tv picture quality poor using vcd

[vcdblues]

My goal is to create a vcd to use on my dvd player that can display a descent picture. I first purchased "Dazzle video creator 80", and I captured video from my 6 year old vhs-c camcorder. I had no problems creating the vcd. I used MGI Videowave 4 at first, and I also tried TMPGenc 2.0 to make the vcd. It plays on the computer dvd (the picture looks fine, but the copamered to the tv the screen is much smaller), but when I play it on the home dvd the picture quality is very poor. Its like it is stretched out. I captured from the vhs-c camcorder at 350 x 240, which gave me a avi file. I then tried MGI Videowave 4 and TMPGenc, and both gave poor picture quality. Any help would be appreciated.

[dellison]

I am having the same problem.

I have no idea what it is.

Please help!

Info: Captured to 352 x 240 MJPEG
Converted to MPEG-1 for VCD using template through TMPEnc 2.0
Burned using EZCD Creator (no problems) onto CD-r and CD-RW (to see if the CDR media was making the difference, it wasn't)

[Anonymous65]

Do you know how good a VCD can look like? First, download some high quality VCD files so you have a realistic goal. Also, all the good VCD files will be records from a DVD player, not a VHS player. So, the quality will be less from VHS. If your quality is much less then the ones you have downloaded, you can look at things to improve the quality. If you think the test VCD clips look bad, then don't bother with VCD, but go to DVD (or SVCD, XVCD or other formats).