NFL games & TMPG...

[JJamez]

I'm doing some testing now so I'll be ready to archive some NFL games to SVCD when the season starts..

If any of you have encoded football before, you'll know its VERY challenging to get a good mpeg translation without jacking the bitrate way up. Its almost impossible to eliminate artifacting around each individual player with the solid green background behind them.

Anyway - I'm 'capturing' with my ReplayTV at high res, transferring to PC and encoding in TMPG w/ VBR 1400 avg. at 352x480 so I can fit about an hour or so per CD - I'd like to get each game on 2 CD's. If memory serves, minus commercials most games run about 2-2.25 hours or so.

Question is - anybody have any tips (filter settings, etc) to help the artifacting a bit?

As it is now, I keep it interlaced and the picture stays pretty sharp - but the artifacting is a bit annoying, although bearable. I'm using 'Soften block noise' at the default setting of 35,35, but no filters.

I'm not going to 3 CD's as it would be awkward to divide up, and 4 CD's is a bit excessive.

Thanks a lot....

[shardison]

Perhaps dropping the res to 352x240 and making an xsvcd would look better... blurry, but more appealing.

Or give up svcd and made regular vcds with much the same result and a few more minutes per cd.

Or watch the game on a smaller screen TV and you won't even see those nasty artifacts. I have a 52" TV with DirectTV (mpeg2) source---- football looks like crap most of the time... but on a smaller TV it looks great.

[hitechjunkie]

if you can load your source video into vdub, use the smart smoother filter for those annoying artifacts and frameserve to tmpgenc...