Well, thats the downside of burning things yourself on VCD. The only way you could have good quality like on professional DVD's are if you got the raw video, and encoded it yourself. What burning programs, such as Nero, do is that they encode the files so the DVD player will be able to read them. You would also gain better quality if you burned them on DVDs. VCD's tend to have less space so quality loss is affected by that. Also the program that you are using could use a different encoding which brings out less quality. Hope I could help.