I have problems with fooling my DVD player with SVCDs

[vtoskov]

Hi,

I did the SVCD to VCD trick everything seemed to be working fine so I burned the movie as VCD using NERO and now the CD is working perfectly in my computers CD-Rom but on my stand-alone DVD player ( Toshiba SD412V - DVD Player ) all I have is the Audio from the movie and no picture. Basically I can hear the movie but I can't see it.

I really need a fast answer PLEASE
Thanks

[Tivo Homer]

Sure it takes time, but I'd suggest re-encoding the file to a VCD format instead of monkeying with the header. It works everytime for me.

I use TMPGEnc and there are plenty of guides on this site to help out.

Good Luck.

Tivo Homer

[vtoskov]

Tivo first I'd like to thank you for your answer.

You gave me pretty good sugeestion but if I re-encode my SVCD quality movie with 480x480 resolution back to VCD quality 352x240 resolution, first I would lose the quality ,and second my whole purpose of this movie was to get it working as SVCD format on my DVD player. Also my source file was a MPEG-1 VCD format before doing the encoding, which means I didn't want to make VCD.

Thanks again I appreciate your help

[bugster]

vtoskov, first off, it sounds to me likley thay your player cannot handle this kind of XVCD (which is what it is) so you are probably out of luck there.
Secondly, if your source was VCD, I see no point re-encoding to SVCD as it will not improve quality and may even reduce it slightly.

[Treebeard]

I agree the quality wont improve going from vcd - svcd. its just impossible.

Did you remember to uncheck the "make compliant cd" box in nero.
That could cause it not to play in your dvd player

[vtoskov]

I guess you are right guys I will I really haven't seen much of improvment quality the only thing about SVCD that I like their resolution.
So i'll try folloing the same steps again making sure that I didn't make any mistakes in the process and if it still doesn't work I'll just make a VCD

Thanks for all your help guys you've been very helpful
I appreciate that

[snowmoon]

You would see a huge diffrence with SVCD if you had better source materal. You can't take highly compressed VCD and make it better by encoding it to SVCD. But if you were comming from 720x480 .avi or DVD you might see a huge improvement in quality.