VCD Sample has blurry action frames

[sheldonKJ]

I downloaded the Sample VCD from this site (Flying around the Snow-covered Mountain). Upon inspection, all the moving scenes have what looks like two successive frames morphed into one. It's as if it was captured without de-interlacing and then just blended or smoothed. I then bought a vcd of a movie (XXX) on EBAY and noticed the same "double exposures" on the scenes with fast motion. Is this an error in the encoding, or should I expect this from all VCD's?
Perhaps I just don't understand the mechanics of what is happening here. Please Advise...
Thanks...

[unclebud]

VCD's are at best about VHS quality and that's when there's little or no motion. High motion scenes look terrible no matter how good the encoder is.
Non-compliant VCD's using VBR will yield better motion scenes but with low resolution it will still not look as good as a DVD.

[EddyH]

Odd, maybe just bad encodes, or perhaps your hardware is playing up and not putting the frames in the right order, especially with the SVCD.. are you viewing on the PC or a TV?

[sheldonKJ]

Both TV via the DVD player for VCD, and I ripped them to MPEG1 and they looked the same.

Kevin