is there anyway I can get clearer mpg's??

[ShadowDweller]

Hello everyone, I am fairly new at this and today I encoded and burned a mpg (SVCD)... When I watched the movie, Saving Silverman, on my dvd player at certain parts of the movie the video would get just alittle blurry... I also noticed that it also was alittle choppy at certain scenes... is there anything that I can do to make the video clearer?? perhaps use a different format such as vcd or xvcd?? I encoded this movie: Super Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-2 480x480 29.97fps CBR 1998kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps) is there any better setting that I could use? thank you for your help... oh by the way Saving Silverman is a really funny movie...

[Vejita-sama]

SVCD/MPEG2 is better than VCD/MPEG1. I would try 2pass VBR instead of CBR for better quaility. The number given by bitrate calculators works for either CBR or 2pass VBR.

This sounds like a DVD rip. So I would try DVD2SVCD. It's a front in loader that will do pretty much everything. It uses CCE to encode instead of TMPGenc, but it's faster and yields higher quaility.

You can d/load DVD2SVCD beta11 and CCE at http://www.doom9.org, just read the guide. It's the demo ver of CCE, so there'll be a watermark in the bottom right corner. I've heard that there's a crack to remove it