Good pc quality, Bad on vcd player

[Nawaaz]

I am trying to convert VHS(pal movie) to VCD .For that ,I have a bt878 card.
I use iuvcr with Divx 5 compression (352*288 pal @ 25fps)and then TEMPGenc to convert to mepg1.I burn the cd with NTI CD Maker 5.
Although the mpg output is less brighter (perhaps due to compression) the quality is satisfactory when played on pc. But when I play it on a vcd player although I get the brightness back the image is dirty. I have tried to change some parameters like compression, color format without success

Please help me
Thanks Nawaaz

[vcdfreak]

Usually I view at 2x (200% zoom) on PC to predict what's going to look like on TV. TV pixels are large. Only zooming the video on the PC screens help me to judge whether it's going to be good on TV.

Playing video on PC screen always look not as bright as on TV. So you also need to imagine a much brighter(vibrant) video on TV compared to those on your PC screen unless you know how to calibrate your PC screen to look like TV (but all other things might look too washed out). Adjusting the Gamma helps but it is still not as bright as the TV. Might be due to different CRT technology. The TV somehow looks more "Florescent". The florescent phosphors used in TV might be more active. Need an expert here to clarify if this is considered not too off topic.