Apex 660 doesn't play the last few seconds on SVCD

[woodduck]

My Apex 660 player doesn't play the last few seconds (about 5-6 seconds) of the last chapter on the SVCDs I made. I have no such playback problem with PowerDVD on my computer. I have tried Nero, VCDImager, different encoding setting, GOP structures for example on TMPGEnc, etc. Has anyone experienced this problem with their Apex 660 player and found a solution for it besides extending the movie with "black blanks" at the end? Your help is very much appreciated?

[wildcatfan]

my 703 does it as well, but just the last 3 seconds. Easy way around it is to just make a 5-10 sec black trailer and join it with the mpegs before you burn them.

Michael

[statuspending]

im not sure if our problems are identical, but my 660 freezes the last frame of every track before continuing to the next one. perhaps it drops a few seconds to... i can't tell since i still don't have mpeg2 files working with winblows

[woodduck]

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On 2001-07-26 20:48:51, statuspending wrote:
im not sure if our problems are identical, but my 660 freezes the last frame of every track before continuing to the next one. perhaps it drops a few seconds to... i can't tell since i still don't have mpeg2 files working with winblows

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statuspending
I'm not sure if you're using Nero. Nero adds about 5 seconds delay in between chapters or tracks (mpeg files). Fortunately, you can change the delays. After adding the mpegs files to SuperVideo# window, right-click on each file and select Properties. One of the fields is the delay settings.

[statuspending]

HARDCORE!

now that you mention that, i seem to recall seeing that 5sec there. awesome.

how about vcd imager? i shouldn't have problems with that one either should i?

thanks

[woodduck]

I have only used VCDImager once as an evaluation. At that time, I only have one track. Although, VCDImager added an empty track with 0 time at the beginning. When I played it on my Apex player, it jumped from the first track to the next almost immediately. But, that test is not very conclusive. You should try it out.