DVD-Lab SVCD-->DVD

[Hansomfiser]

I followed reboots guide yesterday to put a SVCD movie on a DVD through DVD-lab and his instructions. It all worked fine (I chose PAL in DVD-lab output settings since I live in Sweden), but once the video was re-encoded I found a quality loss that was like 20% or even more. With other words unacceptable. My perfect SVCD file with subtitles turned into a worse movie with the subtitles in bad sharpness too. I would say a total quality loss of 30 percent.
How should I do? I really don't want to follow the other guides on Videohelp since you need to use lots of other programs and stuff like that, using DVD-lab is so much more convenient, but I want to know what I can do in the DVD-lab settings to improve quality.

Thanks for your help

[reboot]

Dvdlab doesn't re-encode any video, so I don't see how it could wreck any quality.
What you put in, is what you get out.
Is the original SVCD in NTSC format? That would explain the problem.
What did you use to burn it with?
Edit: Going to do a test from ntsc to pal in dvdlab...brb...

[Hansomfiser]

reboot: you were right the original svcd was in ntsc...


Will there be any problem, if I just encode it in NTSC in DVD-lab and then burn it as PAL? will I still get quality loss?

[reboot]

I don't know...your player may play ntsc with no trouble, but your TV might not like it at all.
If you attempt to burn as pal in Nero, it will probably get royally messed. Nero will want to re-encode it, and if you turn off compliance, it may not be playable.
It's probably best to re-encode to pal using one of the guides here first, then use dvdlab to author.
You could test your theory on a dvdrw...

[mats.hogberg]

Will there be any problem, if I just encode it in NTSC in DVD-lab and then burn it as PAL? will I still get quality loss?

There's no such thing as "PAL burning". You author as either PAL or NTSC (in this case, you should author as NTSC as that's what the source is) and pray that your player (not much praying needed as most PAL players do) can play NTSC DVD.
And again, DVD-Lab doesn't reencode, so that can't be the source of your percieved quality loss.

/Mats

[reboot]

A note of caution. I have burned both pal and ntsc disks, and though my players (3) all play the disk, certain TV set's won't display properly if you try to change the player's output settings. Hopefully the player will simply read the disk, and convert the thing to your TV format (most do).