Please help with VCD and Nero

[shhas]

Hi everyone.
I have been visiting these pages quite frequently. I have a pretty good knowledge of computers but not movie editing and making.
Here is the deal (I know a lot of people have asked this before but please post the answer one more time)
I would like to make VCDs of my home videos. I have a Cannon Ultura miniDV camcorder and capture using the firewire port on my PC (P4 1.6, 512 ram, 64 vram) and Ulead Video Studio 5.0 SE. I capture in AVI and converte to VCD using template (NTSC) provided through Ulead.
I also used TMPGEnc.
The problem is that the quality of VCD sucks!. I looks good in a 3x3 inch screen on the PC but on my TV when playing it through my Toshiba DVD player, it's very blurry and at times blocky.
I know the concept of garbage in garbage out, but I am using raw DV and converting to AVI and basically following all the guidelines posted here.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to tweak bitrates, use another VCD template?....
I am not looking for DVD quality but at least something as good as VHS otherwise what is the point in this exercise?
Thanks a bunch,

[PhArAoH]

Ooops, sorry. Wrong forum.

BTW, can anybody tell me If I can delete my own posts?

Thanx

[Mavrick]

I use VideoStudio also and so far its the only way I can get it to work. I capture in 720x576. Then I save as an AVI using the SVCD template. Do not use the VCD. VCD is very low quality and will look bad. SVCD will get you very close to VHS quality. After I save the file in SVCD mode. I burn the file using Nero SVCD template. Presto it works great.

As far as using the other utils seen on this site. I always get audio sync problems when using them.

Hope this helps!

Mavrick