Want no blocks in your vids, READ THIS!!

[sean madison]

I have been attempting to find ways just like you to make a vcd no matter how long it is with no blocks. I cam eacross something i did that eliminates ALL blocks whether endoed in low quality or fast motion scenes.

DISADVANTAGE- it's not on cd.

---- After burning it to a cd, i recorded it to a tape for my friend and when played back on a vcr, has NO BLOCKS!! I dont no why but if someone knows why, lighten that part up for me.

Just cuz i have found this does not mean i will stop trying. That just eliminates blocks on a tape. My goal is on a cd.

[vitualis]

I would presume that he blocks are gone simply because VHS or your VCR system simply doesn't have the video resolution... That is, the video image from the original VCD is smeared and softened.

The loss of the blocks is a sign of loss of sharpness and thus quality.

Regards.

[Stinky]

On my machine the best output I can do to my VCR is 800x600 and that softens the blocks - but they are still there - plus the VCR resolution is less than that I believe

for me once I moved from a cheap DVD player (Raite 770) to a bit more expensive one (Pioneer DV-434) all my disks looked better - the better the processor in the DVD player the less blocks. Even source with blocks gets smooted out on my Pioneer.

[KillerSoundz]

most tv's only have a resolution of 480x480 i believe so thats why if u use tv out ur crap don't look that good as on ur puter monitor, but if somehow u got ur video card to go at 480x480 resolution it would look fine on the tv but everything would be huge lol

[Blacklotus]

I have recently had some good block removal by setting block softening in tmpgenc to 35 35 and then using the sharpen filter to about 45 horz/vert makes a good vcd with little blocks that isnt too soft.

[Chopper Face]

I always thought TVs were 352x240, hence the VCD standard.

[AT]

Normal TV, if it's not a High definition TV set, will give barely over 300 of horizontal resulution. But a normal TV has the capacity to display over 400 of vertical resolution. Then again, VHS VCR will yeild about 200 of vertical resolution.

[Betamax]

TV's actually are the same size as like DVD : 720x576 for PAL/SECAM and 720x480 for NTSC.
That's also why DVD has such a good quality onto TV's : no resizing.

SVCD's size is 480x576 with PAL/SECAM and 480x480 with NTSC (so resizing toward TV = lost of quality).
VCD's size is 352x288 for PAL/SECAM and 352x240 for NTSC : half of SVCD = even more lost of quality.

[Ton]

The VCD resolution of 352x240 was probably a comprimise to be equal to VHS which is 240 lines of resolution while keeping file size down.
480i is max for NTSC televisions.
Newer digital televisions can be 480i,480p,720i,720p or 1080i
1080p is also allowed, but have never heard of a set that supports that yet.

Horiz. Lines of Resolution
VHS 240
VCD 240
BetaMax 250
Video-8 280
SuperBeta 290-330
SVHS 400
LaserDisk 425
Hi-8 440
Digital-8 480 (Digital Format)
MiniDV 480 (Digital Format)
SVCD 480(576 PAL) (Digital Format)
DVD 480(576 PAL) (Digital Format)
ED Beta 500