I understand that to burn a VCD the resolution has to be 352x288 (PAL). Now i have made a vcd useing Studio DV Plus and nero. When i play in my Nintaus DVD player everthing is very blocky from the resolution being magnified (I Think). Now is there a way of making the vcd with a better resolution. Untill the DVD Burners are a bit cheaper.

-- Jamie Weston (westonjam@hotmail.com), January 08, 2002

Answers

try using tmpgenc and a frame server of some sort for your DV source and see what different encoders will do for you. Enlargement is not the main cause of your macro block noise. It's the lousy encoder that is making your vcd bad.

-- (wingstarzz@hotmail.com), January 09, 2002.

Well, I did use TMPGenc last night to encode a previously-made Studio DV movie and burned it with Nero. Plays great on my PC (using Windows media Player) but the quality on the TV is worse than VHS.

-- dmlove (dlove@grmslaw.com), January 17, 2002.

Standard VCD is supposed to be worst than VHS. The best VCD quality is equal to VHS but not better. Using TmpGenc, did you select the standard VCD template for PAL ? Make sure you do. As you become more proficient, you can try to make XVCD which give quality much better than VHS.

-- ktnwin (ktnwin@excite.com), March 06, 2002.

Try the panasonic mpeg1 encoder you still get a bit of blockiness. But it is easier than any other encoder i have found. www.vcdhelper.com shows you how to encode with this software

-- Trevor Pedersen (trevorpedersen@hotmail.com), May 30, 2002.

Multiple pass encoding can make a big difference, but use different codecs. The first pass should be with a high quality (DIVX) encoder and then encode to final MPEG format. The two pass way takes longer but I know for a fact that it made a hell of a difference and a smaller file size.

-- TripleSixPsycho (TripleSixPsycho@aol.com), July 02, 2004.