Playing VCDs

[BenzBen]

Hello,

I recently made two VCDs, Bring it On, and Swordfish.

Swordfish looks ok on my computer, but Bring it On look a lot worse. I haven't gotten a chance to play it on my TV yet, but I was wondering if it would look about the same or better on a TV as apposed to a computer.

The sound is also low, how can i fix that?

[agzz]

the picture will be a little softer on TV.

[Crazy_Mck]

Monitors are higher res then tvs -- tvs thus will make a low res vid look better. I just noticed this on a home vid I convertered. Looks fuzzy on monitor full screen but tv looks just fine.

Patrick

[bewley]

I too just made an SVCD (1/2 DVD 352x480) out of "Bring It On"...

For the most part the quality is very good, but there is a lot of action in some of the scenes that just turn out blocky as hell -- even though I was using a bit rate around 1900 kbit VBR -- especially in the very beginning and the final competition (audience shots are horrible).

What bit rate did you use?

Thanks,

[BenzBen]

I think i used 1150 kbps, VCD. I think I may try 2500 kbps or even higher, XVCD.

[poopyhead]

i use CQ_VBR in tmpgenc max bitrate 2520 CQ=70, bring it on fit on 3 CDs...which may be a little bit more CDs than you would like..but quality is great...

also since most people sit further away from the TV than the monitor, you won't notice the blockiness when watching TV as opposed to monitor

[bewley]

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i use CQ_VBR in tmpgenc max bitrate 2520 CQ=70, bring it on fit on 3 CDs...which may be a little bit more CDs than you would like..but quality is great...

also since most people sit further away from the TV than the monitor, you won't notice the blockiness when watching TV as opposed to monitor
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Yes, I went with 2 x CD-R for this one...

My question, do you get any blockiness during the last competition (outside) when the camera quickly flashes to the cheering crowd? That's alot of information to encode! At 1900 kbit VBR (300 min / 2600 max) it is quite noticable -- and rather offensive (but at least quick)!

[poopyhead]

first off...wut is your CQ (if your using CQ_VBR)?

that makes a big difference, i.e. if u use CQ=100, then it's basically your you're using CBR at your max bitrate

second, in video tab, wut did you set for motion search accuracy...make sure u set it to high (slow)..that could be wut's causing your blockiness

btw...i said i used 3 discs for Bring it on...not 2 cuz i used a higher avg. bitrate of 2200

[BenzBen]

OK

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