Ive got an xvid film of a friend first time ive played one and the picture is shit is this the usally norm got the codec to play it in windows media player am i doing somthing wrong ??
XviD is basically just a tool, the quality can be great or it can be shit. Just depends on how you use it, also the other tools you use and the materials you have to work with. If you have a bad quality source then the XviD encoded version is not going to look any better. If you encode at full DVD res with a 100kbit bitrate then it is going to look like crap to. Could also be a playback issue as you say though. Can you post a screen shot?
Cheers for the info sorry didn"t reply sooner at work all work no play the xvid in question is a episode of stargate i now know where he got it from Hmm it says its width is 512 pixels and height 288 and 141kbps gave him it back now cheers anyway...
Just by chance i changed my graphics card its my sons playing up in his pc and put it in mine my mate came round with the disk he said cracking picture on his pc so he tried it in mine again and and would you believe it good picture not sure how you do those screen shots ild show you cheers once again.........
