Makeing a bad quality vid better quality

[dj619gior]

I have ok quality and some bad quality vids I got online and when I play em on my 56 inch widescreen it looks like crap and on outher tv's how can I make a video a better quality what porgram should I use and what setting.

THanks a lot for takeing the time to read this I have been makeing vcd's for a while now and I used a lot of programs but not to do that.

[Mirror_Image]

Better quality than the source? Nope.

[dj619gior]

thanks so there is none at all to make a video look a little better.
poor me lol
what programs do you use to conver to vids to mpeg
I use tmpgenc and a few outhers

[BJ_M]

well you could apply smoothing filters and also can adjust brightness, colours, contrest and gamma.. you can remove interlacing lines ..

but as said .... pretty hard to make much better than the source..

mpeg is a lossy format --- every time time you re-encode it it is going to be worse anyway ..

[snowmoon]

You can not make the vids look better than the original, you can remove some of the offending artifacts, but you would probably loose signifigant quality. Any lossless compression will 90% of the time ust end up distroying the video more than it already is.

When I capture TV I have to use some slight of hand to improve the quality of the image, but my source is 720x480 MJPEG ( need raid 0 for huffyuv ) and I can afford to screw with it some before reducing it to 480x480 and encoding in mpeg-2. The noise reduction I use removes the grime from the video without overly distroying the image. The mpeg-2 encoder also has an easier time since it's not encoding noise. My TV is a 42" widescreen and through componient inputs my SVCD's are between S-VHS and broadcast quality.

I stoped trying to download video a long time ago after realizing that 75% of people have crappy 25" tv's and could not tell the diffrence between macroblocks and boobs or video noise and artifacts.

[trekkermaster]

As said, the best you could do is to apply some filtering to your source. I use TMPGenc and noise reduction... It yields descent results in my case.

I experimented with alot of templates out there and came out with the best results using the skvcd template from Kwag (www.kvcd.net).

Good luck

[dj619gior]

thanks 4 yore help every one
I have one more question
I bought a geforce 4 mx a while back and I want to get a tvcapture card so I can tape tv on my computer
But am I able to use both vidcards at once like one in agp or both in a pci slot??
Thanks a milionnnnnn