faded colors in finished vcd

[Lightnin Rod]

Thanks in advance for your consideration. Enjoy this site. Am 53yrs. old. I am hooked on digital video.

When I play a finished vcd on my stand alone dvd player the colors are faded and washed out. I have to radically adjust the settings on my tv to have a decent presentation. I would appreciate some tips on preserving the colors in the video. I use an external capture device and capture in raw avi with no compression. I use Tmpgenc to encode to mpeg1 and write to my cdrw drive. Everthing else is fine except the faded colors. Thanks for your consideration.

[Anonymous65]

I would turn up the colors during capture so that when playing the VCD, the colors have the correct saturation. If you have poor color resolution, then you will have to check at what stage the color goes bad.

[TIbrO]

That used to happen to me when I used to use Panasonic MPEG Encoder. TMPGEnc doesn't do this to me. Maybe his DVD Player's decoder chip is one of those not so good ones, such as the ones found in Apex players and other supercheap players...

Another thing to keep in mind is that your monitor's color profile is not the same as your TV's color profile. On your superior monitor the colors may appear to be fine, when in fact their numerical values were set to 50% everything perhaps, and once you view this on a TV, it shows its true colours.

[baker]

There is a simple way to fix the panasonic problem:
simply change the colour settings from tv to pc and the colour will be alright.
However I don't know what the probl;em with tmpegenc is.

Baker

[Lightnin Rod]

First i refer you to my original post. Since that post I have been trying some ideas. I hooked a television to my tv out to act as a monitor. The colors were faded and the edges of the images were soft and blurred. It looked exactly like the finished vcd. The resolution looked like the cheapest oldest color tv you could imagine. Is the color values of a television and the colors values of a pc output that different? I wanted to play my vcd's on a stand alone dvd player through a regular tv and have the video look as good as vhs tape. Apparently that ain't going to happen. Would appreciate some ideas. thanks.