VCD picture quality deteriorates?

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SO I've been making my own vcds of downloaded television episodes that come as vcd compliant mpgs. The mpgs screen fine on the pc. I then burn them to cd-r using Nero. I watch them in my Panasonic LV60 dvd player. Consistently, the last five minutes or so of an episode, the image quality deteriorates, by skipping frames and therefore becoming very "jerky" to watch. Sound quality remains fine. Can anyone tell me if this is a problem with the file, the vcd, or the player? Is there a way round it?

-- sacha (sacha@netvigator.com), February 05, 2002

Answers

The built in MPEG encoder in Nero is not perfect. Try using TMPGEnc to convert the AVI's to MPEG, then cut to VCD with Nero. If the episode is less than 35 minutes long you can encode as SVCD, and the quality is far superior to that of VCD.

-- Paul (sammons@emirates.net.ae), February 25, 2002.

The jerky stuff comes from nero encoding the file which is a vbr file and nero is encoding using CBR I discovered that years ago.. So you would probably need another program to encode the file first before letting nero handle it

-- todd (tandyymanx@sbcglobal.net), December 17, 2004.

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