SVCD Sound errors... :(

[jnms]

Recently got a Marantz DV 4100 OSE DVD Player...and I seem to be having problems with some of the SVCD's I have made.

I first thought it was a DVD Player problem...but I am now starting to suspect that it may in fact be the PC and SVCD authoring that is causing the problem.

I went back to a SVCD that I created last year, and this seems to be fine...the ones with the problems are my newer ones.

What is happening that that I am getting jumping sound. It seems every so often the sound just cuts off, and that starts again. Sometimes it is just once...other times it happens in spurts.

I have noticed that recently the sound on my PC when playing back some MPEG2 and a few other sound formats is actually very hissy and crackly. So could there be an issue on my PC that is causing bad encoding?

I have all the latest drivers for my system. As well as most the latest codecs. I am using TMPEC (sp?) with DVD2SVCD to encode the files.

My system is 1.3Ghz Athlon T'Bird. 512mb RAM. GeForce 4 Ti 4400. WinXP Pro. I have the latest copy of DirectX 8 installed. (not tried DX9 yet)...

Thanks for any help...

[Sartori]

Is your video bitrate 2520 kps ? outside of the video bitrate my dvd player gets choppy video and audio as well ( I usually encode audio at 192 kps to give a bit of headspace for my player) . Or have you encoded the audio at 48000 instead of 41000 ?

[jnms]

I have encoded the sound bit rate at 192 and 41000. I have tried a few various options here.

However the video bit rate has so far been at 2520 I have tried 2500 but no lower. So I will give that a go.

Also, looking around these forums I suspect that the fact that I am using NTSC avi files may be a problem. I have used the option in DVD2SVCD to encode NTSC to PAL. But that may not be working correctly. Perhaps I should use VirutalDub to encode the Video to PAL and BBEMP {sp?} to encode the audio to PAL?

Just ideas at the moment...there has to be a solution though...