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sebus wrote on 3/19/2002, 5:17 AM

I simply can not take your comments on poor quality of mpeg2 renders.
How do you capture your DV?
Try to use something (like scLive) that will use (but have it installed first!) EXCELLENT MC DV codec. This bypasses (I believe) the SF DV codec that you so complaining about.
It is interlaced avi now. In VV set your project as progressive & render to SVCD as progressive.
The results I am getting are WAY better then TMPEGEnc, CCE, LSX etc.
Simply the MC mpeg2 codec is the very best in my tests. Not the quickest, but would not use anything else out there.

And yes, I am working on not perfect quality of DV footage.

In my tests none of your arguments stands!

sebus

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doboyd wrote on 3/28/2002, 8:05 AM

I have just read all the posts in this thread, after I posted with similar problems re: PAL SVCD, progressive vs interlaced.

I see the same problems with PAL SVCD interlaced, and I have to deinterlace to get clear playback on a normal TV. There is blockiness in motion scenes and when the camera is panning/moving. Yes, progressive does look better at the same bitrate, some sharpness is lost, but in motion scenes or camera panning, its blurry. As stated by a couple of people, interlaced should stay interlaced if viewed on a TV, from what I have seen using TMPGEnc. The resultant MPEG is clear and no blurring. BUT the blockiness etc is evident with motion etc, and higher bitrate is needed.

So it would seem that interlaced MPEG encoding is not possible, and its the same from my experience for PAL SVCD or DVD. I cannot play MiniDVD's on my DVD player, but I can play the MPEG files on an ISO CD. I would like to use the SVCD template, but up the bitrate and resolution, as my DVD player will play SVCD's at 720x576, 4500Kbps. But the modified template crashes while encoding, so it would seem that I cannot modify templates.

If I could get proper encoding of interlaced material and create templates that worked then I would be happy. I still would use VV3, I thinks its great, so I'm not going to stop using it for deiting etc, but the encoding is a problem. I have tried TMPGEnc etc, and while good, I also have problems with them. I would like to use VV3 and its encoding.

So.. any answers?