I play VHS/Betamax videos through my DV camera and capture using Adobe Premiere. The AVI file (Adaptec DV-codec) looks pretty much identical to the original source. When I encode with TMPGEnc(no filters and whatever the parameters are) the results are always much brighter if I watch the resulting video with Windows Media Player or my Pioneer 444 standalone DVD. It is similar as when a film is overexposed. (Surprisingly enough, if I open the MPEG2 file in TMPGEnc and look at it in a preview or filter setup window, it is ok)

Is this a result of diferent codec parameters (DV/MPEG2)? What TMPGEnc parameters could be tweaked to equalize bright levels? (MPEG quantization matrix, YUV output, register entries?)

Anyone can help?

Luis