Newbie question. bad quality after burning a Svcd

[TOURDEFRANCE101]

OK, I will try and be clear, I got me Sony DCRDVD703, and I find the std software that it came with is fine to edit with and (capture), is that the right word, or put on my hard drive. Now that puts all the files on my computer as .mpeg files. Then I jump into Nero 6 and create a video CD or SVCD (I dont know what the diff is but SVCD works fine). Then to my surprise I burn to a cd not a DVD. Now all this is pretty easy but when I play it back on my dvd player, and more to the point my 106cm Plasma, I am finding that the quality is crap. It looks very pixilated. Its still ok but nothing like watching the disk straight from the camera.
My question is, is this normal (I doubt) and what should I do to make it better? Is this why so many people are asking how to burn to DVD's?

PLEASE HELP

STEPHEN

[aedipuss]

ok i'm not familiar with that exect model, but it appears to be a fairly nice austrialian one that records direct to dvd. can you just play the dvds it makes in a standalone? if not take the vobs from it's dvds and use vob2mpg to return them to mpeg2. from there use an authoring program to make a titleset with or without menus. the last step would be a burning program like prassi ones to burn the titleset to dvdr.

don't recode to svcd. keep it as dvd.

[mats.hogberg]

...and if you really want SVCD, don't involve Nero in that process - reencode with a real mpeg encoder (like TMPGEnc) to SVCD specs mpg, author and burn with VCDEasy.

/Mats

[Abond]

Don't know where come your surprise from as SVCD is CD.

[jman98]

The links to the left (look for "What Is" at the top left) will tell you what VCD and SVCD are. SVCD is a format that allows for higher bitrates (and quality) than VCD with the catch that you sacrifice playing time to get it. VCD/SVCD are meant to be on CD discs, not DVD.

Nero is a very bad encoder. Better choices are TMPGenc or CCE. I have seen CCE do some remarkable work encoding DVD to SVCD.

[TOURDEFRANCE101]

OK Guys, so whats the diff. between VCD/SVCD and burning straight to DVD? Quality?

[ZippyP.]

OK Guys, so whats the diff. between VCD/SVCD and burning straight to DVD? Quality?

Yes. It's all in the resolution and you can find out all about them by clicking the "what is" sections on the top left of this page.

[whitejremiah]

just thought i'd throw my two cents in here too...if you dont wanna buy a program, quenc does a fairly nice job too...for the price it costs...that being absolutely free it may require some more work though, if your not using .avi files...you may have to search on how to make an .avs script to load your file...that's really not that difficult though.....

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, quenc is a really good alternative to the commercial offerings.

/Mats

[TOURDEFRANCE101]

Can I use Nero to capture straight from my cemera instead of using the Sony software. As the Sony software only dumps .mpeg files on my hard drive. My plan is to use Nero to "burn a dvd" but when I do that it is looking for a "VIDEO_TS" folder.

[mats.hogberg]

Why Nero of all applications? It's an application for burning CD/DVD. Its video capabilities are questionable, at best.
mpeg files dumped on your hard drive is the best you can have - Hopefully they are DVD compliant, and ready to be authored with TMPGEnc DVD Author, or other authoring app.

/Mats