TMPGEnc and SVCD Audio help please

[bodhammer]

I'm using TMPGEnc 2.01.30.115, Nero 5.5.5.1, Toolame .2h, Premiere 5.1c, Win98SE, Philips DVD712AT.

My Source is DV captured with a Canopus Raptor and editied with Adobe Premiere 5.1c. I have tried this with both Raptor AVI and Divx 4.11 at DV resolution and framerate.

I was able to make a VCD 2.0 disk that plays fine using the standard VCD NTSC template. Using the Super VCD (NTSC) Template I'm able to see the video but I get no audio on the Philips DVD player. If I just double click the mpg file, Windows Media Player will open it and play the sound but no video (I know that I don't have a SoftDVD player). It previews in TMPGEnc but no sound.

I have tried exporting the audio from Premiere in both 8 and 16 bit Stereo format and I also tried using Toolame for audio in TMPGEnc.

If I open the Avseq01.mpg file that Nero wrote with VirtualDub 1.4.7 I get "MPEQ Import Filter: pack synchronization error". The file in nero says it't the right length (4 min.) but the timeline shows 8 minutes.

What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Bod

(also posted at TMPGEnc BBS)

[bodhammer]

Just an update:

I made SVCD disks with both Nero and VCDEasy

I tried conversion with AVISynth from Premiere 5.1C -> TMPGEnc 2.01 directly

I made a SVCD from the test files using VCDEasy

My Philips DVD712AT will NOT play ANY svcd audio! VCD 2.0 disks play fine.

[bodhammer]

One more update!

I saw that there was an update to TMPGEnc (2.02) and the bug fixes mention that it "Fixed bug : valid MPEG file was not sometime produced in SVCD setting. " so I tried it again.

I used Adobe Premiere 5.1c ->AVISynth with video to AVI Wrapper and Audio to AVISynth. I let it send out straight Canopus format DV. On TMPGEnc I used the straight SuperVideoCD (NTSC).mcf template. I burned with VCDEasy.

I had the DVD712AT boxed up to return so I hooked it up to a spare TV rather then hooking to the main TV which is a pain (don't ask) using only the Analog audio and composite video. IT PLAYED FINE! I then fished what I though were coasters out of the trash that I had made with TMPGEnc 2.01 AND THEY PLAYED FINE!

My conclusion is that the DVD unit is sick and that the TMPGenc recipe is fine. This particular DVD won't play SVCD audio in digital, analog was fine, VCD audio is fine in analog and digital.