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If you're working to make your very first VideoCD, I'd suggest you try the method I published in Create VCD compliant with VideoCD 2.0 standard.
Because Super-VCD and Mini-DVD aren't readable with standalone DVD players (particularly in Europe and the in the U.S.) I really need to make standard VCD at best quality (VHS quality). Thus I tried several adjustments and software to tune this process achieving the perfect VCD.
To avoid picture defects due to Hi8 source, I made my perfect VCD from a DVD player source. I've plugged my standalone Philips DVD-950 to composite PCTV input. The DVD is "The whole nine yard" with Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis (in French: Mon voisin le tueur). I did it with 20 seconds capture and I've put a Nero image to download. If you know another process to make even better quality VCD, don't hesitate to email me.
As usual, my settings are for PAL but it's so easy to make it with NTSC settings (352x240, 29.97fps).
Adjustments for VirtualDUB :
I capture 20 seconds in a resulting 180MB AVI file.
First, we have to deinterlace the movie, the filter telecide from
Donald
Graft is appropriate here.
The PCTV produces somehow noisy lines so I have try some filters to soften
a little but we have only one filter that work only on lines, it's the internal
general convolution. It's a 3x3 matrix and if we applied with 0 values
for up and down, it will only affect the picture through the line and keep the
detail at maximum meanwhile soften the PCTV noise.
Then we must resize to 352x288. I should resize to 318x270 within 352x288 letterbox to correct Philips DVD-950 default scale but I don't in order to keep a standard format for this example.
Therefore, filter with VirtualDUB following this order :
Table 1 (general convolution settings, total must be 256 to maintain Luma and Chroma levels) :
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 80 | 96 | 80 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
Filtering and resizing provide with a 80MB AVI file.
Encode to MPEG-1 with Video CD (PAL) template from TEMPGEnc, but
with also these settings :
The process lasts for about 2 minutes and provides with a 3.36MB MPG file.
Use Nero (5.0.3.8) or WinOnCD (3.7) VideoCD 2.0 project to burn the perfect VCD. You can download Nero image from this example at monvoisin.nrg (6MB).
Et voilà !
Download:
Related Leon's Lab pages:
Software and capture hardware for the perfect VCD :
Refer to bibliography in Create VCD compliant with VideoCD 2.0 standard
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Version of the document: 1.0EN
Created: February 19 - 2000
Updated: March 5 - 2001
Author: Leon