Hi,

Thank you for Super (c), it's the answer to 12 months of hell. A Godsend.

I have a JVC GR-PD1 camcorder. It uses its own format, mpeg2-ts, which not much can read. The footage is almost HD, but not quite. In fact, because the dumb machine won't send anything higher than 720x586 down the firewire, much of it's extra resolution is wasted anyway. But I digress...

It's 25fps, progressive scan, 18,000 bitrate, in true 16:9, 384kps 48000 mp2, so it's got plenty of info in the file. The info analyser reckons it's mpeg1-ps and it could be 50fps with each frame shown twice, not sure on that.

Super (c) reads it no problem and various encodes (VOB, h.264, etc) all work fine, but on my crappy 17" monitor I can't quite tell which is closest to the original (a good problem to have), but more importantly, which will play and look best on DVD and a big TV. (PAL, btw.) The automatic 'to-DVD' settings don't like the weird format.

It likes 720X576, forced 16:9, all the numbers maxed and unchecking the deinterlace. But which format is really keeping the most info I can't tell. Any thoughts much appreciated. Not fussed about encoding speed or size of files, I just want to salvage as much quality from the originals as possible. Quality, quality, quality.

And you should see the .m2t turned into Sony Ericsson 3Gp, mpeg-4, 25fps, forced 320x176 widescreen at bitrates of 528 and 96 stereo, running on a K800i. Flawless. This converter is unbelievable.

AMD 64 3.2, Geforce 6800 (no native h.264 - dunno if it matters), gig of ram, big enough HD. VLC player + Super (c). Single-layer DVD burner.