dvd display

[wan2no]

i have a problem. when i burnt the dvd and i played it in the standalone, de display is all distorted that is like 2 or 3 times its size and it's lookin kinda pixelish. it's done under widescreen. is there any way that i can keep the movie at it's cute size without losing any quality. i mean i know i'm askin for the impossible but plz if it can be done plz tell me

[guns1inger]

Crap in, crap out. Basic rule of video.

What was your source ?
How did you resize and encode it ?
What programs ?
What bitrate ?

[wan2no]

i don't understand wa you mean by de source. de movie file i used was a clip of the crazy frog music video if that answers that question. i didn't resize it, it has here 352x240. it was in a mpg format before i imported it.
n i don't see a bitrate here

[guns1inger]

Your source video is small, over compressed, and crap. It is VCD resolution, which is also acceptable at the very low end for DVD resolution, however you cannot author 16:9 widescreen correctly with less than full D1.

So what you have is rubbish, blown up on your screen to be rubbish, just bigger. You can't fix it. The only advice I can offer you to fix this is to throw away the clip you have, and get a better, bigger source. Or live with it.

[wan2no]

so how big is big. what is the ideal size

[guns1inger]

NTSC 720 x 480. PAL 720 x 576

See What is DVD - top left corner menu

But resolution is only part of it. If the source is over compressed it will look pixellated, even if it is higher resolution.