VCD Playback is jerky in my DVD player, HELP!

[mjvgiese]

Can anybody help? Some of my VCD's are playing back jerky on my dvd player, which is an apex 600-a. All through out the movie the picture is very jerky, and it causes the sound to get off sync. Eventually it gets back to normal, and is not jerky and the sound is in sync, but then everything happens all over again, the picture gets jerky and the sound gets out of sync. It plays fine on my computer though.

One in particular I'm talking about is an XVid, and I encoded it in TMPG, version 2.59. It's 23.976 fps, and I encode it in TMPG as that.

Does anybody have any advice on how I can beat this? It makes the movie almost unwatchable!
Any help would be ever-so-very-much appreciated!!

[JamesB69]

I had the exact same problem and actually posted a few times on it with no answers. For me, this frustration ultimately led me to DVD-Burning. But in the mean time, i updated the firmware of my CD-R/W drive, updated nero, and changed from imation discs to tdk discs (dont think this was it but worth mentioning). After this they started working. One thing though, this only happened in standalone players and only on 23.976fps movies. I had a few 23.976 that worked correctly before the changes but not many

[mjvgiese]

DVD Burning would be nice, but unfortunetely, I don't have the extra cash to buy a dvd burner, , and I don't know how to update the firmware of my cdr/w drive, that's not really my area....... I'm using Sony 80min CDR, I would think those should be pretty decent, I've had very good luck with everything I've boughten that is Sony. Anyway, my Nero is pretty new, I got it late last year-( it can't be outdated already, can it!?).

Grrr!
Thanks for the advice and the reply though, I seem to have trouble getting replies to my stuff....

[JamesB69]

umm you can download a free update. What drive do you have, maybe somebody with the same drive can give you advice about the firmware

[mjvgiese]

Actually, I tried the VCD in my other player, which is a dvd/vcr combo Samsung DVD-V2000, and it worked great! It wasn't jerky at all, and the sound was right on! Maybe my Apex 600-a just doesn't like some vcd's?

Hmmm.......