Help! Blocky VCD video capture ATI Wonder VE

[simonko]

Please Help,

Every time I try to capture video and make a VCD it turns out very blocky.... Almost looks like things are made out of legos its that bad.
The first 5 seconds of the VCD are perfect then it turns into a blocky lego fest. Please Give Any Advice.

Im using the following:

AMD Duron 800
Asus SiS 630/730 video
ATI Wonder VE capture card
112 MB Ram
30 gig harddrive

ATI Mulitmedia Center 7.1 "Digital VCR"
DirectX 8.0 with directx 8.0 Video Capture Patch MS
Windows 98

[sayler]

This is my fourth try to post a reply. The first three didn't make it.

If the original mpg file plays OK on Windows Media Player and the VCD player displays blockyness the problem is probably in your burner hardware. The VCD standard explicitly EXCLUDES error correcting blocks to maximize the amount of video information contained on the VCD disk. So if your burner makes mistakes they will not be corrected on playback of a VCD.

Try burning the original mpg file on a DATA CD and try to play the file directly from the DATA CD using Windows Media Player. If the blockyness disappears or is much improved it is becaused the error correcting blocks on the DATA CD tracks are correcting the errors that were made during burning.

I and two of my friends had this same problem and cured it by buying new burners.

Hope this helps!!