grainy noise, and distortion

[kamachi923]

ok here is a pic of what my cap looks like

http://www.geocities.com/kamachi923/Pictures.html?1053819497196

im capturing with mmc7.7 to mjpeg at 19, with a res of 640x480. i have tried using vdub filters and avisynth. like 2d cleaner, cnr2, peachsmoother, snr, alot of smoothers, temp cleaners, temp smoothers. but still cant get rid of the grainy quality. and if i do alot of the show tends not to have alot of close ups. so every time i do get rid of the grain(but i never get rid of all of it), the faces and features become to blurred and undesirable, with some filters they tend to become distorted with an out of place blocky look. my intent is for it to be watched on tv. so i believe i dont have to dienterlace it if i have read the posts correctly, but any ideas on filters for vdub or avisynth would be greatly appreciated. if dienterlacing would help then i would be more than happy to do it, im trying for best quality not time but i would like to fit 43 min on one cd. i use tmpg to encode it to svcd then use the header trick.

ps. i have tried alot of those filters but combinations and settings would help. i now there are different types of noise hi low etc. so im not really sure of what type of filter i should be looking for. im willing to give anything a try. so thanks in advance for you help.

[dar1us]

Try and include more details, what capture card you are using... What your source is. It is generally accepted that OTA (over the air - through an aerial) is going to give you a lot more noise, this is because most tuners have quite poor quality tuners and cant get very precise tuning. Ideally, you would be capturing digitally off satellite or HDTV, but that is not the issue. If you are capturing from a sat box, try not to use an RF Output, tuning it in, this can be quite lossy and add noise. Try using a composite output, or scart>comoposite. That is a good starting point.

Dont worry about removing noise, worry about stopping it in the first place. Possibly better earthing the capture card, cable from the source to the card will avoid some noise.


dar1us

[Boulder]

Looks to me like normal analog noise. There's not much you can do about that unless you can come up with a better tuner (use your VCR for tuning for example).

If you're making a VCD, you must deinterlace. MPEG-1 doesn't support interlaced content. MPEG-2 (SVCD) does.