Resize method

[JReiginsei]

HI, I would like to know if anyone knows TMPGEnc's method of resizing a DVD 720 x 480 to 352 x 240 VCD. Usually I feed the .d2v from DVD2Avi straight into TMPGEnc and let TMPGEnc do the resizing. I read somewhere that using avisynth frameserves faster. I know how to set up the avisynth script (thx Doom9), but I don't know whether to use bicubic or bilinear resize. Anyone know if TMPGEnc uses bilinear or bicubic?

[tiki4]

Hi,

I don't remember when and where but I read that TMPGEnc uses only bilinear resizing. I cannot verify that this is true but from my experience bicubic gives the sharper image (at least in Avisynth) and as it is much faster to do the resizing in Avisynth I recommend to use that and let TMPGEnc do the encoding.
It seems to me that TMPGEnc does a conversion from YUY2 to RGB and back to YUY2 (or YV12 ?) to apply any filters and that makes it awfully slow.

That's my recommendation: Use Avisynth for resizing and set up the script with GordianKnot (SVCD Resizing), that's really very easy. Maybe someone more experienced with SVCD wants to comment on this?

tiki4