This may be a really dumb question, but I am a complete newbie and need some help! I have downloaded video files from torrent sites and burned them onto DVD-R discs with Nero software. The discs WORK fine in my standalone DVD player, but the quality isn't that good. The picture is fuzzy and grainy which makes it a little difficult to watch. I was just wondering if there is any way to increase the quality of my burned movies? I am using Windows XP, Nero 7, .AVI files, and 4.7GB blank DVD-R discs. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks...
If you download from torrent sites, basically what you download is what you get. Quality on most torrent sites is horrendous.
You need to download better quality videos. If they look really good on your PC then you have other issues, crappy tv or crappy dvd player, crappy nero, crappy media, crappy burner.. A "Friend" of mine is into torrents and his downloads/dvd-r's look almost as good as a store bought dvd. I think you'd want to make sure you have a good download to begin with. Larger file sizes usually look better. You aren't converting AVI's back to DVD are you? You lose a little bit of quality doing it that way. Better to buy a DivX capable dvd player at wally, you can get 6 movies on one dvd-r..
Thanks for the comments and suggestions guys...to get DVD-R quality from torrents does your "friend" just go through the different available torrents and see which ones are the best quality? Because I think that is my problem: the torrents that are being downloaded just aren't great quality... Also, is there any particular torrent download site that is best for better looking files?
The ones I have 'ran across' go from terrible to decent to dvd quality. Also have 'seen' a lot of fake files too. Larger files aren't always better, as the fakes also tend to be large files also.
Demonoid.com mininova.com superfundo.com are where my friend goes. If you're talking about a movie, you'd wanna look for a file atleast 700MB but not more than say 999MB. Look for works done by reputable rippers such as aXXo, Leetay, sIrIoUsShArE, kookoo, just to name a few, go here and click on "rippers" http://axxo.superfundo.org/ any name on that list is a reputable ripper. It's not really the site that you get your file from, it's the person that made the torrent that you wanna look at. Also watchout bigtime on thinking about downloading programs. Do so at your own risk/peril!!!!!
