video quality

[lowrunner]

i just converted a avi to svcd using the how to guide,it worked fine but the picture quality sucks and the audio doesnt mach exactly #1)do you always need to mess with the audio when converting?
#2) is there anything i can do to clean up the picture quality? its very slightly rough looking. or is it just the quality of the movie i down......
bad in- bad out

[codi]

Do not Hijack threads, please start a new one.

Craig

[Craig Tucker]

1. If the audio has a variable bitrate then when you encode with TMPGENc it will mess up the audio sync. Open the file in vdub if it has vbr audio vdub will give a warning, if this is the case save it as an uncompressed wav file.

2. Whenever you encode you will loose some quality, so if your original file is not too great, don't expect miracles when you encode.

[Graham]

Here's a similar question: I'm getting bad video quality but I know it can't be the downloaded video, because I've tried burning 5-6 different source videos. The guides say VCD quality should be about the same as VHS tape quality, but it isn't in my case, I must be doing something wrong. The picture doesn't seem to be defined very well, somewhat fuzzy or blurry, and sometimes blocky. I'm trying to play the VCDs on a Classic DVD-102 standalone player.

First I downloaded several MPEG music videos and ran them through TMPGenc to convert them to .mpg files (which I don't really understand because aren't MPEG and .mpg the same thing? but for some reason I wasn't able to burn unless I ran them through TMPGenc.)

For the aspect ratio in TMPGenc I used 4:3 525 line (NTSC). I don't know what the difference is between this and 4:3 525 line (NTSC 704x480) and 4:3 Display (can someone explain) but I tried the other ones too and they didn't change anything.

Then I used VCDEasy to put the .mpg on a VCD using the slowest burn speed (x1) on my Iomega burner.

I then tried the same process with two .avi files I downloaded and got similar results. Can someone help me out?

[lowrunner]

i dont know why i didnt do this befor but i watched part of the file i downl..... as avi and the lips on the charactors match the words correctly.so why when i encode it it screws it up? i used cinema craft encoder in dvd2svcd. i went by the directions in the "how to"-"convert"? can anyone help? oh yea one more question how come on my movie after encoding and burning, theres the cinema craft encoder signia on the bottom right of the screen.how do i get rid of it? what should i have done?
Thank you