VCD Quality Help

[sseligson]

I am using an ATI TV WONDER card. I am using MMC 7.0 software. I am able to capture VCD by checking off the VCD setting and doing a capture. My porblem is the quality is poor. It is blury and sometimes choppy. Is this what I can expect from a VCD or do I have to do something to get better quality?

[BlackWinterDay]

I am also using an ATI TV Wonder card, and by using the following steps I'm able to get fairly good looking VCD's.

1. Capture using 352x240 MPEG-1 at 2.00 MBit per second with motion quality set to 100.

2. De-Multiplex in TMPGEnc to create an audio and video stream.

3. Convert audio mp2 stream to a wav file using TMPGEnc.

4. Open wav file in Nero Wav Editor and apply noise reduction to entire file (For some reason I am getting some background hum in my setup. By highlighting a section with no sound and setting noise reduction to 100%, I now created a preset that will eliminate this)

5. Create an xVCD template in TMPGEnc by "unlocking" the VCD template and modifying the settings as you see fit. I have changed the bitrate on my VCD's to Automatic VBR (Maximum 2000000 bits Minimum 0 bits) and dropped the audio rate to 192000 bits, and this allows me to still fit an "hour" long TV episode of something or other onto one disc.

6. Set your filters and encode! The only filter I really bother with is noise reduction set to 33 for all fields... And I lower the overall volume of the file so it isn't so loud when played back.

That's all!