Burned SVCD's in a Sony DVP-NS400D? YES!!!!!!!

[KaBoNG]

Never mind any of the stuff below...just go here, NOW!:

https://www.videohelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=75324

[Kdiddy]

As wierd as it is for me to come to Kinneera's defense..but you even say he stated that it "MAY be yet another way", that doesnt sound like a garauntee or promise to me...so before you telling someone that they are providing "bullshit", I suggest you learn to comprehend english and accept the fact that it MAY NOT work on your particular player.

[kinneera]

For the first issue, the audio sync, it sounds like it might be a framerate issue. If you encoded the video at 23.976 fps, be sure to use the pulldown.exe program on it before multiplexing it. Also make sure your audio is absolutely standard (224Kbps).

As for the final playback result, keep in mind this is a hack, and Sony's are notoriously fickle. That said, you might try using one of the elementary resolutions, such as 352x240, 352x480, 704x480, or 720x480. I probably tested mine using 352x480 (half-D1), and neglected to mention it. Odds are it won't make a difference, but it's worth a shot anyway. What you describe sounds like typical decoder failure, which is somewhat surprising if you can get the video stream past the firmware, since the MPEG decoders in DVD players will usually play anything you throw at them.

[KaBoNG]

w00 w00, I got it working using a standard 480x480 res!

I had been messing around with the SVCD samples elsehere on this site and decided to try a movie I had that was encoded as an SVCD. Grabbed the mpeg2 stream from the bin/cue image (I burned it first and copied over the mpeg - vcdgear gives me nothing but trouble), demultiplxed it with TMPGEnc 2.02, re-multiplxed it as a non-standard VCD, burned it as a non-standard VCD in Nero, put it in my Sony DVP-NS400D and IT WORKS!

Yes, it's a hack, but I'll take it! My rating on this DVD player just went up a half a notch to 8.5.

Thank you, kinneera, for coming up with this!!


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[KaBoNG]

sigh...

While I can play SVCD's that are re-multiplexed, and the video quality and audio quality are excellent, I continue to suffer some nasty audio sync problems with this technique that I haven't been able to overcome.

Have tried adjusting the sync by increasing and decreasing the audio track length. However the amount out of sync seems to vary from point to point in the final mpeg.

I don't think I have messed up on the framerate and the audio appears to be standard - here is the format of the source data:

ntsc vcd (480x480, 29.97fps), 2-pass variable bitrate, 2450kbit max, 2190kbit avg, audio: 224 kbits 44khz

One thing I did notice is while my Sony can play back these "frankenstein" SVCD's, it seems to labour quite a bit doing so. I frequently hear the drive "searching" for things while it is playing.

Unless someone can figure how to cure this audio problem, I have decided to shelve the idea of playing SVCD's on my Sony and go back to re-encoding SVCD's as 720x480 XVCD's.

This is not the best solution because re-encoding a standard SVCD stream seems to cause some faint horizontal aliasing problems in certain scenes that I haven't been able to work around - another thread needed for this I think, in a different forum. I can however make some very awesome looking DVD to XVCD rips with decent bitrates (i.e. 2400 to 3000kbits) and fit 45 minutes of video per CD which pretty much matches standard SVCD capabilities but has true 720x480 resolution - mmm, mmm, good!

[KaBoNG]

UP!!!

Fixed the audio sync problem . See here:

https://www.videohelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=75324