VCD/SVCD PLAYBACK IS DRIVING ME INSANE PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH

[haks999]

[b] I AM GOING INSANE WITH JERKY PLAYBACK!! 3 DIFFERENT STAND ALONE PLAYERS SONY(560) CINEVISION(650) KENWOOD(440). I BURN W/ NERO 5.5 4X, TMPGEN, VIRTUALDUB,EVEN TRIED VCDEASY. TRIED ALL DIFFERENT MEDIA, AND BITRATES. ALL PLAYERS I BOUGHT GOT HIGH REVIEWS ON FORUM. I AM INTERESTED IN A PLAYER THAT CONCENTRATES ONLY ON VCD/SVCD DO NOT CARE IF IT PLAYS DVD'S. IS THERE SUCH THING, ANY TIPS OR RECOMMENDATIONS. OTHER INFO. MEDIA PLAYS FINE IN P.C. BOTH SONY AND CINEVISION PLAYED WELL FOR ABOUT A WEEK RETURNED THEM AND SAME RESULTS..WOULD YOU PLEASE BE SO KIND AS TO LEND A HAND.. THANK-YOU

[metapy]

VCD/SVCD in three easy steps:

1. STOP SHOUTING All capital is letters is concidered extremely rude and most people will not reply due to this reason alone.

2. Try a known test source, if a friend has a VCD/SVCD that plays flawlessly try that. Or download a test file and try that.
http://www.svcd2dvdmpg.com/SVCD2DVDMPG/Samples.aspx
Make sure you try different media if you are using crap media (free after rebate, no label on the surface)

3. I know for a fact Apex units tend to work well for VCD/SVCD (I owned a 1500) if people give a player a positive review they probably work well.
The Sony unit you mentioned seems to have media problems, the Cinevision seems to be postively reviewed, and the Kenwood you mention is not listed, but Kenwoods in general do not seem to well rated for VCD/SVCD

P.S. Shouting is BAD M'kay

[Coluph]

I've run into this problem and it may not be your player but the way the video is being encoded.

Try encoding the video only with TMPG (don't use Virtualdub) set it to NTSC (or PAL not sure what you are using) FILM setting, and see if that works.

I'm assuming you are capturing from a TV card of some kind. If not try burning the disks at the absolute slowest speed possible. I also found that disks written in one CD burner, may work better than the same disk written in another...so it could be your writer and not the player at all. (the disks my dvd-r write work flawlessly, but the ones my 'much too fast' cdr burner writes barely play at all and often give an error message on the player.)

Hope this helps some.