Quality

[lbrothe]

I have just downloaded my first ever movie a VCD.
Had a bin/cue file which i opened just fine
I used Nero to burn the VCD

I tried to watch the movie on my Pioneer DV343
The picture quality was very bad, unwatchable.

What am i doing wrong?

[dazsafc]

Did the downlaoded AVI look crisp and clear when yer played that. Did yer use Tmpgenc to encode. The Film may have been a NTSC format instead of Pal. Had yer checked for that. Even media can also have an effect.

[Craig Tucker]

From what Ibrothe is saying the film is already in VCD format in the bin file, so no encoding is necessary. Sounds like It is just a bad quality encode, not much you can do about that. Try extracting the file to your hard drive and see how it plays.

Craig

[lbrothe]

I downloaded a bin/cue file then put it into Nero,
i assume Nero encoded it.

It looked fine when i played it on my computer using windows media player.

I have seen suggestions that I should use TMPeg to encode, but this programe wants to know an audio source and i never know what to put in!

I can never seem to find an audio file

[Nelson37]

A bin/cue file is already encoded, and laid out for CD, ready to burn.

When you played it on the Pc, did you try full-screen playback? Anything will look ok in a small window.

[Craig Tucker]

ignore this post
Craig

[lbrothe]

No, only tried it in a little window, i'll give it a go on full screen, will that prove that the quality was bad to start with?

If so are there any good quality movies in newsgroups?
I got this from alt.binaries.movies.vcd

[lbrothe]

Tried the movie on my computer in full screen and the quality although not great was good!!!!!!!!!

[apacheman]

You say the quality was bad... were you getting blocks? was the picture blurry? were the colors bleached in spots?

Like mentioned above, not a lot of quality and care is given by some of the release groups to encoding the VCDs.

-A

[lbrothe]

the picture was blurry

[Nelson37]

When you burnt in nero, roughly how long did it take? I'm wondering if you just burnt(10-20 minutes) or re-encoded (hours)? Also, check the bitrate, maybe it's too high for your DVD player, although that usually causes stutter. How big is your TV and PC monitor? Have you played it with more than one software?

On your audio question in tmpgenc, the source would be the original AVI but it usually works better if you use VirtualDub to strip audio to a WAV and then use the WAV as sound source in TMPGENC.

[lbrothe]

Thanks for your reply

when i burnt with Nero it didn't take that long, from another reply i guess it is because Bin/cue files are encoded.

what is an ideal bitrate, my TV monitor? 36 inches, pc monitor?? 19 inches!

I have tried step by step to seperate the audio but i get no audio file to save! no wav

I am trying to down load the movie again from another post, it's
Miority report-TCF Workprint from alt.binaries.vcd and i will see what the quality is like,