Poor DVD playback quality

Hi, I have an iBook G3 500 MHz w/ 256 MB Ram and a DVD-Rom. The drive will accept a CD or DVD fine, but when the program DVD Player opens to play the DVD, I just get a large black window on the screen. If I stop the playback, it will go to the title menu and sit there. If I use VLC to view the DVD, it will play the movie, but seems to be a bit skitterish. The OS is a new install of 10.3.9 BTW. Also, the sound doesn't work properly on the iBook with any application (the built in speakers). I tried an external set of speakers and they work fine, and also swapped out the built in speakers with a known good set and still nothing. Perhaps the two are related? I searched the archives and couldn't find any related threads..
Thanks in advance to all those who offer advice.
...Tom

Does the iBook still have its OS 9 startup volume? Go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and see if OS 9 is available. If it is, select it and start up in OS 9 and see if the speaker problem exists there, also. If so, it points to a hardware issue.
As for the DVD problems, try closing all other applications when trying to watch a DVD. Maximizing the RAM with a 512 MB RAM module may help. With the limited RAM, DVD's may play better in OS 9, as well.
How big is the hard drive and how much space remains available on it?

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I am working on a video project with the NTSC DVD as the deliverable. The project is realtively simple. It contains one mpeg2 video file, an adio track and a few menues. It is all ok except for the horrible DVD quality I am getting from Encore SC4. The original mpeg2 video quality is very good. This mpeg2 video file was generated using the Proshow Producer program with NTSC DVD setting as output. Here is what mediainfo has to say about this file:
General
Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\Pozegnanie Melanii Grobelnej_DVD.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 2.08 GiB
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 6 518 Kbps
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : No
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=1, N=12
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 6 164 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.595
Stream size                              : 1.97 GiB (95%)
Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 73.4 MiB (3%)
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With automatic transcoding the resulting video quality is plain horrible. I keep blinking my eyes because everything is so badly out of focus. I keep trying to specify the transcoding quality to as high as Encore allows me but the resulting video stays at very poor quality. I am not very expierence with the transcoding function of Encore but what I am getting "out of the box" is garbage so I hope you, more expierenced gentlemen, could help me squeese more from this S/W.
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General
Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\amanda_customDVD_2.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 34.4 MiB
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Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 9 585 Kbps
Writing library                          : Photodex mpeg encoder
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=18
Duration                                 : 30s 63ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 9 200 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.888
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Color primaries                          : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.601
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601
Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 30s 24ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -33ms
Stream size                              : 821 KiB (2%)
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I do not know what the M/N settings describe but the M/N settings are different in the second file. Some other settings are different as well, e.g., Bit/(Pixel*Frame).
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Peter

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Sarfraz

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QUESTION:
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HHHMMM….. where to start. First, you can’t possibly
hold yourself to commercial quality unless you have a
commercial budget.
I don't expect commercial quality - just to be able to display the millions of colors and the extreme clarity on any TV and even better still on a HDTV. So far I only can get the quality I seek on a computer display. All my efforts to find a solution for television playback have resulted in a fuzzy and jerky animated feature. Here again I'm not looking for commercial quality - just clear, crisp and smooth.
Hollywood spends millions on
feature films. Compression hardware alone can run
several thousands if not hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Compared to iDVD included in a $79 software
suite? However, even the Hollywood produced DVDs must
rely on the DVD specification and as such, 1080i is
currently lost on them. So your answer to “isn’t iDVD
supposed to write anything I give it” is that if iDVD
takes your QT file (Which BTW, should be in the DV
format) it WILL compress it to a DVD MPEG 2 compliant
file. This means 720x480.
But I don't want any compression other than the final step MPEG2. And after reading this reply today - THANK YOU - THANK YOU - I at least understand now that I can't even use iDVD because it doesn't offer MPEG2 as a compressor.
I have located a mpeg2 encoder program that is shareware and will try to find a formule to use after iMovie HD additions of themes and chapters.
So the first step to take
is to recognize the limitations of equipment and
understand the standards. So now we should examine
the workflow to see if there is anything that can be
done. Other than knowing what Flash is, I don’t know
much about it. Can you select a frame size for doing
your animations? If so, guess what, use the 720x480
frame size. This is what iDVD is going to make it
(again, FCP may offer more options to you but that
isn’t listed in your arsenal).
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1)make sure you export your movie in FCP as QT movie self-contained
2)Import it in Compressor
3)In the Settings tab (lower left window) Open Apple>DVD10 groups>choose DVD 90 minutes best quality and drop that folder on your video (upper left batch window). Compressor will encode your movie as Mpeg2 video an AC3 dolby stereo. In the inspector window you can change a number of settings if you wanted to but, if you are not familiar with Compressor, leave default settings to see if you are happy with the result (take sometime to read the very useful PDF manual that you can find in the main menu>help)
4)Choose destination
5)Submit
G.

Poor DVD playback quality

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