Why VCDImager?

[homerpez]

I'm only curious... why use VCDImager again?

I have a problem (which no one seems to have any insight into) where if I encode with TMPGEnc alone, I get speedup/slowdown in the video.

...If I remultiplex with bbMPEG, it fixes the synch drift, but creates odd macroblock-spattering glitches throughout the movie.

...If I remultiplex with TMPGEnc, it has no glitches, but doesn't fix the synch problem either.

Someone told me "Don't burn your MPEG video with NERO, use VCDImager, then burn the bin. Why? Could this be my problem?

No one else seems to see these glitches but me, on bbMPEG-muxed material, so I'm now grasping at straws here...

Is this something VCDImager helps with? Or does it just make it a DAT and that's that?...

[vitualis]

If there's a problem with your MPEG, VCDImager's probably not going to help... sorry.

Have you considered the possibility that your player simply doesn't handle VBR MPEG-1 flawlessly? That is, there is nothing you can do...

Regards.

[homerpez]

It's an Apex...I would think this would make it more tolerant of VBR...

actually in this case I've narrowed down the problem (glitches) to bbMPEG, I think ... but I was sort of wondering if, maybe, Nero might be up to something, and VCDImager helps bypass it...

I figured maybe if people say to use VCDImager, not NERO, to make the image, there must be a reason. I was just curious what that reason was...

Who knows, it might help!

[hvr]

the reason is, that vcdimager creates a (more) compliant disc structure (i.e. everything except the mpeg program streams a on (S)VCD) than nero usually does.

some players require strict disc structure to work properly, others don't... that's why some players work better with vcdimager generated discs, whereas for some others it doesn't care what authoring tool you use...

[homerpez]

Thats kind of what I thought... but it won't improve synch problems on the standalone (as in video slowdown/speedup)... but at least I'll be avoiding NERO screwing up the format further...

I think I'll try that... I'm even trying to experiment with making SVCD's that fit on one 80 min CD! (Just did one, 480x480, 128k audio, and only 1080 AVG bitrate... looks as good, if not better, than any VCD I've made so far...) Someone else with an Apex said he got the glitch problem, and MPEG-2 solved it...


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