Bringing an avi in vdub, the source window picture quality is very poor, but the avi is perfect.
The output window looks the same, as does the resulting mpeg.

what i mean by very poor is it looks like a 32 bit picture displayed on a 16 bit display.

what's puzzling is that if it's just display why does the resulting mpeg look like it.

if i do a direct stream copy, the created avi is fine, but if i do a resize, it looks blotchy.

would it help to up a before and after still to demonstrate?

my monitor display depth is 32 bit. AIW Radeon 32 WIn2k