Perfect vcd's at last!

[GIBBO]

Like many people who visit this great site I have burned literaly hundreds of vcd's most of them range from rubbish to passable. I have tried every setting under the sun in smartripper, dvd2avi and tmpgenc and the answer isn't in these applications.Just partition your hard drive giving at least 12 gig and use this drive solely for your vcd's. Delete all files and run defrag after each burn. I run windows me and burn with Nero 5.5. Try it!

[Jeomite]

What do you mean by 'Perfect' VCDs? As in quality of the VCDs? If so that, Defragmenting your HD does not affect the quality of the output of the VCD...

Defragmenting does help a little bit toward the encoding process...

[cmirza]

are you playing your VCDs solely on your PC? If so, why are you using VCD? Why not use DivX, the only reason I use VCD is so I can watch them on my TV.

[cross10]

also im a newbie to all this vcd stuff and i ve ripped from dvd and the is no reason why anyone shouldnt get a perfect vcd drom dvd the problem im having is avis ive downloaded to vcd i get lots of blockiness when i watch them on my tv via my standalone dvd can anyone help me out i currently encode with tmpgenc is there particular settings i should use?

[cmirza]

I'm assuming the AVIs are in DivX format. If so, the reason the quality isn't that good is because MPEG codec is sensitive to the macroblocking of DivX (essentially MPEG4) which while lower than VCD (MPEG1), it is sigifigantly higher than that of a DVD (MPEG2). Think of it as when you make a copy of a copy on cassette, the noise is amplified everytime you make a copy. You could add lots of noise reduction under the 'Advanced' Tab and Soften Block Noise under the 'Quantize Matrix' Tab, but you're not going to get the same quality you get from a DVD->VCD rip.

[homerpez]

Am I alone here, or does anyone understand what the problem was to begin with, that defragging solves? I can understand capture, but as for encodes, etc. There is really no difference...