SVCD and Apex and CD-RW

[AP Enterprises Ltd]

I'm trying to make a perfect SVCD and using a CD-RW as a test disc on my Apex AD-703 (3-disc changer) so I don't have to toss any CD-R's.

My question is, does using a CD-RW for a SVCD alter playback in any way? Like does it cause video to stagger or slow down? Or is it just my DVD player that is making it do that?

The SVCD plays fine in my computer's CD-RW drive via PowerDVD (3.0). But when I play it on my Apex, it get's all slow and it cuts off the first 2 seconds or so of video and audio and totally cuts off the last 3 seconds of video and audio (it even does this in PowerDVD so it must be the way it was made).

Anyway, I am using the following:

Premiere 6 --> TMPGEnc --> demuxTMPGEnc --> muxBBMPEG --> create bin/cueVCDImagerGUI --> burn cueNero

[AP Enterprises Ltd]

P.S.

The clip is only 9 seconds long... hehe...

And my DVD player perfectly recognizes it as a SVCD and it says the following which I don't know what they mean:

PBC
350 H.Clarity

Another problem I think it might be is that my bitrate is too high? I set it for 2700kbps max and 224kbps audio, so that also might be it...

[AP Enterprises Ltd]

*bump*

[VidGuy]

Not sure the bitrate should be a problem. I've had problems with crappy quality CD-Rs and CD-RWs where I will get problems, and if I go burn the SVCD on a higher-quality CD-R or CD-RW, the problem goes away.

Also, I'm not real familiar with Apex, but if it wasn't specifically made for CD-R and CD-RW, there will be some brands it likes and some it doesn't, and you may just have found some it doesn't.

I assume you're adding the scan data during the BBMPeg muxing.... If not, you should.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: VidGuy on 2001-07-11 11:49:36 ]</font>

[ntserver545]

My Apex-703 will play back svcd's at 5 mbit birate with no problems using the cdrw or cdr no mater what brands cd are!

[AP Enterprises Ltd]

Thanks for the responses.

Hmm... I guess I'll try to use a longer clip and see if that fixes the problem. Yes, I am using the scan data during the bbMPEG muxing.


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