APEX 1500, VCD & SVCD Problems

[socialmenace]

Ok, I'm really just looking for a suggestion on what to do here:

My APEX 1500 seems to slow the disc when I play movies, and this obviously causes pixelation and freezing up, etc. Does anyone know why this is happening and if there's anything I can do to fix it without taking it back? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[eugenile]

hmm.. i have an apex 1500 and have played different types of discs on it and it played them all with no problems.. from vcds to svcds.. all burned at various speeds.. from 4x all the way to 32x.. this player played everything.. both cheap media and good ones.. i dont know what to tell you as i havnt had any problems..

have you tried burning at lower speeds or using different media. or maybe its just the way the video was encoded.. ? ¿

[El_Mero_Zooter]

Menace,
as mentioned by eugenile, try burning at different speeds, different media brands.

Have you tried downloading, burning, and playing, testing, some of the samples in the Tools, section-under Video Samples---
pick a few burn to cdrw, and see if they all/some/most play fine. If they do, and you're only having problems with certain dvd's try other, say rental, dvd's.

There's a finally a hack/firware update to the 1500's. U could try that.
I updated mine and got rid of the MV and the regions.

ztr..

[chuckwiseley]

I have the same problem with my APEX 1500. If I eject the SVCD, wait a second or two and reload the movie it plays fine. I have concluded it is not the movie but the player.

At first, I recorded the movies at slower speeds but realized while watching a movie for the second time (it had played fine the first) that the pixelation was coming from the player.

I am still trying to see if adding the paper labels to the svcds increases the likelyhood of the problem since most of the recut svcds (when I thought it might be recording speed) didn't get labels.

Interestingly I can play movies burned at 48x nicely on that player. 8)