S/VCD Encoding Dilemma - Needs Big Help

[poorquoi]

Here's the situation - I captured 20 music videos from band-new VHS tape at 352x240, 3000 kbps video & 256 kbps audio.

I have the option of converting the MPEG 2 to MPEG 1 and make a compliant VCD or convert the MPEG2 2 to make SVCD.

The problem (I use TMPGenc 2.02 to convert):

1. To VCD - the video quality is poor & blocky & and there is cracking and hissing in the converted video. When converting to VCD the video/audio parameters are standard.
2. To SVCD - since I originally captured the music videos at 352x240, converting to SuperVCD makes TMPGenc to resize the videos to 480x480 which makes the video quality poor and blocky and stretchy. The maximum video bitrate is about 2500 kbps and audio is 224 kbps. The audio has cracking & hissing & sometimes skipping a frame or two even worser then VCD - Takes way too much time to encode.

1. Under motion search for TMPGenc, which is the best to use in this senario?
2. What can I do with the audio problems?
3. Which format do you think you would choose: VCD or SVCD?

Thanks for all the help.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: poorquoi on 2001-12-31 01:08:35 ]</font>

[Kdiddy]

If you can, capture at your highest resolution & bitrate possible...if "352x240, 3000 kbps video " is the max you can do...then I would definitely recommend, staying with VCD...not only more compatible with more players, but because you never want to encode to a higher resolution.

I wouldnt use TMPG for audio, well I would, but I would recommend using the TooLame plug-in to let it do the audio.

Most people say the setting of "High" is the ideal setting. Highest doesnt add "real" noticable qualitry gain but does add significant time to encode process.

[poorquoi]

Okay,

The video problem is fixed. But I still have problem with the audio. I used TooLame in TMPGenc, it produced better quality (no cracking, no hissing) BUT there is more skipping in the audio).

Should I demultiplex the videos and the audios, then use TMPGenc to multiplex them again into MPEG-1-VCD complaint?

If there're other audio plugins tool for TMPGenc, please give me a link or the name.

Thanks.