DVD source videos are not.. DVD quality, help please

[NiiX]

I noticed recently that when I'm watching DVD source movies/tv-show episodes the quality is really sucky, like.. REALLY.

I wish I had a old picture to compare it with but this is a picture of Everybody Loves Raymond, which is DVD source, but as you can clearly see, it is not near that quality..

Here is a picture taken from an episode. http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9312/testpr.png

I've used several players, smplayer, vlc, crystal.

I think this quality loss began when I installed smplayer, so I just unistalled it and still same quality..

Any help would be REALLY nice, I have a collection of 250GB to watch..

[Mr.Klean]

Compare that to an actual DVD played in your computer. I think the quality looks fine for a 1920 × 1200 res monitor.

[Brain]

make the window smaller? are they ripped videos? They have probably been converted and condensed to save space, thus degrading the quality. Just sit back farther, lol

[NiiX]

I've watched that video before, about 3 days ago with better quality.. that loss of quality must be some codec that has gone 'bad' xD

Anyone know any fixes for this?

[Mr.Klean]

Have MSN?

[NiiX]

Have MSN?

yanix1337@hotmail.com

[rogeruk]

Use 720p or 1080p versions instead.

700mb rips are just rubbish. Maybe check your source make sure they have not been nuked.

Btw, have you checked what codes you have installed?. Check what codecs are required for the video files (Use GSpot). Maybe you have corrupt codecs.

[NiiX]

Use 720p or 1080p versions instead.

700mb rips are just rubbish. Maybe check your source make sure they have not been nuked.

Btw, have you checked what codes you have installed?. Check what codecs are required for the video files (Use GSpot). Maybe you have corrupt codecs.

The quality STILL gets crappy on 1080p AND 720p, the pixels seem like theyr fucked up, I'll check for corrupted codecs.

Hmm, seems like the x264 decoder is broken, Im ganna fix it once finished encoding, dont wana fuck up the encodes