Please Help: 80 mins SVCD's Stop at 74 mins??

[clumzy]

Please help! Do any of you have the same problem?

I have tried playing SVCD's on 2 different computers with 3 different CD/DVD Rom drives using both PowerDVD and WinDVD. I've also tried about a dozen SVCD's on 2 different brands of CDR's.

The movie play fine from the beginning of the movie all the way to 1 hour and 14 minutes .. or about 74 minutes and then the CD/DVD Rom starts chugging and after abour 10 seconds it starts from the beginning of the disc.

If I move the time slider to about 1:15 or just over 74 minutes the movie plays again fine until the end of the CD.

I'm quite certain that it has to do with the 80 minute CD's since it stops at the 74 minute mark .. but I thought it may be a poor DVD drive. But I've tried it on several DVD and CD drives with the same problem.

Anyways, I'd appreciate anyone's input on this problem. THanks!

clumzy

[sommersby]

You can't fit 80min of video on 80 min cdr in svcd format, if you can then you might as well make a vcd because it will be of better quality, for good svcd quality 50-60 min of video is about MAX on a 80 min cdr. I think you are taking overburning to far, also cheap media may be your problem with that much over burning.

[clumzy]

sommersby,

Thanks for the reply. I would agree with you and come to think of it that makes alot of sense. I don't make the movie myself but I download those that are available on Usenet.

So for example a movie like Kiss of the Dragon, the first CD is only 60 minutes or so but on the display in WinDVD it says 1:14 when it stops. Similarly for a movie like LOTR it stops at 1:14:49 ... even tho there's less than 50 minutes of film on 1 CD. Another that comes to mind is A Knight's Tale. That one stops around the 1:15 minute mark even tho there's only less than 60 mins of film per CD.

Anyone else have any ideas what the problem might be? I'm also interested if others have this problem at all.

[sommersby]

does the whole video file work on your computer?

pull it off the disk if you can and see, if it does, do some editing and get it in smaller files?

[clumzy]

In fact, yes I have tried playing the files off the hard disk with smashing results. It doesn't halt at that particular part. However, on the CD it does.

I usually use Nero to burn the SVCD's that I download in .mpg format. However, they sometimes come in bin and cue format so I use CDRWin to burn those. Either way they don't coaster or give any errors.