Pioneer 343

[Mordant]

To anyone who is making SVCDs/VCDs for their Pioneer 343...

When I make xvcds with higher bitrates my Pioneer display says something like PBC and does not show time.

When I encode xvcds with a higher resolution (352x480) I end up with the movie playing in a small box on the screen.

Using TMPGenc or CCE with TMPGenc as frameserver.

Help?

[SiCN]

352x576 (i have mostly PAL) works fine for me, are you sure you did anything right? It will show PBC PLAY on the Pioneer as soon as you put a VCD/SVCD/X(S)VCD in it. That's normal. PBC, btw., stands for Playback Control and simply put it means that you can forward and rewind etc. Good tip: Read the manual of the player. It says something about VCD here and there.

The only problem I experienced with my Pioneer is, that it has it's fair share of problems with high bitrate VCDs.

[sue denim]

Hi!
Just to add my bit .....

I'm having probs with my new DV-444 - seems like high bitrates are messing it up too!

Sue xxx.

[Mordant]

Is there a way to have the time displayed instead of PBC?

If I'm making an xvcd with a resolution of 352x480 and bitrate of about 1800, are there any special settings I need to change in TMPGEnc or Nero before burning so that I don't end up with the small box display?

Should I choose 'standard vcd' 'non-standard' or something else?

[havaham]

Is there a way to have the time displayed instead of PBC?

YES! Instead of pressing play (&gt press track forward (>|)

Found that out by accident...

[patrickm]

the reason they show in half the screen is probably because the SDE flags are set improperly. if you did this by capturing in realtime MPEG, you can fix it with the 'fix12c' program (search the forums, i've explained this many times). otherwise, try and choose the correct aspect ratios for both source and destination in TMPG or whatever encoder you use.

[ktnwin]

To get rid of the PBC and see the time displayed, I push the numeric key "1" on my Pioneer DV-343 remote control (as if I want to play track #1).

The track number 1 is display along with the play time.
However, the play time only match with 1150kbps (VCD bit rate). That means for XVCD encode at higher bitrate, the time counter will advance faster than your clock. For example, for XVCD at CBR 2300 kbps, the Pioneer DV-343 will advance the time counter twice faster than real clock.

This strange phenomena does not happen for VBR SVCD.