XVCD playing on a Panasonic

[BFORD18]

I recently purchased a Panasonic RV31. When I play an XVCD it shows a black screen but I can hear the sound. I read up on this player in the DVD List and someone said to get theirs to play they jog the dial on the front of the DVD player and it will play the rest fine. This works and I assumed that was just the way it was going to be. Then I downloaded a 2 minute clip from Shrek and just burned it without encoding it and it work without having to jog. I can reencode the same clip to the same specs throught TMPGenc 2.02 but then it won't play without having to jog. Is there a setting in TMPGenc that I am overlooking.

Thanks in advance

[BFORD18]

Here is a quote from the DVD Compatibilty List:

"This is a great DVD player that can play XVCD's with no problems at all so long as the original Mpeg files contains the correct VCD standard header"

What is meant by this.

[dmwierz]

BFORD,

I have this player and have made numerous XVCD's with no problems whatsoever. What bit rate and program are you using when you render the MPEG? I use TMPGEnc at 2500 and 720x480 and it works great. What are you using to burn the XVCD? I use Nero 5.5.6.4

[BFORD18]

I use TMPGenc to encode and Nero 5.5.5.1 to burn. I encode at 1700 at 720x480. Since my first post I tried encodeing the same Shrek clip down to VCD standard then back up to 720 x 480 and it played right away without the black screen but there was a loss in quality so that isn't really a solution. I will try at 2500 kb/s but I did try 2100 and the audio started to crack. Dmwierz, what do you set the Stream Type to in the System tab? What can I do to the audio so it doesn't crack at higher bit rates?

[kejl89]

When I tried encoding at 720X480 the picture got all screwed up and there were like large blocks over portions of the screen. Does anyone know why this happens? I was using 2-pass VBR if that makes a difference. Although I tried it with just a constent bitrate too and the same thing happended. What am I doing wrong?