VCD Comercial movie quality

[kwag]

KWAG,


I believe that is the answer to my ealier question and CCE is much better than TMPGEnc. TMPGenc has the manual VBR mode you can set for handling different scenes but there is no absolute gauge for you to tell the quality of the pictures. In this advanced CCE VBR configuration, you have this quality gauge - namely, if you maintain Q<9, you will not see the difference between the source and the encoded output.

As far as I have been able to test, TMPEG is bettter than CCE for every MPEG-1 encode, in every situation. I haven't done further tests in MPEG-2, but eventually I will.

Here's a quote from the people of DVD2SVCD about that:
"...Encoder tab choose TMPGEnc as it encodes much better at VCD mpeg-1 video
than CCE does and choose Constant bitrate (CBR) for Rate Control Mode"

That's here:
http://www.dvd2svcd.org/vcd/

kwag

[Douglesh]

I watched some comercial VCD TV series. The picture is so sharp and only during fast transitions, one will notice some minor blockness. Also, for high contrast texts, you don't see Gibs effects. I tried TMPGEnc left and right for months, with different profiles I could find here, following different leads. I don't think TMPGEnc can do it, at least I have not made one close to comercial VCD quality with the same bit rate.

That leads me to think there are better VCD encoders out there that can produce better picture quality with the same VCD bit rate.

I wouldnt expect anything much better than TMPGEnc from ANY software encoder. What you need is a very expensive hardware encoder. The top of the line will give you industrial grade results (at a very very high price though).