I have got enough of the thread where MC codec was complained about.
All your summing up below is right.
I would love to go DVD, but have no DVD recorder & also I have no source material to try to make it DVD. As I can only work with the original not good quality archive VHS material SVCD is the most I can expect to produce.

Are you having results that are not satisfactory (again I did not test it on very good quality DV material from proper camera, yes I use DV Bridge)

Also straight play of AVI in a player would be nice, but at 20 + Gb per film could be a bit problematic right now. Maybe in a future?

sebus

Ah, if I understand you correctly, you are bringing standard VHS material, which is by your own admission not very good (is VHS ever?), into VV. Presumably, you used an A/D convertor - unless your camera is a VHS model? When you test encode to MPEG2/SVCD, which is also not very good, you find the VV encoder to be as good as, if not better than, CCE and Tmpgenc. You also have a preference for 'progressive' as opposed to interlaced encoding.

Is that a fair summing up?

If you are happy with that, then that's good and I'm pleased for you. I only wish something similar would happen to me ;-)

It would be nice, wouldn't it, if we could just plonk the original AVI onto a CD/DVD and the set top DVD player recognise it and play away? Don't suppose that'll ever happen - no commercial call for it.

Thanks for responding.

-Pete