Panasonic MPEG1 encoder problems with CD-i

[MarcinWilk]

I used to have serious problems with VCDs made with the Pansonic MPEG1 encoder and CD-i. Always after playing 2 minutes, the pictures freezed. But I have recently that the encoder creates a non-standard MPEG1 stream. After remuxing the stream with TMPEG the created VCD works perfectly well on my CD-i and the quality is really amazing. I think the CD-i is the best for playing VCDs because it delivers better picture quality than most new DVD players. What do you think?

[vitualis]

Yes, despite what Panasonic claims, even their newest MPEG-1 encoder (v2.51) doesn't actually produce "VCD compliant" streams. I'm not quite sure what's wrong, but I think it has to do with the way it is multiplexed.

As you've discovered, a simple remux with TMPGEnc, or any other VCD aware multiplexer will fix this problem.

Don't know about the CD-i thing. I generally think that a high end S/VCD player is probably the best type of player for playing S/VCDs.

Regards.

[mol3000]

vitualis, do u mean i will probobly have problems when i try to play them in my dvd player?? i just dl the new one seeing if it would work better with my system... if it has more problems.. i may as well not bother

[vitualis]

No, you probably won't have problems. This is really more of an issue with stand-alone VCD players that are more strict in terms of stream compliance. However, knowing that there is this issue is important as fixing it is so simple.

Most DVD players will probably play them just fine.

The Panasonic MPEG Encoder is otherwise a superb encoder for VCD standard MPEG-1.

Regards.