Disappointed with VCD quality

[Cline2]

I bought ATI-IN-WONDER Radeon 7500. I am impressed with this card because it captures video is great I mean frame drop is ZERO and the quality is very good when you play AVI, MPEGs on PC and watch it the pictures look good.

I wasn't impressed with VCD quality, when I capture video, the quality is good on PC then I create it for VCD and play it from my DVD player the quality from TV looks not too good. How do I do it to make it look good like the one from the computer when play it from Window Media Player or PowerDVD??

Please help me on how to make AVI or MPEG to VCD that has good quality on TV??


Thank you.

[jeremymiller]

I have the same card. I have captured avi by using Virtualdub and then turn it into VCD by using Tmpg--this site has guide on how to do all these. Make sure you lauch the TV program first and then shut it off and then lauch VDub. I use 640X480 as setting, which eventually produces good quality VCDs. However, this eats up hard drive quite quickly. Now, I do the following, with similar results.

I custom set the ATI MMC to capture DVD at 720X480, 15m/sec, quality 100. What you get is mp2 file. You would need DVD2AVI to frame serve the file, and then use Tmpg to covert to VCDs. This process is similar to DVD ripping after you copy the Vobs files from DVD to your hard drive. This site also has instructions under DVD Ripping.

In short, if you capture directly in mpg1 format by using ATI MMC, the result is not good at all. By capturing avi or mpg2 and then convert, you will see better results.

However, rember, VCD, no matter how you work on it, at best, looks decent when produced on home PC using ATI capture cards. It won't look as nice as the commercially released VCDs, and certainly DVDs.

[Plant_Guy]

Why are you frameserving to TMPGEnc? Can't you open the file directly? I found that by saving to MPEG1 format, TMPGEnc can open the file, no problem. It speeds up the overall process, I think.

TomG. - aka Plant_Guy