all apex 1500 users, please help...

[awishstar]

I have a apex 1500, toshiba 2800 and a pioneer 503 DVD players. The apex and pioneer always skipped near the end of the VCD or SVCD no matter what brand of CD. The toshiba played the same VCD perfectly.

Does anyone know what type of media that they are using works for the Apex?

Please help because I can't find a solution anywhere. Everyone in here seem to praise Apex and know them pretty well, so can someone help me? Thank you very much. My wife would be very happy too.

[Barnabas]

All of my Apex DVD players will skip on files that were recorded on my ATI All in Wonder, while my Pioneer plays the same file great.

[Gai]

None of my files have skipped, regardless of the media. This holds true for VCD, SVCD, and DVD+R (now that I've got that little problem sorted out).

[awishstar]

Gai,
Can you care to give a little bit more info? How do you create your VCD & SVCD? What burner? I just don't know why mine does that. Please help! Thank you.

AwishStar

[Gai]

1. Rip VOBs with Smartripper using whichever mode you like.

2. Use DVD2AVI to extract a .wav file and create a .d2v so TMPGEnc can process the VOBs.

3. Load the .d2v and the .wav into TMPGEnc and encode at 2-pass VBR, highest quality motion search, with an average bit rate of 1150.

While I've moved onto DVD+Rs now, I used to use an HP CD-Writer Plus on my old computer. I author the VCDs with VCDEasy and have burned them to Memorex, Verbatim, and other types of CD-Rs.

[turbodood]

Highest quality motion search. Dude thats slow, most have a fast pc. I've never use any higher than normal --- thats good enough, and really still slow. I've comparied them, rarely notice a difference. Have to go below normal before it gets bad.

[MaDmiZe]

If they only skip near the end of the VCD, I dont think that it is a media or a encoding problem....You would have it all through the VCD. More likely the unit starts to heat up and has more read errors as it does....My APEX 1500 starts this if the movie is much over 2 hours, I am thinking of increasing the space between it and other components, and perhaps installing a cooling fan. Does that sound reasonable to anyone else?? Or am I a techno freak??