Slide show issues in VideoCD

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I used Windows Movie Maker to create a JPG slide show, to record onto
VideoCD. The images are 640x480, 150ppi. The WMV file was then converted to
MPG using TMPGEnc, and burned onto VideoCD using Nero. Here's the problem:

1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of the
border flicker is about 10 pixels.
3) Each image is pixellated.

Of course, considering this sample was recorded onto VideoCD, Nero warned me
that the quality would be downgraded. How do I fix the above problems? Do I
need to adjust TMPGEnc settings, image size, or what?

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

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- Dave
http://members.cox.net/grundage/
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Re: Slide show issues in VideoCD by Rehan

Rehan
Thu Nov 25 17:33:54 CST 2004

Your procedure is fine but I think you chose to re-encode when Nero said the
mpeg fileis not standard compliant. You need to ignore that and make sure
nero sues mpeg created by TMPGenc. This should produce decent quality.


> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.

This is normal. Called TV overscan. For historic reasons the normal tv
display is expanded to hide 5% to 10% from all the sides.


> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of the
> border flicker is about 10 pixels.

it is strange that this flickering is still visible. This is what the
overscan is supposed to hide.

> 3) Each image is pixellated.

If you use the procedure mentioned above then the picture resolution should
be decent but not great. To get good picture quality you need to encode your
slideshow with high bitrate and save as WMV of output size at least 800x600
using the custom profiles provided by papajohn on his site.

Note: DV AVI produces slightly blurry output from still pictures due to non
square pixel encoding.


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Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker



"Dave" <dgrund74@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I used Windows Movie Maker to create a JPG slide show, to record onto
>VideoCD. The images are 640x480, 150ppi. The WMV file was then converted to
>MPG using TMPGEnc, and burned onto VideoCD using Nero. Here's the problem:
>
> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of the
> border flicker is about 10 pixels.
> 3) Each image is pixellated.
>
> Of course, considering this sample was recorded onto VideoCD, Nero warned
> me that the quality would be downgraded. How do I fix the above problems?
> Do I need to adjust TMPGEnc settings, image size, or what?
>
> Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
>
> --
> - Dave
> http://members.cox.net/grundage/
>


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Re: Slide show issues in VideoCD by Dave

Dave
Thu Nov 25 20:20:06 CST 2004

What's Papajohn's site?

"Rehan" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> Your procedure is fine but I think you chose to re-encode when Nero said
> the mpeg fileis not standard compliant. You need to ignore that and make
> sure nero sues mpeg created by TMPGenc. This should produce decent
> quality.
>
>
>> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
>
> This is normal. Called TV overscan. For historic reasons the normal tv
> display is expanded to hide 5% to 10% from all the sides.
>
>
>> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of
>> the border flicker is about 10 pixels.
>
> it is strange that this flickering is still visible. This is what the
> overscan is supposed to hide.
>
>> 3) Each image is pixellated.
>
> If you use the procedure mentioned above then the picture resolution
> should be decent but not great. To get good picture quality you need to
> encode your slideshow with high bitrate and save as WMV of output size at
> least 800x600 using the custom profiles provided by papajohn on his site.
>
> Note: DV AVI produces slightly blurry output from still pictures due to
> non square pixel encoding.
>
>
> --
> Rehan
> www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker
>
>
>
> "Dave" <dgrund74@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:piqpd.102332$tU4.86090@okepread06...
>>I used Windows Movie Maker to create a JPG slide show, to record onto
>>VideoCD. The images are 640x480, 150ppi. The WMV file was then converted
>>to MPG using TMPGEnc, and burned onto VideoCD using Nero. Here's the
>>problem:
>>
>> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
>> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of
>> the border flicker is about 10 pixels.
>> 3) Each image is pixellated.
>>
>> Of course, considering this sample was recorded onto VideoCD, Nero warned
>> me that the quality would be downgraded. How do I fix the above problems?
>> Do I need to adjust TMPGEnc settings, image size, or what?
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> - Dave
>> http://members.cox.net/grundage/
>>
>
>


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Re: Slide show issues in VideoCD by Rehan

Rehan
Fri Nov 26 02:07:48 CST 2004

If you dont know papajohns website you are missing out big time...

www.papajohn.org

When the menu on the left loads, go to Saving Movies -> Custom WMV Profiles

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Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker



"Dave" <dgrund74@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fpwpd.102354$tU4.74396@okepread06...
> What's Papajohn's site?
>
> "Rehan" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news:ebrk3c00EHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Your procedure is fine but I think you chose to re-encode when Nero said
>> the mpeg fileis not standard compliant. You need to ignore that and make
>> sure nero sues mpeg created by TMPGenc. This should produce decent
>> quality.
>>
>>
>>> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
>>
>> This is normal. Called TV overscan. For historic reasons the normal tv
>> display is expanded to hide 5% to 10% from all the sides.
>>
>>
>>> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of
>>> the border flicker is about 10 pixels.
>>
>> it is strange that this flickering is still visible. This is what the
>> overscan is supposed to hide.
>>
>>> 3) Each image is pixellated.
>>
>> If you use the procedure mentioned above then the picture resolution
>> should be decent but not great. To get good picture quality you need to
>> encode your slideshow with high bitrate and save as WMV of output size at
>> least 800x600 using the custom profiles provided by papajohn on his site.
>>
>> Note: DV AVI produces slightly blurry output from still pictures due to
>> non square pixel encoding.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rehan
>> www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dave" <dgrund74@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:piqpd.102332$tU4.86090@okepread06...
>>>I used Windows Movie Maker to create a JPG slide show, to record onto
>>>VideoCD. The images are 640x480, 150ppi. The WMV file was then converted
>>>to MPG using TMPGEnc, and burned onto VideoCD using Nero. Here's the
>>>problem:
>>>
>>> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
>>> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of
>>> the border flicker is about 10 pixels.
>>> 3) Each image is pixellated.
>>>
>>> Of course, considering this sample was recorded onto VideoCD, Nero
>>> warned me that the quality would be downgraded. How do I fix the above
>>> problems? Do I need to adjust TMPGEnc settings, image size, or what?
>>>
>>> Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Dave
>>> http://members.cox.net/grundage/
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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