VCDQuality Forums (http://www.vcdhq.com/forum/index.php)
- Jargon, Encoding/Conversion and Burning (http://www.vcdhq.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=9)
-- widescreen laptop - blocky vid picture (http://www.vcdhq.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=79574)

widescreen laptop - blocky vid picture

hi guys.

i need some help with my new laptop. it's widescreen (1280 x 800) and whilst i can play hd files easily in good picture quality (tested using apple hd trailers 720p), our heavenly dvdrips and r5's etc. turn out all blocky and slightly pixelated.

could it be that having a screen resolution of 1280 x 800 and playing a video with resolution size of approx 600 x 300 is going to be doubled in size and therefore not look as crisp?

what can i do to fix this?

fyi, i have a hd drive in the thing and can burn dvds etc., and also got a hdtv which i can use if needs be.

i was hoping i could just connect the laptop to the hdtv using a hdmi cable and play the avi's, but it seems the video quality as i mentioned suffers a lot and kind of halts my plans.

please help us, i'd really appreciate it.

cheers!

standard divx/xvid looks absolute shit on my dads 22" widescreen monitor... i would be inclined to say its just the low res of xvid causing it to look like that.

I guess it could also be a codec problem... do you get better results if you use VideoLan or MPlayer (neither require codecs)?

__________________
Statistically... 9 out of 10 people actually enjoy gang rape.

videolan is amongst the worst for playback quality, so I doubt that would help.

Its most likely, as stated, the case that you've got a pretty high resolution screen and you're sitting up close to it with low resolution videos. I'm not a big fan of how xvids look on my TV due to the quality difference between watching them on a native 720p screen at 50" compared to 480i at 25" etc. You get used to it after a while, but on my 13" laptop screen, x264 720p TV rips looks visibly better than Xvid ones.. they just look 'right'.

__________________
563-773-1880

<Dwaggy> i caught you a delicious Bass
<The404> This is because you are an idiot