vcd header trick on high bitrate xvcd

[NEO14]

Hey guys,
I made a one disc xvcd of The Matrix using a high bitrate. My panasonic dvd player doesn't like vcds with high bitrate, so the vcd skipped alot. I tried to use the vcd header trick on the xvcd but the file size turned out to be much larger than the original xvcd. What do I do. Thanx.

[ghoster]

the bitrate can't be that high if its on one cd. my guess is your problem its a non stantard vcd and thats why you are having problems..

[NEO14]

The bitrate is vbr 600-1800 mpeg1 352x240. The panasonic has trouble with high bitrate non-standerd vcds. When I remux the non-standerd vcd as a regualar vcd, the file size is much larger. can you help me?

[vitualis]

There is no "header trick" for XVCD. XVCDs by default use the VCD header!

If you mux it using the VCD settings, all you end up doing is screwing up the multiplexing. Just keep it as it is (or remux it as MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard) with TMPGEnc -- 2.59 may have problems, use 2.58 or below).

If you player cannot handle the higher peak bitrates, then, there is nothing you can really do about.

Regards.

[Conquest10]

600-1800 is not that high of a bitrate. have you checked that you have the right frame rate?

[NEO14]

yeah, the framrate is ok. I re-encoded it with 600-1150 bitrate. It plays fine. The panasonic rv-31 is a screwy player when it comes to high bitrates. I have used the header trick on svcds with great quality. The matrix one disc vcd I made looked so good, everyone I showed it to couldn't tell the difference from the dvd. Its just I can't play it on my dvd player. Thanks for your help.