Video rate

[clt1dpw]

I am new to the VCD community, but I am hoping someone can help. I have been recording television show on the computer and tring to make aVCD out of them. When I play them on my DVD player they look very grainy. I have another video that I have downloaded from the net and I burned a VCD from it and it looked great. My question is how can I find out the bitrate and frames settings from the downloaded file so that I can reset my tv show to look as good?

[siaododo]

When you record off the TV, try capturing it with the best quality setting your capture card can do, then convert it to Mpeg. It is most ideal to capture in AVI format. Try using HUFFY lossless codec which you can download for free, but it uses a lot of HD Space. The better the quality of capture, the better to convert. The files you downloaded from the internet are probably ripped from DVD's, which is quite difficult to match with the capture equipments you have, unless you have real expensive professional capturing equipments.