How to reduce the halo/blocky effect on karaoke text?

[kenneth11z]

Hi,

I'm helping a friend to backup a copy of his DVD Karaoke to a VCD Karaoke. This is my first time doing a DVD Karaoke back and notice there is lots of halo or blocky or haze effect around the karaoke text. The karaoke text is not subtitle but part of the video itself. I have tried both using the CCE demo and TMPGenc. I tried all kinds of settings and searching through forums and guides for the past week already. But still no such luck. Is this normal to have halo/blocky effect around the karaoke text if using VCD? Is there anyway I can minimize or reduce the blocky effect on the text? Any suggestions would be very appreciated. Thanks.

-Kenneth

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With CCE set quality to 3, multipass to 4

With Tmpge set res to (PAL 352x576 / NTSC 352X480)
Use a CQ setting of 95-100, activate "no motion search for still picture by half pixel"

[kenneth11z]

Using this setting below for either CCE or TMPGenc will create a non-standard VCD right? I need to create a standard VCD and at the same time try to reduce those blocky karaoke text.

-Kenneth

With CCE set quality to 3, multipass to 4

With Tmpge set res to (PAL 352x576 / NTSC 352X480)
Use a CQ setting of 95-100, activate "no motion search for still picture by half pixel"

[offline]

unfortunately the standard does exactly what you don't want.
I guess you could stay within the standard with tmpge and try selecting CG/ANIMATION under quantize matrix and Soften block noise.
This may help. Also look at better ways of transfering the DVD
movie to vcd (aka Avisynth & bicubic resize)