pioneer 535 dvd player vcd problem

[john34235]

I own a pioneer 535 dvd player. Works great and plays many (s)vcd movies fine whether I made them myself or got them elsewehere.

The last vcd movie however has problems. I got it from the internet as a bin.cue iso file. I burned it and on my pc it plays fine using windvd.

In my pioneer however the image gets cropped to 50% the original size and it is played in the upper left corner of the screen. Very weird. I checked netnews and some users reported this if the vcd did not have the right aspect.

I used VCDGear GUI v0.02 to convert the avseq01.dat file to an mpeg to check the properties. In mediaplayer 6.4 properties I see it is 352x288 which seems fine to me. If I look further and check the MPEG Video Decoder I see this:

Picture Size: 352 x 288
Bit rate: 1450000 bits/sec
Frame rate: 23.97 frames/sec

I think the problem is the framerate. 352x288 is a PAL vcd resolution but 23,97 is an NTSC framerate. Is this causing the problem? I am not expert enough to judge

[john34235]

anyone?

[CryptKeeper]

no expert either but i just ran a test
with these specs

Picture Size: 352 x 288
Bit rate: 1150000 bits/sec
Frame rate: 23.97 frames/sec

and it jumps into the left corner too

so has to be that frame rate

*addition*
anyone else able to test/comment on this?

[john34235]

Guess I'll try converting it all to 25fps and see what happens then.

[CryptKeeper]

if your player accepts cd-rw discs
then encode a small part of it and burn it

but don't multi-session the disc or it might read it as mp3 or give you other errors during playback

then if that test runs fine
you can encode the rest of the movie to 25fps

[john34235]

I decided to convert the vcd to ntsc vcd. This only requires the resolution to be changed and not the framerate which is much easier.

I converted the dat file to mpg and then fed that into tmpgenc and made an ntsc vcd. Tmpgenc thus changed the reolution to correct 352x240 and now the movie plays fine. Lucky my player accepts ntsc discs.

[CryptKeeper]

Glad you got it fixed