give that a try tonight. I will let you know how it goes.

[tjd17]

Steve_H,
Well, no luck. When I played the CD in my Sony DVD player, it gave me an error (CD is dirty). Hopefully, I can fiddle with the settings and have some luck.
One question. You said I should set to capture at 4500 bps-where do I do that? I think I saw where to set that, but it was in mbps, so I wanted to make sure I had the correct setting.
Thanks again.

[skippyvcd]

Where did you get the setting 480X480 please.

All I can see is 480X240.

Thanks!

Skippy

[jeremypps]

as I've seen in other topics best way to go is get an avi then convert it to mpeg/mpeg2, but if you want to get directly the mpeg2 svcd suitable from your ati you get some problems.
in mmc 6.x you have less choices of resolution than 7.x, so this could be the first problem (in this case, you should set res to 480x240 i.e. than exit mmc and go hack windows registry, there is a guide somewhere don't remember).
the mpeg2 made with an ati needs to be demuxed and muxed nack with tmpgenc, the guide I was talking before explains all, if I find it I'll send post; anyway is something like run tmpgenc, go file -> mpeg tools, demultiplex (you get 2 files), then multiplex (choose mpeg2 supervideocd), then you can burn the file.
other way to go is go get Nero_New_SVCD_MPEG2_Plug-in.exe, use it with nero 5.5.x, in this way you can feed nero with the mpeg you get with ati and should work fine.
You better take a look around and see if somebody explains this better than I did ...

[jeremypps]

found it:
http://www.members.home.net/richa/svcd.htm