I need Your Best Answer To this....please !

[alakoma]

i have the complete collection of the thundercats.
there r all in avi, i want 2 change them 2 svcd.
so far no problem, i know how 2 do that.
but the problem is that the files are very small
about (50mb to a 21 min. movie). so the quallty is not so good, on full screen. i want to convert to mepg this file on 4:3 size without any
blocks or nosie or something.
can any one tell me from his experties on svcd, what the best why to convert them ?
by the way im using thmpg program.

i have here some info on one file from virtuldob

frame size 320x234, 15000 fpb
# of fames 19750 (21:56)
min/avg/max key frame 2063/6288/9594 (406K)
min/avg/max delta frame 0/2543/19237 (48900K)

10x in advance.

[W_Eagle]

Hello pal,

frame size 320x234, 15000 fpb
# of fames 19750 (21:56)
min/avg/max key frame 2063/6288/9594 (406K)
min/avg/max delta frame 0/2543/19237 (48900K)

Your source's resolution is below that of a VCD. You cannot have an encoded file with a quality better than your source. Thus, I see no point comverting it to SVCD, better convert it to VCD.

Take care

[macleod]

You have a divx file and not a true AVI file. As the other poster mentioned, you will NOT get good results from SVCD since your source is below SVCD.

Actually, from the sound of it, your vcd probably won't look great either because the frame rate is below the min. 23fps for ntsc film. A thought would be to hook your vcr up to your computer and record the divx file onto vhs and then use the do a vhs capture to vcd. You may get a better result. That is about my only suggestion for a newbie. Other than that use the search function here for divx to vcd and see what other people have come up with (I am assuming that you have already read and tried the guide specifically for this situation - also for anime and it didnt produce good results???????)

[alakoma]

yes i tried to convert several time the result wasnt so good
so i wanted 2 know if there is a way to use a difrent matrix or
a function that is on the thmpg program for loose the blocks that apper
and do more sharp image ?

[W_Eagle]

Hello pal

so i wanted 2 know if there is a way to use a difrent matrix or
a function that is on the thmpg program for loose the blocks that apper
and do more sharp image ?

This depends whether the blocks and un-sharpness are in the original, or during decoding to VCD. If it is in the source, sharpness may improve somewhat by incorporating the noise reduction filter in TMPGEnc
(Setting -> Advanced -> Noise reduction).
If the blockiness is on the source, nothing can be done about it. If it is generated during encoding, there are some templates - see the "Tools" section on the menu to the left. Also, by increasing bitrate blockiness is reduced.

Take care

[homerpez]

Ultimately, if your source "doesn't look so good", then your output "doesn't look so good" either...

Since your source is so small, and you say isn't so good quality, then there's noplace to go with it...

Occasionally with large DIvX's (700 some px wide), if you resize down, you gain back SOME quality, but with yours it sounds like you can encode it to a so-so quality VCD, or nothing at all...

I would go ahead and make that VCD, just to make it easier to play on your standalone. I have lots of comedy clips (commercials, etc) I've downloaded and made into VCD's even though they look crappy... but VCD format is easier because of my DVD player...

Just don't expect miracles...

[kinneera]

You could just encode with borders - in other words the video resolution stays the same and you pad it out to VCD standard 352x240/288 by adding black borders. The framerate in my mind is the worse problem, as it will almost certainly play back with a very nasty stutter, unless you want to hand-interpolate about 10 frames per every second.

[alakoma]

10x everyone
i will do some exsample and hope for the best

10x a lot.

[homerpez]

Let me add one thing...

When you do encode (and am I reading that right, it's 15 frames/sec?) just go ahead and encode 24 frames/sec... it shouldn't stutter too much so long as you are encoding MORE frames than you are inputting, it's just that some of the encoded frames will be redundant...

If you have 29.97 frames/sec, but encode at 24 frames/sec, that's where you'll get stuttering...

(Of course I forget... if your videos are 15 frames/sec, it's probably less than the TV show was originally.. and it'll stutter anyway because of that...)

Never mind... Good luck...