VCD Builder Help

[Huntn]

I burned my first SVCD using VCD Builder. When placing it in a Panasonic DVD player, no menu appears. But when I hit play, it does play although it plays at half speed and the sound cuts in an out in short bites.
The QT movies I used for reference in making Mpeg2s, play fine. The Mpeg2 I created using ffmpeg play fine.

Using to VCD builder to burn to Toast went without a hitch, no error messages.

So would this be some sort of error on my part or possibly a incompatible DVD player?......I'll check the list of compatible DVD players.

Thanks!
-Dave

[Huntn]

Ok, I'll answer my own post. Forget we had 3 DVD players in the house. The Panasonic played at half speed. The Hitachi said disk read error and refused to play at all. And finally the Akai, the Akai, it played just fine. But the picture quality was so-so.

So my next question- I'm starting with old betamax tapes which have alot of breakup in the image. I captured them from a betamax unit to a Canon ZR40 DigiCam. When the Canon plays the tapes, they look pretty good. Of course that is from the little viewfinder on the camera.

I'm wondering if converting these to DVD would produce a better end result considering the source material is so-so?
Thanks again.

-Dave

[smcnally]

Dave -

Based on your source material, my guess would be you wouldn't do all that much better going to DVD.

w/r/t compatibility on your 3 DVD players, checkout the "DVD Player" link right on this site (https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers).

Using the same tools (I've used VCDBuilder and ffmpegx), create a VCD and an SVCD of the same source material. Play the source (Betamax video) to a large screen and compare.


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[Huntn]

Thanks for the input!

Don't know how familar with iMovie you are (if your a Mac person), but it appears that when I change color or contrast values in a video clip and new results are in some ways worse than the original. My impression is that this is becuase the source material is of so-so quality.
-Dave

Dave -

Based on your source material, my guess would be you wouldn't do all that much better going to DVD.

w/r/t compatibility on your 3 DVD players, checkout the "DVD Player" link right on this site (https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers).

Using the same tools (I've used VCDBuilder and ffmpegx), create a VCD and an SVCD of the same source material. Play the source (Betamax video) to a large screen and compare.


S