Jerky VCD

[peejay]

I want to put my home video tapes onto VCD, pretty common goal I expect. I am using VirtualDub and TMPGEnc. System is Asus Geforce 6600 capture, PIII, 512MB, 40Gig 7200 HD.

So far I have burnt four CD's using TDK blanks. All played perfectly on WinDVD.

On my old DVD player 1 wouldnt play, 2 was very jerky 3 and 4 were reasonable but not perfect.

On my friends new DVD player 1 and 2 were fine, 3 wouldnt play and 4 was jerky.

Is this a player/media issue or am I doing something else wrong? I dont want to continue to do all my tapes if I cant guarantee they will play in future on a new DVD player when I get one.

Thanks,
peejay

[TheShadowKnows]

I have made several VCD's 50+ I'm not expert yet, but one thing that you want to make sure is that you are encoding using the VCD Standard in the program that you encode with.
This ensures that the VCD's you make will work in DVD player that Claims to play VCD's.
This is what I do, and so far no problems with any of them.
I noticed that you have a PIII, what is the speed?
I had a older PIII 450Mhz that I used before I got a P4 1.7, if I used the computer while I was encoding, the video would be choppy and the qualty would be low.
Encoding video is a resource hog.
As far as the compatibility there is not guarantee that todays VCD will play in tomorrows DVD player.

[MpegEncoder]

Encoding on a busy computer will only be slow, it won't change the contents of the output file. It's just a lot of math.

[peejay]

My computer is a PIII 533. It doesnt drop frames and writes to a 40gig hard drive, I am sure that is not the proble. When encoding I shut down all other apps.
Some suggested it was a bitrate problem, that some DVD playres could not handle the bitrate but that doesnt sound right to me.
Does anyone have experience with a god brand of media that seems to work with a broad range of DVD players?
Thanks again.

[mats.hogberg]

Did you stick to VCD standard template, or did you change any settings like A/V bitrates, resolution... ? If you didn't encode to VCD specs, chanses are pretty good for the player to choke.
Also, how did you author and burn the VCD?

/Mats

[phoenixdigital]

I have had the exact same problem. The vcd in is the correct format for a VCD but for some reason they are a little jumpy on my player. On a friends player they are fine.

The resolution is correct the audio is correct.

PAL

Video:
1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1
352 x 288 pixels
25 frames/second

Audio:
224 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2


I know you will probably say it's just the player but other burnt vcd's seem to work perfectly. I am thinking it may be NERO which is what I use to burn with.

Anyone have any ideas?

[mats.hogberg]

You say "NERO which is what I use to burn with" - what do you author with?

/Mats

[drippo]

Hi Guys

I had the same problem when I play VCDs (created with the Standard VCD template on TMPGEnc via DVD2SVCD) on my portable VCD player.
Although they play fine in my stand alone DVD.

So I tried the Panasonic encoder and they play fine on the portable - except the colour seems to be drained out a little.

HTH
Adrian