Re: [VCDImager] Muddy quality and a green line

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 18:54, address@hidden wrote:
> I am on Mac OS X. I capture video in iMovie from my DV camcorder. It 
> looks great. I convert it to mjpeg format using Quicktime Pro. It still 
> looks great. I use mksvcd (mjpegtools 1.4.1) to create an mpeg2 and then 
> I use vcdimager 0.7.10 to build the image. I then burn it to CD with 
> Toast Titanium.
have you tried watching the mpeg2 stream on the computer before passing
it to vcdimager?
 
> When I watch the SVCD on TV it is very muddy. Everything is darker than 
> it should be. The shadows lose their detail. The colors lose their 
> saturation. And there is also a green line on the right side of the 
> screen. What's going on? Any ideas?
fyi, vcdimager does not modify the video encoding of the mpeg stream; it
just packages the stream into the required cdrom sectors;
 
thus the problem is either the mpeg encoding, or your playing device...

btw, you haven't mentioned what brand your player is... maybe the green
bar/line is caused by the SDE width setting (the specs seem to recommend
using DVD-like settings, i.e. 560, but maybe your player really requires
480 in order to fill the screen completely...)

regards
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