Pioneer DV 440 and SVCD???

[kmadden17]

I bought a DV 440 recently, and on this website it says it plays SVCD, and in the manual under SVCD, it lists other pioneer players as being able to play svcd, but not the DV 440.

Does anyone here have experience with svcd and the pioneer dv 440? Did it work???

[DarkLox]

yep it works

[paulb]

I have the 440 also. The 440 will play SVCD's as long as the bitrate you encode is <2500. Actually, I have found that 2300 seems to be the best for me. Over that, and you have skips and sound sync problems.

Paul

[Vejita-sama]

Whoa! So you saying the 440 can't play the SVCD standard of video=2520kbit/s and audio=224kbit/s (ie. 2744kbit/s total)! Can anyone confirm???

[adamv]

Sorry to ask this but I've been trying to find where in Nero 5.5 I would change the encoding bit rate to 2300??? I've had no luck. Also I was told to change the audio bit rate too. Where would I do this??? Any help would be appreciated as I have spent countless time and numerous cd-r's trying to figure this out.

Thanks,

Adam

[piepkoekoek]

Actually the DV440 CAN do 2700kbit/s with 128kbit mono (layer II) sound and 2600kbit/s with 224kbit stereo!

Did the following tests and all worked flawlessly:
MPEG1: 704*576 2700kbit 128kbit mono XVCD No errors.
MPEG2: 480*576 2700kbit 128kbit mono SVCD No errors.
MPEG1: 704*576 2600kbit 224kbit stereo XVCD No errors.
MPEG2: 480*576 2600kbit 224kbit stereo SVCD No errors.

All video fragments encoded at 25fps,CBR and CQ_VBR with TMPGEnc. (still has some heavy macroblocks on fast motion)
Also tested with LSX-MPEG 3.5 CBR/VBR(softer picture, allocates more bits to high motion areas, worse background picture encoding)

MPEG1/2: above resolutions at more than 2700kbit/video 128kbit mono results in heavy stuttering of sound, picture is ok.
It seems that 2824-2828kbit (video+audio) is the maximum this player can take.

Do not try to encode at 704*576 in MPEG2, you will have to lower the video kbit to about 2000, or heavy stuttering will occur.

Do not try to encode in interlace, result is an unwatcheable video. Heavy picture artifacts.
Oh well, use the deinterlace filter...

Hope this helps.

Cheers

[diepvien007]

This player has the same problem as the DV444. See post for solution.
https://www.videohelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=71849&forum=8&10