Audio is skipping on SVCD....suggestions?

[cgreer00]

I have a new Apex 1100W and while it plays VCDs perfectly, the SVCD that I burned is having problems. The audio skips every 4 or 5 seconds, even though the picture is fine. What is causing the audio to skip, and what can I do to fix this? I am using the SVCD NTSC template that came with TMPEG. Thanks a lot!

Chris

[anti-alias]

Cut the bitrate in half ... if it stops skipping, your player might not be keeping up w/ the bitrte. If it still skips, there is some other problem

[cgreer00]

I lowered the Bitrate to 2000, but the thing still skips like crazy. It is pissing me off to no end, because I have wasted so many CDs trying to get it to work. I thought the Apex 1100W was supposed to be great at reading SVCDs? I am using TMPEG and a WMV as a source file. Is the source file what is screwing it up?

[anti-alias]

Hmmm ... just shooting in the dark now but a few things I might try:

Burn on CD-RW, some players seem to like this media type better than CD-R (plus you'll stop wasting disks). However, if video is fine, I doubt this would help.

The only other thing I can think of is to seperate out your audio, turn it into a 44Khz .WAV file and then use that as the audio source when using TMPGenc to transcode.

I assume this plays fine on your PC, however, so that probably won't help much either.

Actually, here is a better idea .. burn a sample SVCD from this site! That way you know it isn't some goofy encoding problem.