Difference in home made VCDs

[woodie]

Anyone explain this. The quality of my old Toshiba DVD player appears to be deteriorating more so with home made VCDs. I decided to invest in a new one a Panasonic which claimed to support everything. I tried things in order. Commercial DVDs plaayed fine as did some home made VCDs ripped from DVDs. MP3s play great. Here's the problem. I have made 3 VCDs from home made movies from various vacations. They all played equally well and then equally got worse on my old Toshiba. Now one of them seems fine on the new player but the most recent two are terrible (worse than the old player). The only difference between them was that I used TMPEnc to convert the first one and let Ulead Video Studio render the MPEG for the last two crappy ones. Nero was used to burn all of the MPEGs to CDRs. Is my problem that Ulead is worse at making MPEGs which is being reflected more in my new DVD player. Am I going to have to redo the last two vacations from scratch and not use Ulead to render? Anyone else have a problem with different DVD palyers like this?

[wulf109]

TMPEG is without doubt a better mpeg encoder than Ulead. Re-encode with TMPEG. Variation in the playback of the same disk on different players is perfectly normal.

[gmatov]

I have made 3 VCDs from home made movies from various vacations. They all played equally well and then equally got worse on my old Toshiba. Now one of them seems fine on the new player but the most recent two are terrible (worse than the old player).

If you are actually saying (It seems so ) that they played well then one played well and the other 2 didn't on the new one it does not seem to be the encoder. Possibly poor media. Are they of different brands?

Most media is garbage (what can you ask for 20¢ )Try archiving to your HD if you have the room and when they go bad, burn a new one.

I have all my encodes still on my drives, as well as all my VOBs, but since I have all the DVDs also, am gonna have to delete some of them. Even damn near a terabyte gets ate up with this stuff.

Cheers,

George