How do i burn a really good VCD???????????

[Xtreme]

I have taken alot of time trying to burn a good VCD but i am getting really shitty quality of VCD's. How do i improve this quality? I have read most of this URL's helpful hints, but i am wasting valuable time trying to make a good VCD. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know you guys know what your doing i can tell by most of your messages you post. So your expertise on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Someonme help me fast.
Thanks

[incognito]

VCD's of what? That is, what source are you using?
Captured video? DVD? That answer will make a difference,
because the quality of your vcd will vary with the quality
of your source.

Quick thoughts come to mind:

-- interlaced, or poorly de-interlaced source will result in
"tearing" in the VCD-- especially in high-motion scenes.
-- Sefy's templates, and the howto files on this site
are quite good.

-- try a 3-5 minute clip, encode in a bunch of different
ways, and burn them to a cdrw. Then play them to see
the quality of each.

[Psycho_Dad_Rules]

Well,

Since most of the people who have read the documentation available here are pretty okay with the quality they get, i wonder, it could also be the device you use to play the vcd's on.
Do you play them on a regular PC or on a standalone VCD/DVD player ?

Greetz,

pSyChO dAd

[Xtreme]

Well i am ripping them with DVD player on my PC, and playing them on my Sony DVD player. Also if i download a mpg from a friend then i want to make the best out of my video. My DVD player will only play VCD's and XVCD's.

[incognito]

I'd read the Howto sectioms on this site, or on digital
digest.

Personally, I mostly use flask and bbmpeg to make vcd's,
although recently I've been playing around with frame-
serving to tmpg to do the mpeg1 encoding.

There are two settings that seem to have a big impact:
motion search percision and de-interlacing.

On the default threshold for de-interlacing in flask, I
got a ton of horizontal lines in my vcd's. This got fixed
when I lowered the threshold to the 3-4 range.

Motion search percision is easy to fiddle with in tmpg,
just pick high, or highest quality. In bbmpeg, there are
a bunch of advanced options you have to fiddle with to
get good results.

[spidey]

Easy, use TMPG to encode and not Flask. If the settings are complex and are F'ing it up, use TMPG. You'll get better quality over Flask as well.