my avi looks like crap

[dude]

hello all,

i am the ultimate newbie and have been trying to convert a PAL dvd to NTSC. i was successful in doing so, but the video quality is quite horrible. i've traced the loss in quality back to the avi file, because the decrypted vob files look fine, however, after using dvd2avi, the resultant avi file (approx. 570,000 kbs) looks horrible. and i used tmpgenc, resizing the bitrate to create an approx. 4.3 gb size mpeg, but still, the resultant dvd looks horrible on my standalone.

i guess my question is...what am i doing incorrectly to produce such a visual disaster? is/are there setting/s in dvd2avi i am not aware of which would increase the size of the avi file it creates, therefore increasing the video quality?

all help is appreciated. thank you.

[Don2050]

the only thing I can think of is..make sure in DVD2AVI you are saving it as a project file(I think F4) and not as an avi. That way it creates a .d2v that just references back to the VOB's....and you wont be double encoding. So, it should output the video as a .d2v file not an avi.

try this link http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/cce-advanced.htm

then click on the create a DVD2AVI project file link

then run the .d2v through VFAPI Converter....then load the psuedo .avi file that VFAPI creates into TMPGenc and try that.

[dude]

thanx don, i'll try that.