<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 6-Apr-09, at 4:59 PM, Steve V wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">I read up some more and I found that increasing the resolution from 480 x 576 (PAL) to 720 x 576 can improve the picture. I tried that last night and it did improve it but not quite to where i would expect the composite input to be.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>When you double the number of pixels you should also increase the encoder's bitrate otherwise it's more stuff at half the quality. The page at <a href="http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html">http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html</a> can help you get a feel for what might be appropriate.</div><div><br></div><div>- George</div></body></html>