(So don't use nero 6 to burn VCD's, use VV 4) Keep in mind VCD is supposedly = to normal VHS and from what I have done over the last few years this is true, however it also depends on many factors when you encode. I burned the exact same file with VV and it was flawless. I actually burned 3 of them and all results were the same. I used VV 4 for the VCD encoding and the results were great and I burned it to VCD using Nero 6.0.0.11 and it was extremly poor - digital garble, stutters, audio drop outs. For burning I had good results always with Nero 5.x however since upgrading to Nero 6 I have to say there are many issues with various features that make me regret the 'upgrade'. Never use Nero to encode as the results are very poor in my opinion, and many others if you read posts on other forums. Until VV 4 that is what I used exclusivly. If you don't want to upgrade to VV 4 than I would suggest using TMPGEnc for your encoding. I agree with the statement by others than Nero's MPEG-2 encoding is not good (although I have not tried the new Nero 6 yet.) You will need to render as MPEG-2 for a MiniDVD.ĮDIT: I am editing this message to specify that you not use Nero to do the MPEG-2 encoding. Because they are full DVD quality, MiniDVDs get only 15 to 18 minutes of playing time on a CD-R. MiniDVDs are just short DVDs that are burned to a CD-R or CD-RW instead of a DVD blank. What make and model of DVD player do you have?

Not all DVD players can play MiniDVD, but many of the newer ones can. 'How can I improve the VCD quality to match or at a minimum, come close to the quality of the original source?'įor the maximum quality that you can put on a CD-R, the MiniDVD format is what you should use. Rendering as AVI should prevent Nero from recompressing MPEG-1 to MPEG-1 if indeed that is what is happening. While the lower resolution of MPEG-1 does limit your video quality, it should be about as good as VHS which is ordinary TV quality.

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