converting 3 hour vcd to dvd in good quality?

[nick101181]

I'm looking for the best way to encode a vcd to dvd. I know tmpgenc and all. I tried taking a wrestling vcd I think the source was cable I believe. Anyway I encoded to 352x480 mpeg2 with ac3 sound but the quality still seems a bit slighty murkyish when displayed on a tv. on the pc using windows media player for the vcd mpeg at 100% it looks damn good but when encoded to dvd and played on a 24 inch sony wega it looks pixelated like hell. I tried it on my girlfriends 13inth tv and it looks good from far away and you could barely notice pixelation from far back. I encoded it to 7000 kbps then made the dvd and used dvdshrink to shrink it to 4.3 gigs. I was wondering how come a encoded dvd from a capture or another source besides a dvdrip looks bad and pixelated on a flat screen tv but looks pretty good on a normal tv? is flat screen tv's too sensitive to macro blocks/pixels or something?also it seems the tv picks up way too much snow/interference from cable than the other tv's do but when playing back dvd's or anything it's perfect quality. I was just wondering what other methods people use for converting a vcd to dvd besides tmpgenc? does the fact that the vcd is not interlaced then when I re-encoded I didn't interlace it again have something to do with quality being the same on my sony wega as the vcd was? thanks in advance.

[ZippyP.]

Converting a VCD to DVD resolution is pointless and only results in reduced video quality. VCD video is DVD compliant, you only need to change the audio to DVD spec, then author and burn. Pick a guide.

Good luck.