KLH Problems I know I know

[sundi]

I know, I know, these players suck, but i'm stuck with this one in the basement because its my brothers. I want to author VCDs for it and am having a hell of a time. I have an APEX player that will play just about any VCD i throw at it, but not all the discs i made for it will work on the KLH player. It seems that some discs don't even get recognized, some start to work, but are all blocky and skippy, and some don't play but the time counter on the player skips ahead by ten second incriments as though its playing but believe me, its not. This is obivously just a bad player, but i really want to know why like 7 of my movies work and the rest are now garbage as far as this machine is concerned. I'm using sony media from now on since i noticed that all seven of the discs that work are sony's discs. I was using Nero to no avail, so then i tried VCDEasy and got a short 4 minute music video file to work. I was thrilled so i tried a longer video file (21 minutes), and the timer just went in ten second incriments without playing any video. It doesn't make sense to me, it would seem that my player just can't handel longer mpeg files, but this isn't the case. It play my old VCD of fear and loathing in las vegas just fine. Any tips on troubleshooting this problem. Thanks

[next]

not sure which klh you have but the klh-221 plays svcd just fine. it sputters and plays vcd poorly. if you have a 221 model then try SVCD and i think you'll be ok.

edit - had to edit here because i was suprised that the klh-221 was able to play svcd with no problems. i had given up on it a year and a half ago because it played vcd's poorly. recently i attempted to use it to play a svcd and was suprised that it played it great. i then tried a number of my svcd encodes and and had no problems - even higher bit rate xsvcd's. give it a shot, it's not ready for the dumpster just yet.

also - with svcd's the onscreen display correctly id's the disk as a svcd. i'm thinking that the player cannot handle the lower vcd bit rates.

let me know if it works.

[sundi]

i'm sorry, its a KLH DVD 33

[next]

well....try a higher bit rate. it just might work with the 33 as well. the dvd player report on this board claim that the 33 can handle svcd. your problems sound identical to the vcd problems with the 221.

[sundi]

i'll try it out, thanks