How can you Improve on MPEG2 quality?

[soloforce]

I have spend allot of time converting my old VHS tapes to mpeg2 using the Dazzel Hollywood Bridge product. The authoring program is called DVD complete which does a nice job at putting together the DVD’s.

I have put hours of VHS tapes through their mpeg2 encoder only to find out that the quality of the final product on my TV looks like SHIT.

Is there anyway to take the countless hours of MPEG2 video that I have and filter them and make the resolution better? Without going back to the original tapes and input them all again. I also deleted all the original avi’s that where created from these tapes before making the mpeg2.

HELP

[Treebeard]

lets start by saying
Garbage in Garbage out -- meaning you cant improve your now shitty mpeg2's sorry.

I would suggest getting you avi's again
and then use a different encoder. like tmpgenc or cce to encode your mpeg2 files from the avi.

[LanceSteel]

SLBOSS926 is right. The Mpeg2's that you have right now are about the best that you can get (you can't make them better.) The only solution is to recapture and then reencode.

[MrKGB]

Can you give some more details: resolution you captured at, bit rate, did you burn vcd or dvd or svcd?
I am not sure, but I think somebody reported here that he also didn't get good quality from this relatively expensive product, then bought simple capture card for $50 and liked it much better. You will need good PC if you will go with capture card though.