Burning MPEG 1 to VCD

[Nicola]

Hi Everybody....
It may sound stupid, but I'm trying to copy all my old VHS cassettes on VCD in order to be able to watch them on my stand alone player. I've all the hardware and software (Cyberlink Power VCR).
I've no problems in generating the MPEG1 file (I'm not interested in copying it into a higher resolution format, the cassettes are not in a great state, so losing a bit in quality is not an issue.) but then when I try to burn a VCD with Nero (the latest version 5.5.10 or something like that) the result in VCD is really bad.
If I watch the MPEG file on my television (PC and TV are connected) it looks great, the sound if fine and the picture is clear enough. But if I make a VCD and watch the same movie from the standalone player the quality is crap.

Anybody with a solution for that?
Thanks a bunch and Merry Xmas!

[kestephens]

Same problem only mine is digital. Made the mistake of authoring in Microsoft (666) MM2. When converting wmv to mpeg 1 using tmpgenc do not lose quality when viewing on the PC. When bur to VCD for Hitachi standalone quality gets jerky and throws timing of the audio off. Are there settings that should or should not be used when converting to mpeg1? Used PAL and NTSC both played, PAL much better picture. Non interlaces 4:3 aspect ratio 704X576. Other settings advanced ghost reduction, noise reduction, sharpen edge, custom color correction.
These obviously are not correct, has anyone used settings that they were happy with????

Thanks