quality?

[dfbest]

I am new to this technology and this is a very basic question but I could find no entries addressing. WHen I burn AVI/MPEG to VCD (using EZ Creator 5) and play it on DVD player (Sanyo 370) the picture quality is bad-grainy, pixellated, poor color. Is this normal? My understanding was that VCD was comparable to VHS.

[Truman]

The quality depends of course on the MPEG encoder, its settings, the quality of the source.

[oNikke]

It really does depend on your source file.

If you don't like the quality of a video that you have as a file, it's not going to look much better on a VCD. If you want better-than-VHS quality VCDs, then (generally) only convert files that play smoothly and clearly on your computer. I generally stay away from avi files altogether, because the level of compression in DIVX, which most avi files are compressed with, isn't something I want for my VCDs.

Look into SVCD as well if you want good picture quality. I've had great results with the SVCD format, noticably better than VHS and, to many, comparable to DVD (although in reality it isn't, it looks the part).

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: oNikke on 2001-08-20 15:01:21 ]</font>

[dfbest]

OK, how do I do SVCD? WHen I have loaded the template in TMPGENC, my burning program displayes error messages saying the file will not be playable in a DVD player- wrong frame rate, audio, etc.