VCD Help

[Fashiondon2]

I have a question about VCD recording. I have succesfully coverted a AVI to a VCD to play on a standard DVD/VCD player. The problem is that the VIDEO quality is very poor. I am uising VIrtual Dub V1.49 and added 2:1 reduction (high quality filter) and DIVX 5.0 for video/compression and 1150Kbps. Also full processing mode on Audio and 44100Hz conversion/sample rate. I am using TMPGE for encoding. I opened the AVI inforamtion for fps and it was 11.988 so I selcted the standard NTSC. The last step I used CDRWIN 5.0 to burn to a 80min/800 MB cd. Thank you for your time in advance and I appreciate any suggestions you have.

[weeyoo]

Up your birate on the encoding to above 1500, if your player will play it ok, or start working with mpeg2 (svcd). This may mean that you will have to slip your file to 2 disks, but it will greatly increase the quality.

[Craig Tucker]

It sounds like your source avi file is poor quality, so not a lot you can do about it really, upping the bitrate won't help. Garbage in = Garbage out.

Craig

[tohot4every18024]

i have no idea why every forum you go to they say the same thing trash in trash out by what i understand when people need help converting some people know more then other and when you first start out you know your going to go through rough drafts and it comes out looking like garbage especially as far as vcd goes but you play with the settings and then you start to gain experience ...practice might not make perfect but anything close will make me happy lol....no i hate when people say that the avi files you get from some sources r mainly good files besides the dark ones but most of them r good files and with the right settings they can come out looking pretty good ...sorry but just try different things..

[Craig Tucker]

People say garbage in garbage out, because it is a fact. There is very little you can do to greatly improve a poor quality source. Fashiondon2 states that the framerate is 11.988, so for NTSC he has already lost 60% of the information. Once its gone its gone you cant wave a magic wand and get it back. Then if you have noise on the source you can try and soften it, but this has the effect of blurring the image. There is always a trade off if you apply a filter, what you gain in one area you loose in another. Couple to this the fact that each time you encode there is going to be a degredation in quality. So if you hav'nt got a good quality source, don't expect a good quality VCD.

Craig