avi video good -> mpg good .. watch on tv = blocky .. why?

[BenB]

When I convert my avi's to mpg, for vcd, and watch them on my TV, they are blocky, why? They look good on my computer, when played at the video screen size...is it because the tv blows up the image? how so, if its 320x240? Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or with VCD, the quality isn't that great to begin with.

[BenB]

btw, I'm converting at 1150, 320x240, 25fps.

[y2flyy]

thats a good question ben i hope someone answers that
one
b/c it happens to me too
even when i higher the bitrate and even convert to mpeg2 it looks bad when i play it on my apex or parasonic i dont understand
ive tried everything
help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chano]

1150, 320x240 25fps is not VCD!

1150, 352x288 25fps or 1150, 352x240 29.97

[BenB]

My mistake..

I meant 1150, 352x240 25fps .. it works..But maybe it should be 352x288 ..would that fix my blockiness? And at 29.97fps?

[kinneera]

The only thing I can think of is that the MPEG1 decoding capability of your standalone DVD player is poor quality.

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[BenB]

I have the Samsung DVD-100 or 1000...Any problems with that one? it its a dvd, vcr combo.

Well, I have a panasonic 5 disc, but it doesn't play cdrs, so it wont read my vcds...

[kinneera]

Hmmm, yeah, I didn't read it too closely the first time. If you are encoding at 25fps (PAL), your res. should be 352x288, otherwise it is nonstandard, and will probably confuse even DVD players that play XVCD.

[Cdub||]

no no no ANTSC vcd is 1150 352X240 29.97 and pal is 352X288

if you live in america you will want to encode with the ntsc vcd format because Pal is for tv almost all over the world except america which is NTSC


But I think that other 24 or what ever frame your talking about is ntsc film but that is almost never used I have an Apex 1500 hacked you know about hacked right ????? and it plays all my movies fine