Pixelated movie

[Free4U]

First of all I like to thank ChrissyBoy and Gurn for all the help I recieved.

I am having a diffrent issue now, When I play the movie my stand alone dvd player I see the movie playing and the sound perfectly in sync, but throughout the screen the movie is pixelated(On my PC the picture looks perfect). What can I do to fix this?

[Wraith]

I used to have a similar problem when burning images to cdr. I think what causes that is a bad pack of the bin/cue files. If you extract the mpegs first with vcdgear or isobuster and use svcd2dvdmpg on the extracted files instead it should fix the pixelation. Hope this helps.

[Gurm]

It really depends. Burn the VCD and see if that's pixellated.

Some players just suck at playing back VCD, that's all. My Pioneer is one of 'em. SVCD looks gorgeous, but VCD looks like poop.

It's just got a lousy MPG-1 decoder onboard - a lot of players do.

The PS2's is even worse - I get all kinds of dropped pixels and everything.

In contrast, the PC's MPG-1 filter is as close to perfect as you can get nowadays.

- Gurm

[ChrissyBoy]

MPEG-1 content (i.e VCDs) are "pixelated" on PS-2's. MPEG-2(i.e SVCDs) are great.

As Gurm says some other players will choke at MPEG1 content as - whilst it is compliant with the DVD specs - is not common in commercial DVDs....

So is your issue due to VCD/MPEG1 content?

[Gurm]

CB,

I thought that low-res DVD was still MPG-2?

I was under the impression that manufacturers were just skimping on MPG-1 support?

- Gurm

[ChrissyBoy]

From DVDDemystified DVD FAQ

[3.4] What are the video details?
DVD-Video is an application of DVD-ROM, according to the specification created by the DVD Forum (see 6.1). DVD-Video is also an application of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Dolby Digital, DTS, and other formats. This means the DVD-Video format defines subsets of these standards and formats to be applied in practice to make discs intended for DVD-Video players. DVD-ROM can contain any desired digital information, but DVD-Video is limited to certain data types designed for television reproduction.

A disc has one track (stream) of MPEG-2 constant bit rate (CBR) or variable bit rate (VBR) compressed digital video. A restricted version of MPEG-2 Main Profile at Main Level (MP@ML) is used. SP@ML is also supported. MPEG-1 CBR and VBR video is also allowed.

[Gurm]

Ok cool.

But at any rate, the practical upshot is that MPG1 encoded files play like poop on some standalone players... whereas in Windows it's pretty much wrapped up, and has been for several years.

- Gurm

[ChrissyBoy]

Again:

True...

In reply to the msgs in this thread about windows mpg decoder being close to perfect, My DVD to VCD rips have dropped pixels and the image looks sluggish around the edges of moving imagery (like a hand waving, etc).

It is crap on standalone DVD players and in windows. It really looks like i fucked a setting in DVD2AVI when ripping, because i am leaning towards the impression it is an aspect ratio issue.

ANy ideas?

Thanks

Paul

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