Poor quality VCD to SVCD

[wrenchtwister]

I hadan old Apex player that finally bit the dust,and I bought a new one.The problem is the old one played VCD this only plays SVCD,so I am currently reencoding the videos.

I am using TMPGEnc Plus to encode them,but the quality is poor,and dark,and the color seems not so good.I thought the quality should be somewhere approx. the same as the original file.Am I wrong on this?Do they lose quality going from MPEG1 to MPEG2?

Thanx

[adam]

Anytime you re-encode you are going to lose quality. Since you are increasing your resolution, you are going to lose quite a bit.

As for your colors, try enabling the "output YUV data as..." option on the Quantize Matrix tab. This should help some.

[wrenchtwister]

Thanx adam, I will give that a try.