Simplest way to improve quality of full screen movie?

[AlanCake]

Greets from the land of kilts and haggis (Scotland)

Before I begin I want to predicate my question by saying that I have looked through the forum for suitable feedback on my particular problem and haven't came up with the answer I require.

So the question

I'm converting using TMPGENC using the PAL VCD standard template with good results. However I've only encoded wide screen movies up to this point. When I tried encoding a full screen movie the quality was not so good. I don't know the technical ins and outs but I suspect its something like having to display a bigger bit of screen at the same standard bitrate 1150.

I have a good player which will I'm sure take a higher bitrate. So is the simplest and best way to improve the quality of this movie simply to increase the bitrate? And, what would be your suggestion for the increase?

The quality of the full screen movies isn't bad it just needs to be a bit better. I thought maybe up the bitrate to, say, 2000 might do the trick.

Kind regards

Alan

[flaninacupboard]

assuming your player is capable, use a bit rate calc, tell it how many discs youre using, and how long your video is. a movie of 90 mins will fit on two discs with a bit rate of 1800kbps, and looks very nice.

[Greg12]

what file sie r u capturing at.

if ur capturing at 320x240, then you resize it, you will get crappy results.