the vcd doesn't play right on a stand alone dvd

[shamway]

i burned 5 short vcd's with nero, and made a simple menu.
when i tried to watch it on dvd, the menu had some wired green signs on it, and when i tried to see the movies, they were jumping from frme to frame and in some of them it was stuck on the first pic.
how can i fix it?

[skywize]

I don't suppose you could try creating one of your VCDs
without a menu sequence just to narrow down the problem.
Also tell us what brand/model DVD player you use.

[shamway]

i guess it wasn't clear in my first post, i burned all the vcd's on one cd. my dvd is lg DVD-3351P.
some one told me it might be because i used bitrate of 2000, is this it?

[skywize]

Oh you burned 1 VCD with multiple mpeg files.
Did you try to locate your standalone player in the
compatibility list (DVD players tab on the left side of this
page), and see if there is any restrictions mentioned in
regards to the bitrate?

Did you ever manage to burn a VCD with menu and play it back
on your player? Do single mpeg VCDs work fine?

[shamway]

well it was the first cd i burend ever.
i burn the same movie 5 times, with diffrent settings, to see which is the best.
i couldn't find my dvd in the compatibility list.

[Vejita-sama]

Well it's possible that your DVD player doesn't support VCD or xVCDs. If you player wasn't in the list we don't really know. So I would make a short test MPEG with the 'standard NTSC VCD' template and see if you can play that.

Just incase you don't know, in TMPGenc if you click on settings, advance, double click on source range. You can choose the start/stop point of your encode.

Encode 2-5min (or the whole thing, depends on how much time you want to kill) and try to play that (no menu, no other MPEGs).

[mack4]

Is there is minimum duration of film you need to burn on a VCD to mave it work in a stand-alone player?

I am having the same freezing/jerking problem and I have done everything according to this site and checked to make sure my Toshiba SD2700 is compatible. Let me know if more info needed...

Mack

[Vejita-sama]

Ok, what settings did you use in TMPGenc and what's your source material? It could be that you have the field order reversed, your source could be at something other than 29.97fps, your encoded MPEG could be interlaced, etc.

[mack4]

Ok, here we go...

System:
PIII 833Mhz
FSB = 133Mhz
RAM = 256Mb PC-133
HD = 15Gb 7200rpm ATA100 + 60Gb7200rpm ATA100
Matrox G450 eTV

I followed the guide on this site in the following fashion:
1) Using VirtualDub and huffyyuv, I captured a random television broadcast (~10 minutes as a test) at 352x480, YUY2, HuffyYuv compression, CD quality audio, and video locked to audio. (looked fine so far)
2)Using TMPGEnc's template for NTSC VCD, I then converted to MPEG1 at High Quality. (still looking good)
3) Using Nero 5.0 and TDK VeloCD 12x10x32, I burned a VCD CD-R with the same settings decribed on this site. It worked fine on my PC's DVD player (if that means anything), but would not work right on my Toshiba SD2700 (which is on the compatibility list). The video would play for 2 seconds, freeze both video and audio, play another second, freeze, play.... you get the idea.

any suggestions?