VCD to DVD: Jagged Video?

[vcddude]

Hello all,

I followed Lord Smurf's Guide to convert VCD to DVD (to reduce the number of discs I need to keep track of) and unfortunately, when I play the resulting DVD, the video looks fine when played on the PC but it looks "jagged" (I can't find a better word) when played on TV via standalone DVD player. "Jagged" in the sense that it's a bit blurry, and edges of objects appear rough and pixelated.

The process I used (a la Lord Smurf) is as follows:
- Extract DAT to MPG with ISOBuster
- Author DVD with extracted video files with TMPGEnc DVD Author

The source files were 352x240 MPEG-1 VCD files. Any idea why I lost some video quality on TV playback? How to fix it?

Thanks,
vcddude

[Gazorgan]

It should look exactly like the original VCD-CDR did. It's basically the same file (the video isn't re-encoded).

The only difference is how your standalone player reads it (via DVDR instead of CDR). It could be bad media, but probably not.

[vcddude]

Yeah it looks like an issue with my DVD player -- it seems to dislike MPEG-1 on DVD.

vcdude

[Sasarchiver]

Did you convert it from NTSC - PAL or vice versa? i have come across that if you have a NTSC (29.97fps) and convert to PAL(25fps) 352*288 you end up with like jagged lines running through it...SasArchiver

[vcddude]

Nope, just burned existing NTSC VCD MPEG1 files.

vcddude