The quality of recorded video in recordmydesktop

The program recordmydesktop have option "Image quality" from 1 to 100. What quality you're using to capture video from your desktop? What quality do you recommend?

Ian, Russ, and Warwick,
I want to sincerely thank all of you for responding with some excellent advice and suggestions. I have been usng the trial verisons of several plugins on my S-VHS footage as well as some of the filters supplied in FCP X. I have already learned three things: (1) Judicious and conservative use of any of these filters is required to avoid making the footage appear even worse. (2) It's important to judge the results after applying the filter at 100% image size rather than either a smaller or enlarged image. With the former the results are difficult to see, and enlarging the image beyond 100% (e.g. going to full screen mode) on a 30 in. Apple Cinema Display gives an awful looking image because of artifacts brought on by scaling up the image beyond its native resolution. (3) These filters, even those that are GPU accelerated, really require a lot of rendering time. (I sure wish Apple would release a new Mac Pro as this project would really benefit from more computing horsepower than my five year old Mac Pro affords.)
Warwick, thank you so much for the suggestion about the DENOISER plugin from Neat Video and the CoreMelt lock-n-load stabilizer. I am carefully evaluating these as well. It is really going to take me quite some time to experiment with the judicious application of these filters to decide which ones to buy, but I do believe that either some of the third party plugins or even those available in FCP X (thanks Ian for calling my attention to those!) will significantly improve this S-VHS footage.
This is a great community to turn to for advice, and I truly apreciate the fact that each of you took the time to share your experiences with me and to offer suggestion. Thank you all!
Tom

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