I'm using AVI2SVCD's decompress.exe to decompress the audio from XVID. Then Encoding in TMPGEnc as MPEG1 both aspect ratios set to 16:9 NTSC, motion predict and "full screen, keep aspect ratio". It gives me rather good results. I watch my movies from 32" Sony Widescreen.

The question is, should i use AVS script in the middle, does that improve the qulity? And how about first separating the audio and video in VirtualDub, does that have any affect Then where should i do the adding audio to video? (muxing?) What would be the best procedure..

I also read that "Only use MPEG2 if MPEG1 doesn't work, MPEG1 is better quality" -from kwag example..

Really appreciate the answers to these questions, Thank you

eschaton

Yes, you should use avs script.
About the virtualdub - the more experienced people here say that this program encodes the audio better than the others so you should use it too After extracting the audio to wav file you must convert it to a mp2 file. I use headac3e for this.
And at the end - the muxing. I use TMPGenc (but not version 2.59) - "File->MPEG tools->simple multiplex". You can use the programs bbmpeg or mplex too.

Yes don't use decompress.exe but VirtualDub for Audio-Extraction! Make sure you have it on "Full Processing Mode" !

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