THE BEST VCD HARDWARE ENCODER

[alebertaz]

What's the best vcd hardware encoder to capture vcd compliant files?

Pinnacle MP10?

Dazzle Dvc?

Hauppauge PVR?

other?


Thanks!

[DVWannaB]

A few years back, some said the Provideo PV-231 was the best VCD cap card. I tried it and was not impressed.

I cannot comment on the ones you listed. But I really believe that you should capture full frame video (720x480/576PAL or even 352x480 could work) at a high bitrate (MPEG2 or AVI) and then use software encoder to produce VCD. It is the long way, but the best results I have experienced by far!!!

[alebertaz]

I usually capture at the best settings with my Pinnacle Mp10: 3000 kb/s bitrate, with this gop structur: IBBPBBPBBPBBPBBPBB. Then convert video eith Tmpgenc with high quality (slow) motion search precision...good results...but it's too slow...I'm searching for a video hardware capture encoder device that can encode videos directly to video cd format on the fly...

[cd090580]

You can use Mainconcept encoder to make you video it has a realtime mpeg1-2 encoder.