VCD Poor quality?!

[Sam_41]

o.k have got a fair few movies now.... and i have tried to avoid CAMs etc. I have now only downloaded dvd-rips, which when played on my pc are excellent quality.
I have one already in .mpg format, and a couple in different formats so i encoded them to vcd format using TMPGEnc. I then put all the movies onto disc using VCDeasy and when played on my NAPA DAV 311 the quality was very poor. They all work fine on my pc.
When played through my NAPA, it is a blocky picture, and often jumpy. I guess this means i am either burning incorrectly (I use VCDeasy) or there is a problem with my NAPA.

Any help would be greatly appreciatted. Thanks,

Sam

[pacmania_2001]

I have heard bad things about the NAPA players so that is probably the cause of it. Try them on another player to see. Also try them out on your pc once you have encoded them to VCD. If it is still bad quality I would recommend checking your encoding settings or if you are still unhappy with the VCD format overall perhaps you should try making XVCD's or SVCD's.

[Sam_41]

thanks for the quick reply. The vcds work very well on my pc, excellent quality. I fear that it is the NAPA DAV 311 player then. Thanks anyway. Btw, in the review of the NAPA on this site, someone said something about twaeking the format a bit to remove all skipping. http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=564&Search=Search&#comments
and it is the 4th comment down. Any help on this? Cheers,
Sam

[vcdxandy]

I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM !!!

In latest TTMPEG I loaded standard VCD-PAL template, changed bitrate to 1123 as reccomended. Source was MPEG4-AVI video (28 days)
Then burned with Nero and Memorex24Maxx on Precision CDR (24x). But unfortunately playback on NAPA DAV 311 was very very jerky even if colors and sharpnes was excellent !!!
Than today I found an excelent link with guide and TTMPEG templates for NAPA-VCD here and I am going to use this one:

http://www25.brinkster.com/fletchlinks/napa311/

does anyone have good experience with those templates ?
Do templates for "older" TTMPEG version generally work fine with new versions or must I use the "same" version of TTMPEG for which one was the template made???

Are TTMPEG versions for VCD (better DivX to VCD conversion) generally very different in performance/quality or can I use ANY TTMPEG version without reasonable performance differencies???