blocky picture when playing svcd

[billp]

Good Day all,

I have read pages and pages of your previous questions and answers.
I have learned a lot.

My problem is blocky video when playing my svcd on my dvd player, I have also tried vcd, but the same block text.

My current procedure.
-connect up my digital 8 camcorder to the firewire port
-fire up ulead video studio 5 (some love it, some hate it)
-capture home movies
-save file then output to svcd format
-burn using nero

I only have a dell 500 mhz celeron. Running win xp. 13+80 gig hard drives. 256 ram. Not sure if the problem is the computer, ulead, or nero.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Yes it does take forever for the computer to render, but time is not an issue, I let her go overnight. But quality is very poor.

thank you

[mmmbeer]

I would suggest encoding using TMPG before using Nero. Myself I use Ulead MF2 because I like the tick box " do not convert compliant files". Makes it easier and no blocks/artifacts.

[billp]

Thanks for the advice,

Tried it, its a little better but still blocky.

Maybe I will try these svcd's in another dvd player to see if my current player is the culprit. Although numerous people have posted that my model plays svcds.

thanks

[Syndrome]

yeah i would suggest either another dvd player, or a friends comp with a dvd-rom would be even better. I have made dozens of SVCD at home, and they play flawless in my home pc (dvd rom) and my laptop (dvd rom).. but are glitchy and blocky sometimes in my dvd-player. SVCD are such high compression that even though your dvd-player claims it plays SVCD's it still might have difficulty reading it. I know its not the media, because it glitches/blocks at different areas everytime that i watch the movie.

so now to watch SVCD's i hook my laptop up to my tv, and us the dvd-rom and vid-out to get a flawless perfect movie to watch

my two cents.
Syndrome

[mmmbeer]

I forgot to add, encode it as VBR and set the medium as high as you can. Not too high as to have to shove onto a dozen cdr's but I usually go in around 1750-1800 for middle bitrate. I used to get them all the time on svcd's with no variable but no more.