Making SVCD

tiger wrote on 8/9/2001, 11:12 AM
I find the quality of SVCD significantly better than VCD. I wish the MPEG encoder with VideoFactory supported SVCD, as it should, but I have found a way.

I have been very successful making SVCD using VideoFactory. I start with rendering as a MPEG2 DV format. Typically I render smaller segments enabling less time to re-render if I need to change something. Then I use TMPGEnc MPEG tools to convert to SVCD and link all files together. Using NERO I am able to burn a CD-R or CD-RW. Either recording plays great on my DVD player.

Comments

MHampton wrote on 8/9/2001, 12:34 PM
I tried that and for the most part was happier with the quality, however, I noticed that when the scene panned vertically, the video did some really wierd things. It was like there were 4 or 5 bands of video on the screen that just weren't quite in sync.

I'd be interested in what settings you used in tmpgenc.

Like you, I sure wish that VF supported this internally. I found that the regular VCDs made within VF were much better quality than what I got from tmpgenc. Is there even a way to upgrade the MPG encoder? I would think we should be able to add codecs to the system since they are all external to VF anyway.

Just my opinion.

Michael
wvg wrote on 8/9/2001, 3:06 PM
For those into Super VCD the following site may prove somewhat useful, in spite that it is bad need of a update

http://www.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/svcd/overview/

I've been laboring under the impression that while the quality of SVCD is "better" than the older MPEG-1 standard, mainly because of better compression and large frame size, unless you have a newer Digital TV which is capable of reproducting the higher resolution you're not seeing all the quality you DVD player is capable of reproducing. Can anyone confirm this is true, or have I been misinformed?
patrickm wrote on 8/9/2001, 8:37 PM
the quality of SVCD can be significantly better than VCD because of the higher bitrates the format supports, and you'll see this as vastly reduced blockiness even on a cheap TV.

you don't need to spend quite as much time re-encoding if you're happy with the MPEG-2 quality of the GoMotion encoder in VF. just create an MPEG-2 stream with a max bitrate of 2520 video, avg prob 1800-2300 depending on the source and your taste, 480x480 res, and generally progressive looks better even though interlaced video is supported. take this file, demux it in TMPG, then remux it under the SuperVCD VBR MPEG-2 option. then just toss it into nero, vcdimager, or whatever you're burning with.