Toshiba SD220e and skips in XVCD

[Cole]

As the title suggests I have a Tosh SD220e and have a slightly annoying issue with my XVCDs.

They seem to jump at least once during playback. I have used 8x to burn and dropped it to 4x but the problem still happens.

Does anyone know if this is something to do with the bitrate used (have XVCDs with various bitrates and this makes no difference - CBR and VBR) or is it down to the CD-r media that I am using (Infiniti 730mb White top). Previously I made VCDs and these posed no problems.

It is not a major problem I would just like to find out what the issue could be, as under the DVD player section for the Tosh, everyone says that it will play all types.

Thanks

[VisiBill]

Have not tried XVCD, but I did use to have intermittent freezing problems with standard VCDs and particularly SVCDs on this player.

I replaced my old HP 8100i CD burner (4x max) with a Liteon 52x CDRW and the problems seems to have gone away.

By the way if you're having sound synchronisation problems with SVCD, see another thread in this forum which details my fix for this.

Bill.

[Gazorgan]

I've had that problem when the bitrate got too high. In my case it was peaking for more than a few seconds it would skip/stutter. I made some sample encodes from 2000 to 6000 for xSVCD of a scene that started slow...had 30 seconds of explosions, then went slow again. I was good up to 5000, over that it started to have problems. I think I was exceeding my the standalone players CD reading speed (that was over 32x).

I suggest doing something similiar..a 2 minute encode is good, and just burn them all as chapters with simple menus....then you have a test disk anytime you need it!

[Cole]

Hmm, interesting reading, thank you both. My CD burner is a Lite-on and the bitrate that I am using is at an average of 1700kps. I may have to play around with some of the basic VCD settings as they seemed quite stable.

Another case of trial and error me thinks!

[TheHat]

Hi, I've managed to fix the audio sych problem until Welcome to Collinwood started having probs around 3/4 through. I'm still having loads of freezing/pauses/skips when playing VCD/SVCD/XVCD's. I'm thinking of taking my machine back to Richersounds and getting a refund. I did have a LIMIT player from there which played everything, but had quality problems with it. The tosh is a very good machine but getting fed up with the problems now so back to the drawing board.

If anyone has any ideas on a cheapish multi-region, play anything player please let me know.



THE HAT

[Cole]

Seems that with experimentation I have produced a very good quality XVCD that doesn't jump - I lowered the bitrate I was using to 1600 kps and it works perfectly.

The Tosh must have an issue with sustaining higher bitrates for a long period of time.