Still quality problems

Kayakboy wrote on 2/13/2005, 7:16 PM

I've burned a VCD and I'm still getting quality issues when it is played back on a DVD and TV. The pictures are just a bit fuzzy. They seem better when played back on a computer with media player. But still not perfect. Not as good as they look in Movie Studio. I have not zoomed or cropped any of the pictures.

Where is the loss in quality coming from? Does it matter what speed the cd is burned at? Also I'm using standard CD-R's....does that matter.

Thanks,

Comments

gogiants wrote on 2/13/2005, 10:33 PM

This might then be related to what was suggested in your other thread on this subject: there will be differences in how things appear on your computer versus how they look on a TV screen. Particularly with VCDs which just aren't the highest quality way to view things on TV.

Just to be sure: are you comparing the very same MPEG files on your computer with the ones that get burned onto your VCD?

That said, I've always found that things generally look more crisp on my computer than on my TV, even when using high bit-rate MPEG-2. I chalk it up to the differences in how pixels are displayed on a TV versus a computer, plus the same "pixel count" on a TV has to cover a lot more physical screen real estate than on a computer.