Hi

First of all : I'm new to the forum here, but i've bin following VCDhelp and this forum for quite some time now, it's bin a great help for me to capture my old VHS tapes and converting them to VCD and SVCD......thanks for that guys, keep up the good work.

But my problem with the quality improvement, i can't seem to solve myself, i've bin looking for topics for this but can't find them.

My system specs ;
Win XP
Ahtlon 1200
Asus V7700 Ti DeLuxe (used for capturing and calibrated in VDub)
Maxtor 40 Gig 7200 Rpm

Capturing with VirtualDub @ 352x288
Compression during capping Huffyuv, with hardly any frame loss.
I can capture up to 720x576 with minimum frame loss

Converting to MPEG2 with TMPGEnc, CBR (tried all setting, with the unlock template but this gives best result)

My goal is to play the SVCD's on my standalone DVD player and with the Header trick i can play SVCD cd's on my Sony DVP-NS305, which isn't SVCD compatible according to specs.

Well my problem is that the endresult looks like a copy of a copy of a copy from an VHS tape, and the source tapes aren't that bad.
It's my understanding that SVCD could look great, nearly lossless if i'm not mistaken.
Capturing in higher resolution gave no improvement, the interlaced image isn't handled well by my DVD player, no matter if i change fields (top&bottom) and de-interlacing gives just about the same result as capping in 352x288.
VBR encoding gives audio out of sync with the DVD player.......etc etc

Can't think of anything more to try, hoping for some help here

in advance.........thx

Scar