SVCD error "Explorer"-Not Responding w/ NERO 5.5.9

[alirio]

hello everyone,

I been reading the site for a few weeks now and I consider myself a rookie at VCD and SVCD, even though I've managed to create several VCDs and just one SVCD after following the steps on the awesome tutorials on this site. And let me add that all of the ones I've created they turned great with no problems, but now one SVCD is giving me problems.

let me explain my scenario first...

I have a movie in a avi file format (over 700MB) after playing the movie in media player I clicked on File and then checked the properties of the Divx MPEG-4 Video Decoder and it states DivX 3 Alpha...

After following this guide and using TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG-2, I opened up Nero 5.5.9.9 and followed all the steps from this guide to burn the SVCD.
Once I select Write To Cd and select the options like 2x (write speed for SVCD) and click ok. The pop-up screen with the complete percentage comes up and when it starts burning and after 52 seconds into the process and 1% complete, Nero seems to freeze and the elapsed time stops and I guess it just stops burning.

I Control-Alt-Del and then notice that Explorer is "not responding" and this is where I'm a little confused because after restarting my pc 3 times and trying to burn the SVCD once again I ended up with 3 wasted CD-Rs and with the same Explorer "not responding" error. I don't understand why Explorer would be tied to this...

I mentioned at the beginning of my post that I have succesfully burned one SVCD and everything went ok. So I decided to use GSpot (codec ID utility) and I opened up the avi file I'm having trouble burning and I find something interesting, the program has "N.A." on the specs for the avi file, all "N.A" on all info such as "codec used" etc...I can view all the info on any other avi file.

Does that have something to do with my error? I'm able to see the codec under Properties in media player, but unable to see it in the GSpot program.

Any info or suggestion would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

[alirio]

hey moderators can you move this topic to the "Newbie Conversion" forums, please? I should of placed in there in the first place, my bad.

Thanks I want to see if anyone there have any solutions I guess. Thanks!

[MaDmiZe]

Just a couple quick thoughts.....

You say you encoded to mpeg2 with TMPG...but mention that the program you check the avi with doesn't list the codec...You encoded the avi to a mpeg2 file ...correct? The avi no longer has any use...If your mpeg2 file is not corrupt and is fully compliant...Nero should not have any problem unless the program has been corrupted. Can you play the mpeg2 file that you just made? Did you change anything from the SVCD standard when you encoded? If Nero's check for compliancy is checked it will try to reencode to standard( and nero only encodes mpeg2 if youve added the mpeg2 plugin)....If standard is not checked it should just burn your file as is....no plugin needed, since youve already done the encode.

[alirio]

Just a couple quick thoughts.....

You say you encoded to mpeg2 with TMPG...but mention that the program you check the avi with doesn't list the codec...

thats the weird part I mean, it shows "N.A" on all the fields, but when I right click on the original avi file it says divx 3.11 alpha.

You encoded the avi to a mpeg2 file ...correct? The avi no longer has any use...

correct, but I did make a copy of the original avi file just in case anything went wrong and I'm glad I did.

If your mpeg2 file is not corrupt and is fully compliant...Nero should not have any problem unless the program has been corrupted. Can you play the mpeg2 file that you just made?

You know that's my next step, I haven't added a software DVD player on my pc to test it out, but will do once I get home tonight...so if it doesn't play then its currupted I guess, I mean it would make sense for Nero to pup-up a message instead of locking up on me and showing me "Internet Explorer" (not responding) after Cntrl-Al-Del, it doesn't make any sense you ask me...

Did you change anything from the SVCD standard when you encoded? If Nero's check for compliancy is checked it will try to reencode to standard( and nero only encodes mpeg2 if youve added the mpeg2 plugin)....If standard is not checked it should just burn your file as is....no plugin needed, since youve already done the encode.

naw man I didn't change anything I followed all the exact steps from this quide here at VCDHelp.

Well I will install a software dvd player tonight, any suggestions? I have 98SE...now if my SVCD file plays ok on my pc, what other suggestion you think I need to look into?

thanks man for all your help and input I appreciate it alot!

[MaDmiZe]

Now if your SVCD file is something like "AlirioRiverDances.mpg" and it plays fine in windows using a software player...I would try to burn it again, but make certain to uncheck "check for compliance" (or standard compliance or what ever they call it) its on the first tab after you choose SVCD. The standard for SVCD is more relaxed than VCD and you may be compliant and Nero thinks its not....so it screws up. If you have a CDRW....use that to experiment....You can always erase those...and do a permanent copy on CDR later.

And yes in a perfect world it would just say "This is wrong, do you want to...." but in the GatesWorld version it just fails, locks up and makes you start over...figuring that you'll get it right sooner or later...

[alirio]

well I guess I could try and burn it again and by removing the default checked "Create standard compliant CD" field. I just went over the guide I followed from this site and it seems like Nero places that check on there by default. It doesn't hurt to try it, do you think I should still try and play the MPEG-2 on the software DVD player even after I try burning first without that checked field?

Another thing I want to point out to you, while I was browsing the forums I seen this post by

I opened up VD and tried to open the file. Got this message

"VirtualDub has detected an improper VBR audio encoding in the source AVI file and wil lrewrite the audio header with standard CBR values during processing for better compatibility. This may introduce up to 6275 ms of skew from the video stream. If this is unacceptable, decompress the *entire* audio stream to an uncompressed WAV file and recompress with a constant bitrate encoder. (bitrate: 146.9 -+ 19.0 kbps"

When i click "ok" it opens it in vd.

And let me add to my problem that when I extracted the audio I got that exact message with possibly different numbers, but it was identical to that one. Do you think that has anything to do with my problem not being able to burn the SVCD?
And if so how can I fix it?

[MaDmiZe]

Try to play the mpg file before you try to burn again....that will tell us if the mpg file is ok...And it will answer the next question.... That problem deals with " introducing a audio skew" meaning it may end up with the audio and video being out of sync....This happens a lot with divx coded avi's when you want to convert to mpg....but if you can play it...you will be able to tell if the audio is out of sync (that can be fixed...but must be done before you burn it) and would not effect Nero in the least.....Nero doesn't know or care if its out of sync....so thats a new and different problem.

[alirio]

Yo MaDmiZe,

well I went ahead and installed the MPEG-2 codec by itself and nothing worked then I installed WinDVD 4 and not only can I view my SVCD MPEG-2 video, but I'm also able to view it with my M$ media player as well, cool huh?

and here is the best news, I tried to re-burn the svcd without the "Create standard compliant CD" field checked and walla it worked perfect. After it took like 20min writing at 2x I popped it in my DVD player and it played perfectly....YES!

thanks for all your help dude, I really appreciate it!