SVCD glitch but VCD OK-DVD player?

[boyks]

Hi all, have in the past successfully converted footage from my DV camera to VCD for viewing on my DVD player. Here are the specifics of the setup. Panasonic DV camera. Capture with Ulead VS4 thru firewire. Render movie in VS4. Convert to MPEG with TMPEGenc PLUS (2.5 I beleive). Burn with NTI software. DVD player is a RCA 5240P.

Now the problem occured when I tried to graduate to SVCD from VCD. What I do with the movies, is since I have a bunch of short clips, is start with a black screen with a title, fade into the clip, and fade to black at the end of the clip. This makes it much easier to watch when complete. My VCDs are fine. Now, my first SVCD was fine until the end. When it starts to fade to black, the Dvd player cuts it off, and starts the next clip. The time on the clip is 4:50 and the DVD player will stop playing it at 4:46. Now I'm pretty sure it is my DVD player since it worked on a freinds flawlessly (a JVC).

SO my question is: is there anything I can do in TMPGenc to try and remedy this? I have tried the source range. Or am I screwed here simply because of the way my DVD player plays SVCD?

Thanks for any replies.

boyks

[Ejoc]

Not too sure, I have the exact same DVD Player, and I dont have problems with the end of clips being cut off. It might not have been authored correctly when put on the CD-R.

I would suggest playing the mpg in WMP, or some other player on your computer and make sure the entire clip was encoded, but if its showing up on someone elses DVD player, then its most likely all there.

I've had trouble with the player when I load multiple mpgs into VCDEasy, and use chapters to navigate. Im not sure about the program you use to take the mpg's and put em on the CD-R, but with VCDEasy there are time-out settings you can adjust for when you have to goto different tracks, which can take a second or so to load on that DVD Player.

You could also merge all the mpgs into a single mpg, navigating between the different clips will be a slight pain, you would have to set up chapter points for each clip, but that would fix it, and it'd be a fix that works the same on all DVD players that support SVCDs.