Recently I've experienced problems playing three different SVCD movies on my Pioneer DV-525 standalone. When I play them the screens splits 75/25, the left 75% shows the full picture but the right 25% shows about half the picture something like an inch higher.
These three movies are all PAL, but since my standalone is Swedish and I'm using a PAL TV, that shouldn't be the problem. I've played many a PAL movies before on this setup.
Two of them have subs, so at first I thought that was the problem (I read somewhere on this site that people have reported problems with subs on this player), but the third is no-subs and yet looks just as fucked up.
Movies work fine in WMP and PowerDVD, and this is the information PowerDVD outputs:
Video Attribute :
Video compression mode : MPEG-2
TV system : 625/50 (PAL)
Aspect Ratio : 4:3
Display Mode : reserved
Source picture resolution : 352x576 (625/50)
Frame Rate : 25.00
Source picture letterboxed : Not letterboxed
Bitrate : 2.10Mbps

Apart from the bitrate, this is the same for all three movies. Now someone told me that 352x576 is something called CVD, so my question is...can someone verify that my player isn't CVD-compatible. If it IS CVD-compatible, anyone have any idea as to what else could be wrong? I appreciate any help.

UPDATE: I've checked these movies in Nero 5.5.4.0, and it finds them to be 480x576 (which as I understand it is the "normal" PAL resolution right?), and mpegprop.exe gives the same result on the one movie file I tested with it. If I wasn't confused before, I sure am now. ;(

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: sidmyr on 2001-12-11 12:26:35 ]</font>