Burning home videos to DVD to play on a wide screen 42" TV monitor via a dvd player

Granitechops said:
Westcott said:
How is your dvd player connected to the big-screen Telly?
SCART or HDMI?
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Scart
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Ah --- I was just about to ask the same question. There's a root cause of your quality issues: you won't get top quality DVD reproduction through SCART, and certainly not HD or upscaled HD. That'll be why you're losing quality even on commercial DVDs compared to playing them on a PC. Use HDMI!
 
Granitechops said:
Thanks John
very informative
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Also thanks from here as well. I had thought about the problem being with the dvd player and was just about to conduct some more tests. Small problem the camcorder battery was flat. :Looser:.
 
Interesting point in that link to Wikipeadia, about density of the pixels per square cm

Anyway one Big discovery
On the Toshiba 42" I can organise my pics intoa folder & then with folder open, play it as a slideshow by clicking slide show in the left hand column
or by right clicking, & choosing open with.... windows picture & fax viewer
(( I dont do as Help says, & double click on pic, as that opens another picture viewer, Media Impressions, which does not open to full screen))

OK so nothing new there then
except as there is no loss of defnition at large screen size

So brilliant pics, but no titles.

The automatic default time of each slide is 5 secs, it needs to be faster , cant find a way to alter that, any one know?

Just had a thought could I do a slide show in publisher? give it a try


So next challenge get same with videos

Hope that does not mean Blue ray discs & BD player
 
That's a good start Cyril - I take it that you have your camera set to record at that resolution as well (lower resolutions may be the default to increase recording time). If you are recording in full HD, then the manual should also say which method of compression is used (MPEG - Motion Pictures Expert Group - then a number) and the resulting file type. If you post back on these then we can have a go at seeing what you need to do. And get Fred in the debate as well, he's good at these kind of things!

Just seen post 23. Forget any hope of quality if using scart - it cannot take HD in any shape or form. Ideally you need an HDMI connection, next preferable is Component Video (3 video cables + sound), then you reach the likes of Composite Video and S-VHS which don't stack up at all. And then there's scart. Or I suspect in other words - a new TV and DVD player!
 
Just had a thought could I do a slide show in publisher? give it a try
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Power-point might be better, if you have it.
 
Hi Don,

Try this procedure in Movie Maker, it may improve things a little quality-wise

Change the apsect ratio to 16.9 via Tools, Options, Advanced.

Imort your movie clips and insert to the story-board as usual.

When saving the movie file, at the "Movie Settings" screen select "other settings" then select "Video for local playback (2.1Mbps)".

This will give a higher screen resolution than the standard settings and the correct aspect ratio for a large screen TV.

I'm assuming that your creating the videos on your PC then burning to DVD afterwards.

If creating straight on to CD/DVD from Movie maker there may be higher resolution settings available to you in the Movie Settings screen.
 
Thicko question, but if the big gogglebox has a VGA input couldnt you save the video and slideshow content on a slaptop and run it direct from there with better quality? :thinking:
 
I have just tried some fresh recorded video direct down the RGB lead to the Tosh and the quality is not as good as to the old cathode ray tele, but it's not too bad considering the increase in size. It is still in 4:3 format leaving the sides blank. I now need to drop it onto the P.C. and try transfer to DVD, to see what happens.
 
bobg said:
Just had a thought could I do a slide show in publisher? give it a try
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Power-point might be better, if you have it.
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I have Powerpoint Viewer 2003
but have no stuff with the right extension so wont open
 
3Valve said:
Hi Don,

Try this procedure in Movie Maker, it may improve things a little quality-wise

Change the apsect ratio to 16.9 via Tools, Options, Advanced.

Imort your movie clips and insert to the story-board as usual.

When saving the movie file, at the "Movie Settings" screen select "other settings" then select "Video for local playback (2.1Mbps)".

This will give a higher screen resolution than the standard settings and the correct aspect ratio for a large screen TV.

I'm assuming that your creating the videos on your PC then burning to DVD afterwards.

If creating straight on to CD/DVD from Movie maker there may be higher resolution settings available to you in the Movie Settings screen.
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Thanks Gareth, I wondered about those settings, a lot to choose from if you know how they compare
 
3Valve said:
Hi Don,

Try this procedure in Movie Maker, it may improve things a little quality-wise

Change the apsect ratio to 16.9 via Tools, Options, Advanced.

Imort your movie clips and insert to the story-board as usual.

When saving the movie file, at the "Movie Settings" screen select "other settings" then select "Video for local playback (2.1Mbps)".

This will give a higher screen resolution than the standard settings and the correct aspect ratio for a large screen TV.

** I'm assuming that your creating the videos on your PC then burning to DVD afterwards. **

If creating straight on to CD/DVD from Movie maker there may be higher resolution settings available to you in the Movie Settings screen.
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Thats what I have done so far.

Reading every thing on here has been very helpful.

regarding the scart lead, the present dvd Player, has a scart connection, & two sockets a yellow jack & an "s video" socket, but have no leads to fit that

the player is 5.7 years old & hangs up when playing some hire videos

maybe time to try a new one

was thinking a cheap one that has HDMI, upscaling, & is about £25

Blue ray discs & player is out of my range!!!
 
Granitechops said:
So after reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video

S video is out no good for Hi def
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Nope. S-Video a little better than standard VHS, but not by much.

So, if your DVD player has only got SCART (composite and possibly RGB), "yellow jack" (composite) and S-Video then you're stuffed as far as HD goes. Of those, RGB should give the best but it depends on your DVD player and the TV both supporting that format. Modern TVs usually do support RGB through SCART (for games consoles and stuff).

Plenty of cheaper-end DVD players around with HDMI and some form of upscaling. I notice LIDL have their Silvercrest one on offer at our local. Had one of these once but it didn't last long - the laser gave up (a common problem with some cheapies). Currently we have a cheap Phillips one upstairs - I think it's branded as "plays anything" or something like that - and that's been fine.

Might be an idea to look out for a DVD player with a USB input that'll play some formats of videos and photos from a memory stick. That way you can experiment without having to burn DVDs all the time. Our "main" DVD player (another Phillips) has this and I do find it useful on occasion, I can hook up an external hard disk and play stuff from that.
 
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