Divx - Mpeg1(VCD) viewing on dreamcast

[Stehaz]

Hi All, I am new here and have got a couple of questions. I have converted a Divx movie (300 megs approx) to Mpeg1 (800 megs approx). I then cut it in two with TMPGEnc and burned it to disc. I will be viewing this on a Dreamcast (i have to original on VCD but that player broke and i heard you can play VCDs on a dreamcast so i tried to convert it for that). The problem is the picture is very bad. I was not expecting a great picture but this is very bad. Does anyone know of a way of getting a better picture. Could this have anything to do with the framerate of the Divx movie. Any help would be very much appreciated.

[klay51]

Dreamcast sucks at playing VCDs BUT it is ok at playing just a straight up MPEG-1. boob.co.uk goto user files and get GypPlay. Follow instructions on there but basically u burn the gypplay files along with mpeg-1 or avi(no divx or odd codec) and ur done. but follow instructions on site not from me

[mmmodem]

From my experience, gyplay is not very optimized to play VCDs on the dreamcast. Some of my conversions would work and some would be jerky. They recommend using a VBR rate of 800k-900k. But at this rate, video quality is barely acceptable.