vcd quality

[splitrivet]

After converting SMR's to VCD either via TMPG,Panasonic,or Ulead the quality is very poor when played on my home DVD especialy in dark scenes (very blockie and with a purplish tinge,if thats a term).Most of the movies downloaded off Kazaa.I am converting to PAL VCD high quality & burning with Nero,Is it the original quality of the movie,the conversion process or just me !! :(
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

[Warren Powers]

The EXACT same thing is happening to me, but its not just with smr movies its with tmd aswell. (on most movies) but others come out just fine using the same techniques listed below on all.
Does anyone know the cause of this...
I have an Apex 1500, burning with Nero, Encoding with Tmpgenc from avi to mpeg.

[Vidbox]

Your machine (PC) info needed in a question like this.
Right now I'm running a 1200 Athlon c, with a Radeon AIW using MMC 7.6 on Win XP, so TMPG encoder in worthless to me. I'm using Ulead DVD Movie Factory for conversion and cut & pasting, which it's very good at.

Change the CPU or Video card and I suppose I'd have a different set of problems...
...go figure, our equiptment isn't really standardize

[w00kiee]

as stated so many times 'gargabe in-garbage out' those smrs are 20 fps highly compressed avis.. there is a lot of artifacting in those. all encoders try to preserve the origional so they waste bits reproducing the artifacting. so you end up with more blocking from mpeg1.

if you run a smoother somewhere in your encoding process that will smooth things out a bit PLUS make the job easier for tmpgenc. but your final result still is gonna be crappy...

get a good divx and you'll be a little more impressed with the final results