Help! VCD looks ok on computer but crappy on TV

[ecallen]

Hi,

I am using smartripper then DVD2AVI and then TMPGEnc to rip and encode DVDs. I am following the instructions in the newbie guide on this site and am having trouble playing VCDs in my home dvd player (AD-500A) the vcd plays but looks like crap. I don't know where to begin to find the problem. I have tried various configs in TMPGEnc. Also, I have an AMD Athalon 900 and 256 meg of ram.

Thanks for any help!!

[juice]

Try this
I finally found the best possible way to make a VCD from DVD.
After 2 years of making them I discovered that a combination of the right settings using DVD2AVI and TMPEGenc.

Use the following.
I use cladDVD 1.70 to rip the movie files only from the DVD.
Then I open DVD2AVI and use the following settings
Video: iDCT Algorithm - IEEE-1180 reference
Field Operation - Forced Film
Color Space - YUV
YUV > RGB - TV Scale

Audio: Track Number - 1
Channel Format - Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital - Decode

Then save project.

Open up project .dv file with TMPEGenc.
Video Setting
Stream Type- MPG1
Size 352 x 240
Aspect Ratio - 4.3 525 line NTSC
Frame Rate 29.97
Rate control mode - Automatic
Motion Search Procision - Highest Quality

ADVANCED tab
Video Source Type - Non-Interlace
Field order - Bottom field first
Source Aspect Ratio - 16:9 for wide screen / 4:3 for full screen
Video Arrange method - No Margin (Keep Aspect)

QUARTIERIZE MATRIX tab
Put checks in the
Output YUV data
Use floating point DCT

No hit the ENCODE Button


I use a VBR at 29.97 NTSC 16:9 Aspect and it comes out
perfect.