pixely videos after saving to disc

[Remyisme]

I've burned number of video files to a disc, two off them were Avi others were mpegs, i haven't watched this cd for some time and now i've watched it again and i noticed that this two AVI files became worse quality when I maximize the windows media player (Not the full screen option). they became pixely when i watch them like that, why is that so, and can it be fixed?

[guns1inger]

define 'pixely'. Do you mean the image breaks up into green squares and parts of the image are missing, or do you mean it looks overcompressed with definate squares defined within the image ?

If it is the former, then your disc is probably scratched, covered in fingerprints, or worse, simply dying.

If it is the latter then I suspect your rose coloured glasses have fallen off and you are seeing the video as it is, instead of how you remember it.

[smearbrick1]

It probably just boils down to one thing: the video resolution is not large enough to handle the increase in screen area.

The video probably looks just about perfect when small, but when you expand it is when you get issues (I just restated your question.)

This will always happen when you expand the playback area when watching a video with low resolution. There is no real way to correct it other than, if it's your own, you can re-encode it to a larger resolution.