VCD slideshow with music track

[rdfarr]

I can create some good AVI or windows video slideshows with my jpg files in a slidewhow with a music background. However, when I cut a VCD of the files the PQ of the video goes from good to poor (using Nero or Adobe Album). If I just use Nero to cut a simple VCD slideshow without audio, the good PQ is retained. What is the best way to get a good PQ VCD slideshow with music?

[Cornucopia]

Option-

1--Make an XVCD, where movie resolution is 704x480, just like stills, instead of usual 352x240. This will work if your player supports it.

2--Use Mikk's guide to create a still with audio, and segment your audio (probably not what you want, though)

3--Make a miniDVD, if your player supports it.

4--Make an SVCD if your player supports it. It won't be all the way up to 704x480 (or DVD/miniDVD's 720x480), but at least it'll be 480x480 which is much better than 352x240.

I'm sure there might be a few other possibilities...

HTH,
Scott

[hech54]

I use Slide Show Movie Maker for my VCD/pic CD's. Great free program.

[rdfarr]

Scott: I''m not sure my DVD player (Pioneer DV-363) will do XVCDs or SVCDs. I'll try the XVCD route first. I'm well familiar with AVI-VCD conversions using TmpGen and Nero, but haven't done any XVCDs. Found instructions on this site. Seems to be no prob. Don't have a DVD burner.

Hech: I already used SSMM in one of my test iterations and got the crummy video PQ previously reported. (Maybe I didn't set the right parameters, or maybe that is the typical product. Dunno.)

Thanks for the suggestions.

[hech54]

The quality of the pics on SS Movie Maker is pretty good to me. Maybe you are just a bit more quality oriented than me...
I am doing striclty pics with background music though.

[rdfarr]

Following the above suggestions, I find that I can burn a good XVCD, using Nero, from an AVI file created by SSMM and converted to mpeg via TmpGenc. I can now get acceptable PQ. I'm going to go back now and see if I can burn a SVCD using the same programs. I'm now confident of success, having found that my DVD player seems to play that (unadvertised) format.

Thanks for all the help.