svcd GOTO

[logster]

Hi ... I know this sounds like an asked and answered question but I cannot get the GOTO feature on my dvd player to work on SVCDs I burn (apex 1500 with macrovision free firmware upgrade). It works fine with vcds and dvds.

I read this on one of your (incredibly helpul) guides.

Note! If you have Nero 5.5.6.4 or later this step is not necessary.
To be able fast forward/rewind the SVCD on your standalone DVD-Player you mustownload this scandata.dat (right click on the link and select Save Target as to download it, it is just a very small textfile). Then add/drag the scandata.dat to the EXT folder of the SVCD.

I have nero 5.5.9.0 but I still cannot use GOTO. I tried downloading this scandata.dat file and still same problem. Mind you that I CAN fast forward and reverse in SVCDs just like vcds and dvds but I cannot use the GOTO button which allows me to input a time index and have the player take me to that location on the SVCD. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am capturing video from my 8mm camcorder at 720 x 540 on a Radeon AIW card in mpeg2 and converting it to SVCD with TMPGEnc-2.56.39.143-Free. I have a HP7570i cdrw. Everything seems to work fine expect for the goto function. Please help. Thanks a lot for this site and fourm !!!

[offline]

To the best of my knowledge (and I could be wrong) the 1500 does
not support goto under svd (like many Apex models)

[vulcan4d]

I have 3 Apex 1500's, that's right....3 . "YES" the GoTO feature WORKS!!! I think in the manual it says it doesn't for SVCD's but it actually works.

When I started playing around with my first Apex 1500, I noticed my SVCD's time remaining thing was completely wrong (press display a couple times to see). Each SVCD I burned was different, one showed a time remaining of 90min, another 5min, 3min, 84min, and some had letters that just weren't numbers . This is why the GoTo button didn't work. About that nero thing, yeah I read about that too but the fix didn't work.

The only way so far that I found to make the time work properly, and the goto feature, is to use VCDeasy to burn my SVCD's. Just make sure you have a Mpeg2 in SVCD format, import it into VCDeasy, check settings and burn. VCDeasy, like the name says, is EASY and works perfetly! I am using version 1.09, not sure if there is a newer one but I don't see any reason to update.

Hope that helps.

[logster]

yeah VCDEasy did the trick !! thanks a lot !!!