Anamorphic XSVCD?

[WienieMan]

hey i just encoded a movie which is in anamorphic widescreen, but when i burn it as a xsvcd my dvd player freezes up and displayes a blocky picture. But if I just burn the mpeg2 file without formatting it as a svcd it plays fine, the only problem with this is i can't fast forward then. Can you not burn anamorphic on xsvcd? 16:9? Thanks

[DJRumpy]

Your movie is probably freezing because it's an xSVCD. If you exceed the limit of your player, this is a common side effect. Try reducing the bitrate. Are you using the standard SVCD resolution?

[WienieMan]

no it's not that, I have the Apex Ad-1100W and it can read up to 8000Kbit/s for a xsvcd and i've tested this and my movie is on 1400 CBR.

[DJRumpy]

Use Pulldown to change the DAR to 4:3 and see if your problem goes away.

[wulf109]

You did not mention what program you used to burn the SVCD. I know for example early versions of Nero(4.0) would burn SVCD but scan would not work in a DVD player.

[WienieMan]

I did set the DAR to 4:3 and the problem's the same. I'm using Nero 5.5. If I use Nero and just create a normal data cd and burn the movie that way the dvd player reads it fine. so it might be something with nero's svcd settings.

[DJRumpy]

WienieMan, what version of 5.5 (i.e. 5.5.9.0 )? Also, what settings? Did you use the built in SVCD template?

[WienieMan]

5.5.9.0 I used The default template for svcd. just unchecked standard complaint.

[DJRumpy]

When you left the 'Compliant' option checked, did you recieve an error, and if so, what was the specific error?

[WienieMan]

It just says that the frame size is wrong (720x320) which is anamorphic widescreen.

[DJRumpy]

xSVCD. Your not using any standard. Can't help you much, if at all.

I did double check on the DAR flags. SVCD does not officially support 16:9, although your individual play might.

My suggestion. Make a standard SVCD. They look fine on my 58" HDTV, I'm sure they'll look fine on yours.

[WienieMan]

Nevermind I figured it out, I think i might of forgot the DAR the first render cuz i rendered it again and it works now. Thanks anyway man i really appreciate it.

[DJRumpy]

To save yourself the trouble, you can switch the DAR using PULLDOWN.EXE, without re-encoding. Much faster.