I am a very frustrated home movie user trying to get DV home movies onto SVCD rather than accepting poorer quality of VCD. I have an encoding problem (I think) to achieve ff/fr & other PBC on my disks. DVD player is Philips 703 with updated firmware. Plays SVCD stream nicely but haven't checked on any time limits for ff/fr yet - other problems are bigger. Apologies for the long item..

Scenario is:
* DV captured & edited with Pinacle DV with a 53 minute video split & saved to 4 avi files (DV Video) to manage file sizes
* the 4 avi files batch encoded to standard SVCD template with TMPGEnc with 2pass VBR (max 2400, Min 400, Av 1620) with sharpening then joined with TMPGEnc
* TSCV 7.2.2 to cue/bin (with 'update scan offsets') then burned cue with CDRwin

Outcomes are varied:
* happy with picture quality
* no ff/fr, chapters generally work
* error message on TSCV log as follows
scanning mpeg sequence item "sequence-1" for scanpoints...
APS' pts seems out of order (actual pts 0.693344, last seen pts 2808.893356) -- ignoring this aps
writing track 1 (ISO9660)...
'update scan offsets' option enabled for the following tracks!
writing track 2, MPEG2, PAL 2/3 D-1..etc etc etc
finished ok, image created with 320948 sectors [71:19.23]

Having achieved a good quality video but no ff/fr I tried demux with TMPGEnc & remux with bbMPEG (selecting update scan offsets with bbMPEG) and then using TSCV to send to cue/bin (again with update scan offsets) Same result but different error message:
scanning mpeg sequence item "sequence-1" for scan points...
mpeg scan: pack header code )0x000001ba) expected, but 0x000001b9 found (buflen = 4)
...PEM (program end marker) found instead of pack header; should be in last 4 bytes of pack
bad packet at packet #322687 (stream offset 74992458 -- remaining 4 bytes of stream will be ignored
writing track 1 (ISO 9660)... the rest is then the same

Now being totally annoyed, I tried the original method with only one of the avi files, approx 16 minutes long.
No error on TSCV log, ff & fr working well (4X, 8X & 32X) Everything seems fine (one instance of sync problem when stopping ff). Cannot blame DVD player yet & now assume an encoding/authoring issue. Why does it seem so difficult to get approx 1 hr DV tape onto one CD...

Any suggestions very welcome.

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mdez

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: mdez on 2001-09-17 23:41:37 ]</font>