VCD on big screens?

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I am trying to play a VCD on a big screen TV and I don't know if the poor quality is do too the projection. I am aware of the encoding process, but the video quality looks good on my computer, but when I burn the CD and play it on my my igscreen it looks worse then a VHS. I have a Sony HI8 VT350 and I am using a USB 2.0 interface. Any ideas on how to improve the quality?

-- mentalfloss (mentalfloss202@yahoo.com), March 01, 2004

Answers

You can enjoy play DVD, VCD simply bad visual quality.

-- David Yu (loh@webmail.co.za), March 01, 2004.

In truth, VCD is, at best, as good as VHS, but in most cases it's probably worse. The bit rate is too low to allow for a really good quality picture. You have a few options. You could try encoding your source, assuming you didn't record it directly as VCD, with TMPGenc (http://www.tmpgenc.net) and set Noise Reduction (it's an Advanced option) at the highest levels. It will help a lot, but it may honestly take days to encode your video. No joke. You could make XVCD, which is VCD with a higher bit rate than the standards allow for. Finally, you could make SVCD, which has a higher bit rate than VCD and can offer quality close to DVD under the right circumstances. http://www.dvdrhelp.com has some info on SVCD and maybe on XVCD too.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), March 02, 2004.

VCD actually contains half the 'pixels' of a VHS recording because VHS is 'interlaced' (each frame contains 2 fields). On top of that, the low bitrate causes heavy blokage and reduction in detail. A large TV screen will show all this up.

-- chris302 (chrisdacosta371@hotmail.com), August 08, 2004.

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