DVD RIP vs My capture system sound and video problems

[hardwork12]

I have been experimenting with the system to determine how good (or bad) my capture system is. I did a DVD rip of "men in black II" and also did a capture of the first 3 minutes of the movie.

The capture was set at 44.1Khz stereo 16 bit, 352X480 YUY2 interleaved, huffyuv compress, virtual Dub was used.

I encoded both the capture and the same three minutes of the DVD by selecting the segment in TMPGEnc so I could compare picture quality and sound. I used Kwag's KDVD Half D1 (48Khz sound encode setting). The DVD RIP ran perfectly in my standalone DVD player so I know 48Khz plays just fine. The encoded capture that was captured at 44.1Khz has sound problems. The sound was broken up (stuttering).

I then did annother encoding of the capture with the Kwag template SKVCD (CVD template I think) and the sound was just fine when encoded to 44.1Khz.

What did I do wrong? I thought I read CVD's are compatible with DVD except the sound has to be upsampled to 48Khz so obviously I did not do this correctly. My question is how is this done? My plan was to make CVD's now in 44.1Khz s and later when DVD are cheaper to convert the CVD's to DVD's. My parents DVD player can not handle the 48Khz CVD so that is why I want to stick with the 44.1Khz for now and then go DVD later.

How should the 44.1Khz sound be converted to 48Khz?

Video not great either. My capture system is not very good the video was off color wise (too pink/redish on the faces) and even with the same encoding (bitrate) the capture is either fuzzy or out of focus so this is very disapointing. Now I know why my project to capture 8mm is going so poorly. I have to capture using the composite so maybe this is normal and all I can expect to get. I played the original DVD on my TV with the composite output and it is very good quality so its my capture system.

Is there something about a captured video that needs more bitrate to look as good as a DVD rip? If not my capture system (averTV stereo) is not good enough. I will play with some filters but is that a lost cause and can not fix the captured video?

Thanks ALL

[hardwork12]

Still can not get the 44.1khz sound to reencode to 48Khz would like some advice on that.

The video is much better. The capture now is almost as good as the DVD RIP. Both encoded using TMPGEnc with the SKVCD by kwag.

I tried gamma correction and some edge sharpening and this did help some but not great.

What worked great was I did a capture with vDUB but I went from 352x480 to 704x480. Both were done with Huffyuv compression, YUY2 interleave. The difference is amazing not just a little better almost equivalent to the DVD RIP now.

This worked but it does not make sence to me. I thought since I was using a composite video connection the best resolution this can supply is less than the 352x480 so how is it possible that the 704x480 was so much better. The color was very close to the DVD now and the "fuzzy or out of focus " picture I mentioned in my first post is also almost gone very acceptable now. So why such an improvement i am encoding the same way same bitrate

Thanks again