Washed-Out Video

[Discus]

I have encoded a number of avis -- divx, xvid, and others -- into SVCD MPEGs, using DVD2SVCD with CCE, 4-pass VBR. One consistent difference between the sources and the results is that the resultant .mpg is washed out in comparison to the original. That is to say, it is overexposed, light spots in the original become totally white in the encoded .mpg.

I know the frame can be darkened with filters, but that is not necessarily useful. I wonder what is causing this washed-out effect: is it intrinsic in the re-encoding to MPEG, or is there something I can do differently?

Thank you for your help,
David

[Boulder]

Could it be a famous DirectX problem? If the screen looks like it had 256 colors, it might be that one.

There's a fix to this at the very bottom of this page (download, install and restart your computer) :

http://cultact-server.novi.dk/kpo/avisynth/avs_cvs.html

[Discus]

No, that wasn't the problem.

It's not a prohibitive thing, just mildly irritating, that what looked rich, bright and colorful in the original becomes dull and washed out in the mpeg. I thought perhaps this is an unavoidable problem with the color depth and bitrate changes in converting to mpeg.

Thanks,
David