XVCD aka long VCD

[mtamilia]

Hello
I have followed the suggestions on the guide on how to fit a long movie in a single CD (800 MByte). Yesterday I recorded "Frequency" broadcasted by TV. I got it through Vdub and HuffyUv at 352x288 PAL stereo (Italy).
I cleaned it out of commercials, created an XVCD following the guide on the site using TMPGenc and then I created a disk using Nero.
The resulting file is precisely 800Mbyte long and was coded at 772 kbps Mpeg1 VBR 2-pass (19 hours....) as the small applet calculator suggested.
I burnt as "non standard" VCD with Nero. No problem.
If I play it through Media Player, all is fine.

However once the disk is on my DVD player (a Samsung DVD1E, the combo) the vision starts well but becomes scattering and blocky, with some "blue screen" in the middle; the disk is actually unusable with this DVD player.

Does anybody know if the problem can be:

a) this DVD player does not support Mpeg1 VBR?
b) 772 is an odd number, maybe the DVD would like 700 or 750 ?
c) I forgot some "clever" trick in encoding or mastering ?
d) I should do something to my Samsung' (firmware, code and so on)

Thank you to anybody who'd be able to help.
Ciao

[puertorican138]

I think your DVD player probably doesn't support (X)VCD's. It could also be due to cheap, bad media. :P

[johneboy]

a) this DVD player does not support Mpeg1 VBR?

Sounds most likely what the problem is..
You could try re-muxing the MPEG as SVCD.. that may do the trick

b) 772 is an odd number, maybe the DVD would like 700 or 750 ?

i dont think that DVD players really care if the bitrate is a even number

c) I forgot some "clever" trick in encoding or mastering ?

See question a. regarding remux as SVCD