Backgroud video

[pelekg01]

When I burn a movie (tried DVD,SVCD, and VCD), I notice that the close-ups are amazing quality, but noticed that the more the movie zooms out, i get shittier quality (a persons face). Is there a way to fix this?

[BJ_M]

maybe --- if we had a little more info to go by on what you are doing and your settings and such

[pelekg01]

I burn in vcd mode. I've tried to set bitrate to 3000, but did nothing to the quality. I also tried "constant quality" but did nothing. I've tried to encode to DVD thinking it would help but it did not. I select NTSC 4:3 display.

[BJ_M]

3000 bit rate is not vcd or even svcd standard ... first .. and low for a dvd.

what are you burning the movie on ? a cd or a dvdr ?

what is your source file ?

what will you be playing the movie back on ? a dvd player or on your pc?

[pelekg01]

I will be playing the movie on my dvd player. I will be using cd-r disc. Source video is NTSC 4:3. (sorry about that)

[BJ_M]

well your dvd player seems to be able to support 3000bit rate - so you should create a svcd - or more in fact a xvcd since it also seemto be able to play back "dvd" sizing" ... i still don't know what your source material is, like a divx or dv or a avi capture or a dvd or vhs or what ...

basicly follow this guide
except you should set size to 720 x 480 ,

Average bitrate:2520
Maximum bitrate: 3000
Minimum bitrate: 200
Enable padding: enabled
motionsearch: slowest setting

the values are a bit of a guess on my part of the capibility of your dvd player based on the info you said so far. you might be able to go higher on the avg and max

you can use the svcd template or the dvd template then unlock it and set the values above ...

now for fine tuning --

set GOP for 2 I , 5 P , 0B or if size of mpeg is to large use 1 B 15 GOP size , detect scene change.


use tmpgenc default (for now) quantization ,
in special settings only check off "use floating point....' unless your source video is DV - then check off first box also.

any other setting need more info on your source material.

[pelekg01]

I download the files. They are .mpg dvd rip files.

[BJ_M]

in that case since the source is already a lossy compressed format and prob most likely already re-encoded from the dvd -- encoding once again will not improve it a bit .. what is the bit rate on these files?
was it not already a svcd or was it a vcd ?

[pelekg01]

Yes, they are.