DVD to VCD: Resulting video too dark

[kitten]

Hello!
I ripped a DVD containing episodes of a TV show using SmartRipper, then used DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc, then tried to burn as a VCD using Nero. The brightness of the video appeared to be quite fine all the way through encoding, but then for some reason, the resulting video on the VCD appears waaaaaayyyy too dark on PowerDVD. I did the same thing but used VCDEasy at the end, that that turned out fine. )I had to switch to Nero because my home computer's CD-RW drive wouldn't show up in VCDEasy)
Does anyone know why the video's turning out so dark?
Thanks!

[joker2]

When you encode in tmpenc you can change the brightness in the simple colour corrections under setting before you encode.
This should help when ou playback.

[adam]

I'm not sure why the problem would present itself only when burning with Nero, but this can be caused by over compressing your lumincence levels. Without going into all the details, you can do a forum search if you are interested, make sure and set dvd2avi to RGB output and pc scale if you are encoding in TMPGenc with its default lumincence level. The default luminence level can be changed on the Quantize matrix tab by clicking "output YUV data as Basic YCbCR not ..." but if dvd2avi is set to pc scale then just leave this alone.

This may just be something that PowerDVD is doing too. It might look fine on a hardware player.