picture is pixilated

[ratz]

i finnally burned my first vcd an it works in a dvd player and it worked... im soooooo excited... the only problem is is that the picture was a lill pixilated... the specifications are

video 325x240, ntsc (525) 1.15 m bit/second

this is on the ati all in 1 wonder if i have to be specific... but i played it on a regular tv screen and the picture was pixilated... so dont i have to make that 325x240 a little bigger...
can any one suggest somethingspecific for a tv screen size ...
thanx

ratz

[gll99]

You meant 352x240 right?? Bigger is not necessarily better?

Is the input pixilated. What is the source of the video. TV capture, DVD, VHS?

What res is your TV-out.

[ratz]

the original is all perfect... its off tv, vhs... and i use my computer as a screen... i enlarge it to fit the screen and its still good quality

[gll99]

When you say you played it on a DVD player you meant on the computer right? I guess you don't have a standalone DVD player to play the vcd on.

Its hard to guess when you view it through a TV-out.

I have one wmf file that I capped from tv and it looks great on my monitor in full screen but when output to my TV-out with 800x600 res it looks like everyone is wearing a pancake makeup like OTTO on deep space 9.

How does the VCD look on the monitor?

Anyway I can't speak for others but I don't think that the general target audience for vcd is mainly to view through a tv-out card or a monitor but rather a standalone DVD player.

I'm not saying not to do it but you will experience problems or see effects which may be caused by the signal degradation going through your TV out card and it will be impossible for anyone else to be sure if its that or something in the encode process.

I use the look on a standalone DVD player as a point of reference for quality issues when discussing (s)vcd quality.

[ratz]

no i did try it on a stand alone dvd player... it looks amazing on my computer but pixilated on the stand alone... i dunno...

[Anonymous65]

You are most likely watching the VCD in a small postage stamp window (and not full screen) on your PC, and it looks fine? When you blow it up on a 22 or 27 inch TV set, you see at lot more details, and all the small pixels you don't see on a PC monitor. Unless there is something wrong with your DVD player, the VCD full screen on your PC should look more or less the same as on a 20 inch TV set from your DVD player.

[Mavrick]

I’m not an expert at this. I can tell you some of the things that I have learned and save me time. I make XSVCD’s only, as I’m converting home videos to CD. I have managed over time to get it down to 4 easy steps.


Step 1: Capture the video as uncompressed AVI (this gives you the best quality to work with) as close to the final output resolution as you can. This will save encoding time if it does not have to resize it. In my case 480x480 or 640x480

Step 2: Edit the captured video. I use Media Studio Pro 6.5DC for this.

Step 3: Save the edited video in Media Studio as an MPEG2 480x480 with a VBR of 4000. Field order B first. (make sure your player can play this).

Step 4: Burn the MPEG file(s) to CD with DVD Movie Factory. Make your menus etc…

That’s it!!

You can download a trial copy of Media Studio Pro from
http://www.ulead.com/msp/runme.htm

They also offer upgrade offers from other editing software – so you can get it as cheep as $129.00 for the DC version.

Works every time and I get video as good as the original… I would say its DVD quality. The down side is I can only get 20-30min per CD with a bit rate that high… but with this quality, I’ll take it!