ok on pc, stutters on standalone vcd player

[Dufferoon]

I have cut my first (and second, third....) VCD but I have a problem. The disk plays ok on my pc, but stutters (pauses about once a second) on a standalone vcd player.

Iam using:
- Aver TV studio card with Avertv capture software
- TMPGEnc (but I also tried avi2mpg on some sections) to convert to mpeg & join
- VCDeasy to burn

I have a P200 MMX 128MB ram, 20 GB HD with a Philips pcrw804 burner.
There are no issues with cdrdao or aspi, I already tried them.

OK so I dropped a few frames on the capture but does it really make that much difference? According to Windows Media Player my file runs at 24,97 fps as opposed to the correct rate for PAL (25 fps).

I also tried burning directly from the "Sample PAL VCD" and most of that is fine (though half the South Park trailer was missing - even more wierd!)
Any suggestions? Anybody? AAARGH!

[TheInformer]

Try this:

Start up TMPGEnc, go to the File menu and choose MPEG Tools.

Do a "simple demultiplex" of your MPG file (to split the video and audio up), then do a "simple multiplex" of the resulting .m2v file to put the two parts back together.

Use VCDEasy to make a VCD and try it.

I had the same problem with my high bitrate MPEG-1 files, but doing the multiplexing after the original MPEG file was created solved the problem.

[Dufferoon]

Thanx!

After I demultiplexed my file I found that the video file was 46 minutes long and the sound was 49 minutes long (according to Win media player).

Uh-oh!

I did the same on the pre-joined portions of mpeg and found that some of them have 192kbps sound and some have 224kbps sound!

Which one is the standard for vcds and how can I change the rate?
(I think I might have to start a new thread here.........)

[TheInformer]

Hmmm.

Every time I have encoded a high bitrate MPEG-1 file with TMPGEnc, then de- and re- multiplexed the output file, I have had good results. Don't know what to tell you with those errors

[Dufferoon]

Well for the sake of anybody who's interested, this is how I sorted it!

The correct rate is of course 224kbps

I redid the nonstandard MPEGS using Virtual Dub to get WAV files, then re-encoding using the original MPEG file for video and the sound from the WAV file.

Very longwinded but it did WORK!

And I won't make the same stoopid mistake again.