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my dvd looks terrible on windows media player
Hi there, a quick question to see if anyone had previous experience of this issue. ive exported an MPEG2-dvd which im very happy with- looks good on telly and computer – realplayer aand several other common pc players. however… as i imagine its likely people with try to watch my film on windows media player… when ive done this its grey – washed out. the blockiness in the darker areas is more apparent. It generally looks pretty poor. its not that i have contrast settings set low or anything like that. and my dvd is compressed to the highest poss bitrate and as i said before – looks great in all other viewers. my windows media player set up normally and everything else plays on it fine fine. very frustrating and confusing. any ideas?
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I don’t know if this is of any help, but in my view a DVD needs to be working and have proper image on a DVD player first and consequently on software DVD players like Mac DVD player, Power DVD etc. That is the purpose of proving a DVD anyway…
Whether it plays properly on media players like WMP VLC Core media player etc. should be somewhat irrelevant, cause if you think about it you could always ship/provide a computer friendly video file like quicktime H264 or WMV HD (with the 9 series profile). You’re probably aware that there’s a provision on DVD’s to also ship any kind of files with it you wish. On encore for example it is on the “Build” tab, there’s a section called “DVD-ROM Content” with a browse button, you can then point to the file(s) you wish to provide with your DVD while leaving the rest of the content intact.
On a side note it’s quite possible that WMP native mpg2 encoder is crappy and doesn’t process the video nicely (actually I’ve never had to use WMP for DVD viewing) so it could be the reason why you’re having problems. The other thing is that the biggest percentage of computer users out there has some sort of DVD software player installed by default so the computer will in 90% of cases invoke this player if the user clicks on the .vob files, so that might take a little bit of worrying of your back.
Cheers.
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