The best DVD to VCD capture I've ever seen...

[yumagah]

I've been using the Amoisonic V2000MKII digital recorder
to capture video to VCD & SVCD. The results are usually very good, but the latest results are almost amazing.
I was playing a region 2 DVD on region-free Raite player
and capturing to MPEG1 VCD. The result floors me because there is NO visible artifacting - NONE! I have done many VCD's before and there is always a small amoung of pixellation visible. Usually I'm going from VHS to VCD, and I use SVCD to capture DVD video. This is the first try at DVD to VCD, and the quality looks just about as good as the MPEG2 on a SVCD. I wonder if the PAL format of the DVD video signal has anything to do with this?

[plg-tae]

well thats good for you...but only lamers capture a dvd to vcd or svcd.....or plain lazy people...no need to capture it and pray it comes out good when u could just rip it properly with the many guides and tools on the net...not to mention you would have true 23fps with pulldown which cant be done by capturing......idiots...

[JCPicache]

plg-tae:
you seem to have a lot of angst in you.
just because other people have faster, easier ways of making VCDs don't make them 'lamers'.
if anything, people like you are lame.

yumagah:
good for you man. perhaps you can upload a sample so we can see for ourselves?

[thxkid]

Hey you have the right idea about capturing, I use the hauppage PVR to capture to SVCD all the time on a 2 hour movie I can have it done and on 2 SVCD's in about 30minutes after the movie is captured including all the printing done, crap this rip your dvd's off will take you 2-4 times longer, if you even have a fast computer. anyone who spends all that time to rip a DVD to a VCD or SVCD has way to much time on their hands.
I could see a rip if you were going from DVD to DVD, but the results to VCD or SVCD will not be noticable, unless you are using a cheapo DVD player instead of a higher end model that will have either a 27mhz, 10 bit D/A convertor or the brand new 54mhz, 10 bit D/A convertors.
Also try capturing your VCD's at the higher 2520 bitrate, I get no macro blocks at all at that bitrate.

[yumagah]

I'd be glad to share some clips but I don't know where I can post
them. My home website doesn't allow MPEG files. I can share
them on Morpheus if anyone want to use that. Does anyone
know a free site provider that allows MPEG's ?

[PrOLiNe_]

plg-tae
Member


Posted: Feb 18 22:32

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well thats good for you...but only lamers capture a dvd to vcd or svcd.....or plain lazy people...no need to capture it and pray it comes out good when u could just rip it properly with the many guides and tools on the net...not to mention you would have true 23fps with pulldown which cant be done by capturing......idiots...


This dude is a lamer. May be this person dont want to wait the 8-10 hours to reencode, and that is if they have a fast 1.2 gig on up system, otherwise it could take up to 30 hrs, as in a Celeron 400.

Dumbass ;)