Will video get better when converting to MPEG2?

[DiscoverPlatinum]

Hey Everyone,

I'm ripping my own VCDs and putting them on DVD. I know I don't have to convert to MPEG2 either. I was wondering if the video or sound quality improves when you convert to mpeg2. If not, then I'm just gonna save time and put the files str8 on dvd.
write back!

DisocverPlatinum

[Baldrick]

No, garbage in garbage out.

[ZippyP.]

Every conversion only causes quality to degrade. Put it to DVD as-is.

[lordsmurf]

If you filter it, possibly.
I've successfully filtered many VCDs in DVD, and improved audio and video along the way. Simple (well, maybe not THAT simple) restoration work.

[ZAPPER]

I am not quite sure that I understand. But if you have the orginal source in better condition than your VCD then I would say to make all new captures and DVDs. This will allow for extras and such and changing the settings. If all you have is the VCDs and they are already DVD compliant you will only be transfering data and shouldn't loose anything that you already have

[DiscoverPlatinum]

ok well thanks for everyone's response. I'll just start putting it on DVD as is. Come to think of it, I never noticed a change in video quality anyway. I didn't know the video quality degrades everytime it's converted. Thanks a lot for telling me that.

DiscoverPlatinum

[NickSaunders]

If you are playing back on a standalone I believe you are going to have to upsample the audio first from 44.1k to 48k

[mats.hogberg]

If you are playing back on a standalone I believe you are going to have to upsample the audio first from 44.1k to 48k

...which is done automatically if you author with TMPGEnc DVD Author.

/Mats

[NickSaunders]

Good point!