Question about Video Quality????

[StargateVcds]

Hey

Ive been using a Standalone vcd machine for 2 years now and Love the quality of the Mpeg 1 VCDs.

I just got DSL so I decided to try and download a Star Trek episode. I downloaded a DS9 episode and it looked ok in quality.

I have Nero so I opened up a new Video CD window and started to use the Video Encoding so it would change from .avi to MPEG1 VCD.

When the process of Video Endoding ended, It burned on to the CD.

I played the new VCD on my DVD player and the quality looks pretty Bad. The color is really off and It looks like the video is (flashing?) or flickering.

Does anyone know whats going on? DO all downloads look this bad in quality? Any ideas?

[ghoster]

well eveytime you encode something you lose quality on the video, but most of the time it is not noticable. inless the input video is not very good to start with..........

[StargateVcds]

humm.....

The quality on the computer screen looks WAY different compared to watching it on TV.

Anyone know about the flashing pixelation(sp) ? It quickly flashes in the video.

[systemlord]

Nero is great for burning, not for encoding. Use TMPGEnc or some other encoder out of the Tools section. The result will probably look way better (at least if the audiostream is mp, with ac3 you'll have to split the two streams and use an audio-encoder)