Pioneer DVD Player - Never had luck

[freemchr]

Guys,

Ever since i purchased SVCD2DVD I have not had one bit of luck trying to get my converted svcd's to play on my Pioneer DVD player. It wll play a SVCD fine from a normal cd, yet refused to play properly on DVD.

The problem i have is the screen is shown only half and pushed to the left hand side of the screen. Sound and picture is clear though, but its just skewed to the left hand side.

I have never had one conversion work successfully must have wasted around 30 blank dvds..

Please tell me the best way to do this. I would love to be able to see even just one work!

[ChrissyBoy]

Have you tried the Pan & Scan option?

[freemchr]

Hi Chrissyboy.

Yes I have.. tried numerous things including that with no luck. Even tried enabling PAN and SCAN on the dvd player in the menu but no difference..

[freemchr]

Is their any other way i can do it? maybe even doing part in SVCD2DVD then something else in another program?

[andyp1]

From the Svcd2DVD site

NB: DVD-SVCDs work on around 90% of DVD players. To save both me & you some time try the Samples first if you have never played DVD-SVCD on your player before.

Have you got one of the 10% that doesn't work.

I suppose the other way would be to re-encode to DVD Mpeg2 .

If you have wasted a load of discs it might be a good idea to buy a DVD-RW disc to test on.

Good luck

[freemchr]

From the Svcd2DVD site

NB: DVD-SVCDs work on around 90% of DVD players. To save both me & you some time try the Samples first if you have never played DVD-SVCD on your player before.

Have you got one of the 10% that doesn't work.

I suppose the other way would be to re-encode to DVD Mpeg2 .

If you have wasted a load of discs it might be a good idea to buy a DVD-RW disc to test on.

Good luck

What would be the best way to re-encode to mpeg2?

Is that possible? Should i try with TMPGenc?

[andyp1]

Absoluteley . Just open TMPGenc select What type of DVD of the wizard and use the SVCD as your source.

[madmuppet]

my advice would be to simply ditch that pioneer piece of rubbish and buy a cheap dvd player that plays everything as 99% of them do now and only cost around £40

[Tihomir]

Hi !

I have the same problem with Pioneer 535 model. It plays fine, it gives nice picture and sound but only with standard formats, no chance to use any patched or "masked" mpeg in producing VCD, SVCD, DVD. I use my Pioneer for standard compliance check.
Other DVD player Quadro 120 (paid 50 $) plays everything, even "dirty" DVB mpeg2 without reencoding and saving directly on DVD (or CD) without authoring. It recognises even opened RW CDs and DVDs without problems.


Regards
Tihomir