DVD player won't recognize dvd made from (s)vcd2dvd

[Bastard]

Ok,
While being my first post, I assure you, I have searched this forum for about two weeks as I usually hate when people ask questions without doing so first, however, I was not able to find the answer to my problem.
My problem is this:

I have an svcd (two disks, one movie) that I would like to put on a dvd so that I don't have to change discs during the movie.
I have tried to accomplish this using (s)vcd2dvd, I put both bin files into the same directory, right click on the directory and choose (s)vcd2dvd and then the program opens, I click on 1stheader (have tried entire file with no differemce in outcome) and 352 for the horizontal resolution, I click on BIN--->ES, leave the file suffixes alone, click on svcd and then click start.
Once this finishes, I open maestro, import the four assets, create two movies and one menu with one button, assaign the assets to the movies and menu (using a psd for the menu) set the dvd to start with the first movie and at the end of the first movie, continue to the second movie (second half of movie). When I have all of that, then I click on the compile menu and it goes through and compiles and creates the vob files. I burn with nero and all is well, i test it on my pc and it plays great (using windvd). but when i put the dvd in my dvd player (Sony, DAV770), it tells me "can't play". I know it isn't the dvds because the player can read them when i use dvdxcopy from an original dvd, but I can't help to think there are some steps I am missing, some very basic steps I'm sure but am becoming very frustrated.

If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.

[ChrissyBoy]

Oi Bastard! <-- always wanted to say that.....

Firstly, in your procedure i notice you don't re-patch your vobs... worth a try. Secondly, alot of people say Nero is hit & miss when burning DVDs - have you had success burning VIDEO_TS > DVDR before? Thirdly DVDxCOPY produces 'proper' DVDs. What you have produced with SVCD2VDVMPG & DVDMaestro is a DVD-SVCD. Not all DVD Players will play that. Most will but those that will not play SVCDs are unlikley to play DVD-SVCDs...

A few things to be getting on with. I suppose, failing that, we need to know if anyone has had issues/success with that player. Could you try a mates player also?

CB

[Bastard]

Chrissyboy,
Thanks for the quick response, I have used nero to burn svcd's onto cdr's before with success. I have also tested these on an apex 1500 dvd stand alone player without success.
As far as Nero goes, it is the only thing I have used so far, is there a better alternative out there?

Thanks for the quick response Very appreciated!

[Bastard]

Chrissyboy,
Ok, I finally got it working in my stand alone player. It turned out that it was nero. I used movie factory 2 and the movie plays , though the audio is in sync, it is a tad bit choppy, not sure how to cure this, but I will search.
Anyway, I just wanted to give thanks to you for responding so quickly.

[ChrissyBoy]

Is DVDMF2 reencoding? My advice would be to use your old method (Maestro) to produce VIDEO_TS folders & use either RecordNow or Gear to burn...

CB

[dhluke]

Ohh... Let's use this topic....

I put 11 episodes (SVCD) on a DVD using (S)VCD2DVD, and everything went smoothly.... Follow the guide -- repatch and all... But I did something stupid... I didn't calculate the size of the episdoes very well and I overshot the DVD by 10MB... YES 9,700 bytes!! I couldn't even overburn... stupid programs... Anyways -- I used DVD Shrink to make the last episode smaller and let the others alone...

So final output was 4.37G... Use Primo to burn it... Put it on my Pionner DV525 and choose ep 1, the picture was 480 480... It wouldn't resize, and the sound was skipping every 2 seconds... like it play 2 seconds then freeze then continue....

So I said... Hmm, pioneer doesn't support DVDSVCD... so let's try it on my Sony DVP-NC600 and whoooo full picture... but then... WHERE IS THE SOUND!! hahah... it was funny.... There was no sound for some reason...

I should give it another try I guess. And this time I shouldn't use DVD Shrink to re-encode if the file is too big but rather re-encode and do the whole process again...

It was probably my fault that the DVD didn't play... but I thought I might just post it here and see if anything like this has happen to anyone before...

dhluke

P.S. DVD works great on comp

Edit:

I've decided to give it another try on my pioneer and I fixed the sound by chaning the settings in the AUDIO OUTPUT... So I guess the resolution of the video is the problem now...