Vcd Header Trick??????

[Codyduck]

Hi everyone.....any help would be appreciated.....I've tried the vcd header trick and the video plays but the audio is all choppy. Now i've done some researching on this site and found a post from someone saying that they had the same problem and put there bit rate down to 2000 max i too tried the same thing only to get the same choppy audio....I'm wondering if anyone could come up some other ideas for me....I'm using dvd2avi to frameserve and tmpg as my encoder and i set my svcd template with the standard that came with tmpg i'm using the 12i version of tmpg i'm using the 2 pass vbr setting and with a 1150 min and a 2000 max bit rate setting when i go to mpeg tools in tmpg I have used all vcd headers and tested them on pny cd-r's and i get the same problem with every vcd header...The video get's blocky when the chopy audio is there once the chopy goes the video is excellent I noticed it only happens during motion on the screen....I tested this on the first few minutes of The Matrix and in the begining where you see all the numbers the actual matrix code is basically where it all starts.....any help would be greatly apreciated if you need anymore information then what I provided please post thanks again

[marcelr]

Do not use the header trick, encode as SVCD and burn as VCD using NERO and swith OFF the 'VCD compliancy' flag. Thsi should work, it does for me.

[Codyduck]

I tried your suggestion only to have the same problem.....thanks though anything is worth a try....I noticed when I played the encoded movie on my computer I get blocks and the audio is just fine but when it is put to disc where all the blocks are is where the audio is chopy

[marcelr]

I always use the HIGHEST constant bit rate CBR possible.
The result is that your mpg file is quite large, but it has the best quality possible (480x480)
Also, burn your CD at the lowest speed. I alwaus burn it to a CD-RW before wasting CD-R's
Good luck.

[Codyduck]

I will definetly try this tomorow.......thanks for the help

[buddymann]

The VCD header trick never worked for me - but I found an easy way to convert SVCD to VCD. I wanted to do it because my DVD player doesn't let me fast forward or rewind an SVCD, it only lets me use 'play' or 'pause' functions.
Anyway, I downloaded the special version of VirtualDub which works for SVCD files.
Open the SVCD in this version of VirtualDub and it processes the SVCD so that you can work with it. It takes a few minutes to do this.
When the file is on the board you choose the settings ' Direct Stream Copy' for the audio and 'Full Processing Mode' for the video. You choose 'Compression' and choose whichever codec you wish to use. I usually choose DivX4 or 5.
You then save the file as an AVI which can take an hour or so.
After that you treat the file in the same way as an ordinary AVI and can cut it in VirtualDub or process it in TMPGEnc or whatever.
I have always had satisfactory results with this except for a couple of times when the original file had a lot of bad frames.

[Codyduck]

I tried what you said only to end up with the same result only worse....I'm wondering what bitrate you use......I used the highest one that it would allow me to use which i believe was 2520



"I always use the HIGHEST constant bit rate CBR possible.
The result is that your mpg file is quite large, but it has the best quality possible (480x480)
Also, burn your CD at the lowest speed. I alwaus burn it to a CD-RW before wasting CD-R's
Good luck."

[txpharoah]

Just a note: if you have to lower your CD-R burn speed, your burner sucks or may be close to dead. My LiteOn 16x can burn any speed on any disc, and is fine.

Also, just open the MPEG2 files directly off your SVCD. No need for all that frameserving: that was meant for DVD.

This alone may help you with the bad quality.

2520k and 480x480 or 352x480 is just fine. Many DVDs commercially made are actually 352x480 (SVHS or s-video resolution), not 720x480.

The header trick probably won't work. If you want a VCD, not XVCD, then make it 1856k at 352x480 res, and it looks good too. Not DVD, but then again, you're asking for a lower quality than DVD.

[Codyduck]

I give up.....Look's like i'm sticking with vcd's for now......i've tried everything that has been recomeded i've even try using a few tricks myself and my end result is that a toshiba sdk615 can not play svcd's at all.

[LioCraft]

Hi there,
Just a question...If I cut an MPG2 and change the type to Video CD (Non Standard)...will the cutted file be header tricked?...I need to cut a file to put it in 2 CDs & watch it in my Stand Alone DVD