old WMV format files 768K bitrate, what filter/sw to improve

[TBoneit]

Well in other words I have these older captures that were done in WMV @ 768kbits (below VCDs 1150Kbits even). Live and learn

Now that I have them I can run them thru TMPGenc and make a 352 by 240 by 48Khz audio and burn to DVD. However the results are so-so.

What software should I use (Vdub Mpeg? or Tmpgenc) and what filters to improve the visual results. I'm looking for something without frameserving since for some reason I can't seem to get the process thru my thick skull.

The problem is some look decent except high motion and others just look fuzzy all the way thru, and no I can't go recapture them, Dang-it.

I burned a test DVD and some of them seem to have a fuzzy effect around figures in motion. I wish I could re-cap with my Canopus ADVC now, but gone is gone. Live and learn. Damm cheap $20 capture card!

Some things I'm not going to bother trying to fix as I have the S-VHS camcorder & Tape and can do a do-over thru the Canopus. Others were from other family members and are gone to who knows where.

So any thoughts?

I'd try frameserving if anyone knows where to get a framserving guide for dummies tutorial. But even then I prefer the one step at a time approach. IE set up TMPGenc and run it's batch process while I sleep.

Thanks
Roger

[DJRumpy]

Your probably wasting your time. Simply resizing them to a higher resolution, or changing the type of file from WMV, to MPEG gains you nothing (you actually lose even more quality).

The problems your describing are compression artifacts. They are probably embedded in your source video. Put there when it was created using a low bitrate, and carried over to anything you create from your source as a result. You can try to filter them out, but given the poor quality of your source to begin with, I'd say that was also a waste of time. If you want to try anyway, you can try a temporal smoother in VirtualDub to remove the mesquito noise around objects.