VCD in Real Player vice DVD Player

[junkmail2010]

When I played a VCD-format disk in real player the resolution was great until I made it full screen. At full screen it looked very blurry and out of focus. While shopping for a DVD player I inserted the same DVD into a Panasonic player. It showed up full-screen on the TV but was blurry just like when I chose full-screen in real player. How do I 1) play the VCD in full screen on my computer and 2) have it show up sharp and in focus via a DVD player? I suspect it has something to do with how the movie was downloaded and burned. I'd like some suggestions before I burn some CDs of my own off of a friend's web site.

Thank you.

[adam]

Burning doesnt affect picture quality. It can cause artifacts if you have corrupted data due to a bad burn but blurryness is completely unrelated.

It appears the vcd you have is just poorly encoded. The source might have been low quality to begin with.

I'm confused when you say your going to download some movies off of your friends web site. It seems extremely unlikely that your friend is hosting vcd movies since each movie is going to be at least 1 gig in size. Are you maybe downloading a more compressed movie format such as nAVI or asf and converting it to vcd? If so this definitely explains the poor quality.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: adam on 2001-10-02 00:33:49 ]</font>