The VCDs I make are possessed by Satan.

[Greyfist]

The AVI source files play fine in Media Player.
The MPEG files from TMPGenc play fine in Media Player.
The VCD plays fine from my CD drive in Media Player.
The sound goes all over the place in my roomies Apex 703 DVD player.

I don't get it. Every step of the way works perfectly, until the step of actually getting the thing to play on a TV, at which point the sound desynchs. Since the only VCD players I have are my computer and my roomies' Apex, I have no other sources to play the discs in, so I'm confronted with one player that handles it well, and another that doesn't, and I have no clue about what needs doing to make the Apex happy with my discs.

I followed the steps, ripped out the audio into a WAV, put everything into MPEG files with TMPGenc, then burned it all onto a disc with my burner's software. No hassles, no errors, no nothing until the disc goes into that DVD player. I'm at wits end here.

[Olli]

Have you looked the player up on the player list on this site to check what kind of media brand, bitrates etc it can handle ?

[Greyfist]

Yes. The majority report no troubles, but a couple have reported the same audio drift and sudden spurts of speed in video like I'm experiencing. Nobody seems to offer any theories behind that, though, except for one person saying that the player doesn't handle variable bitrate stuff. I double checked TMPGenc, and it's outputting constant bitrate mpegs, so either that isn't the problem or something freaky is going on.

[vitualis]

What settings have you used when you encoded to MPEG with TMPGEnc?

Regards.

[Greyfist]

Everything is on default, except for the 'Full screent (Keep aspect ratio)' setting, and the VideoCD(NTSCFilm) template that I loaded, since it's at 23.976 fps. I've tried both VirtuaDub and TooLame for the audio processing, and the problem was present with both.

[vitualis]

It should be noted that not all players can handle NTSC Film VCDs properly...

Does remultiplexing your MPEG file (with for example, bbMPEG) before authoring your VCD make any difference?

Regards.

[Cornucopia]

Some of the VCD's I make are possessed by Satan, too.
I mean, they spin around and around and then all you see is green spotches!

Scott