DVD to VCD quality issues

[JanezAddiction]

I have been burning dvd to vcd via smartripper and tmpge (the walkthrough on this board). Anyaways, Everything is working out well as fas as sound/picture. But....The picture quality kind of sucks. It's seems to show alot more digital type of blurrs. Is there any way to improve that? I have been using the recommended templates as noted for certain frame speeds. ANyone? Thanks in advance

[robertsmith26]

i have this problem as well.

[pinoy2201]

for sound try to encode the wav file that DVD2AVI makes to a mpg layer2 joint-stereo audio file with SCMPX

for the video go put the motion search presicion to the highest quality this will make the encodeing longer but it will be worth it

and here how the audio option sould be setup for DVD2AVI check it out on this page
http://www.flexion.org/video/DVDConv/DVD2AVI/dvd2avi-audio/

[sracer]

I have been using the SmartRipper -> DVD2AVI -> TMPEGENC (standard VIDEOCD template) path to rip DVDs and the results are absolutely stunning. Playback on both PC and Pioneer DV-434 are near perfect.

This was using Sefy's original instructions which basically use the above tools at their default settings (except for the TMPEGENC template).

[Kdiddy]

bitrate, bitrate, bitrate..that is the only true thing that will have an enormous affect on quality...but remember, you are encoding at a bitrate about 15% of the original, so do not expect DVD quality.

[mvdude2001]

Can we encode to a bitrate of 3000?

[Kdiddy]

you can enocde at whatever bitrate you feel comfortable with

[Vejita-sama]

Actually most DVD players have a max bitrate of ~2800kbit/s total. This is because they are 1x or 2x DVD players. Find for DVDs but not so good for x(S)VCD.

For the best quaility you need to use a high bitrate (1600~2500kbit/s for the video) and unless you're using the DVD max; 2pass VBR.

Also up the resolution to 352x480 or 480x480 to caputre both fields (this makes a huge difference). Set motion search to high (highest is overkill, adds time but almost no quaility).

Remember it's all in the bitrate and resolution. 480x480, 2pass VBR, and motion search=high.

[Kdiddy]

yes this I know, I posted the same thing myself in another topic...,actually you 2x example would give you a theoritical max birate of 5600bps....but you have to go with the information that was given by him (mvdude2001), he said nothing about watching it on a standalone player...so with the information given SO FAR by him, he can do it how ever he wants, because a computer harddrive/cd-rom drive will spin it fast enough to be played correctly....Ive notice with a huge new influx of newbs here, you can't assume anything.