VCD's on DVD Quality Question

[Kool_Aid]

Lately, I have been using "Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2" to convert 2 VCD's and burn them to a single DVD.

Problem is my TV is a 65" Widescreen HDTV, and the quality of these converts is terrible.

I've tried the fast way........... leaving the complient video alone, and just converting the audio, and also tried the longer way of converting the audio and the video to the largest bitrate video that will fit on the DVD, and still none of them look very good.

Is this a lost cause?

Is there any program that will make a VCD look good, by converting it to something else, or is it just too small to begin with?

[txpharoah]

Don't convert. Rip the VCD MPEG1 files with an ISO program and then dump to a MPEG1-based DVD with a true authoring application like DVDlab, DVDit! or several others. All you must do is change audio from 44hz to 48hz and convert to WAV or AC3. Re-encoding will loose more quality. I think a guide on the left covers this.

<--------------------------- OVER THERE