MJPEG to MPEG2 for svcd

[kwmarriott]

@ flying dutchman. Ah, your info about the hidden settings of the g400 now make sence of my capture settings! I am successfully capturing 1 hr of vhs (15gb with huffyuv), editing it in mspro and creating a 50 minute svcd at 1650kb bitrate that looks very good on screen. The beauty of huffyuv is the speed it edits at. On my athlon 1600xp, when I import the source avi into the timeline of mspro 6.5 it displays instantly, even viewing at one frame-it makes editing a joy. It renders a 50 minute mpeg2 in about 2.5 hours so that's ok too.

Really pleased with this because I can transfer from vhs (and betamax!!!) to svcd.

If any moderator is reading this, if you can find a link to freevcr it is well worth putting on this (very helpful) site.

[Flying dutchman]

AFAIK, the link is http://www.freevcr.com

@kwmariott: I would advise you use CQ75 rather then CBR in Tmpeg, allowing the bitrate to vary between 500 and 2500. CBR 1600 gives me motion artefacts where CQ doesn't.

I capture full-size huffyuv (or even Picvideo at quality 19) and do a bilinear (!) resize to 480x576. This resizing removes a lot of noise from the video. The result of the resizing may seem a little less sharp than a bicubic resizing but don't let that fool you; it encodes better to Mpeg and gives a sharper end-result.

[kwmarriott]

@ flying dutchman. Cheers for the advice but time is against me, I have a lot of stuff I want to transfer and ulead is at least half as quick as tmpgenc. The other problem is editing out the adverts (this is old vhs and betamax from the early 80's-never repeated and just for me). I would have to edit each captured segment before importing it into tmpgenc, then render it.

The quality isn't as good the way I'm doing it but (and it's a big but) the svcd is infinately better than disintergrating video tape!

I guess it's a shame ulead isn't able to handle mpeg2 better, it can do vbr but with very limited options, cbr enables me to accurately predict the end file size so I know it will fit onto an svcd. If I moved over to win 2000 from win98se I guess I could render the whole 15gb file (after editing) and import it into tmpgenc but I'm, not a fan of microsoft o/s after win 98se (and I work in I.T!)

Have you tried freevcr?