Pixel (video) problem with my VCDs...what's up?

[dolphinboy]

I posted here a few times about 2 weeks ago when I was just making my first vcds. I really do it for fun only and don't need awesome video or anything like that. Nonetheless, I would like to be able to do things as best as I can.

I was practicing with music videos, downloading them, then encoding with tmpgenc, and the burning with nero. After some help from the good folks here I was able to get things to work well and my audio and video were fine.

Anyway, I got a new computer last Monday and it took awhile to configure things and be ready to try again. I downloaded about 17 videos and 2 clips from SNL and planned to put them all on one CD-RW.

I went through all the steps, but 90 percent of the videos have problems with the video. I have a hard time trying to explain it. When I play it back, it looks, at times, like what you see when you're seeing through the eyes of the Terminator in the movies. The video gets blotchy, you can see the blocks (rectangles shapes) that make up the video. Another example that I can try to give is that when you are watching some clip, say on real player, and then you click to make it full screen, it gets less focused and clear.

This is what's happening. It's not a problem all through the videos (sometimes it's clear and then it's not) and some are worse than others throughout. It never is so bad that you can't watch at all. I think I would have just assumed this was about right for what I'm really doing, except that on the other computer I had practiced with some of the same videos and they were pretty darn close to just as you might catch them on tv. For example, I have the new Madonna video and it clearly is NOT as good as it was before and I know it's the same copy that I downloaded.

I followed all of the same steps and only 1 video is just like "from the tv" quality. A couple others are close and the rest display this video problem on and off during their playing time. A couple of them even have slight audio and video sync problems also, which weren't happening to me before after I followed the advice of a few members here. I know the sources are probably somewhat to blame, but it sure seems like something isn't working right and I don't know what it could be.

As I wrote, I'm following the same exact steps and it's coming out in a fashion that is kind of frustrating to me. Could anyone who might have some ideas of what this is that I'm experiencing and some ways to go about working out the problems, please post here and let me know what steps I can set out upon to make the video better?

Thanks a lot!

[dolphinboy]

Where is O Kewl when you need him?

[dolphinboy]

Basically, is there someone here who can tell me of a program or software that can be used to sharpen up the quality of video? Something that will just run through the video, on its own, and sharpen the quality. Is there anything like that specifically? I'm just using mpeg1 and some of the video is jumbled up others are very good. Can I use something on the ones that aren't good to maybe make them more watchable?

Thanks