Important Note regarding XviD to SVCD/ to Header Tricked

[MenderOne]

I am sure someone else has discovered this as well, but just in case, this post is intended to help ease the problems encountered by those who have converted Xvid to SVCD and then used the Header Trick on the resulting converted file.

I've discovered that when converting an XviD to SVCD, when you use the header trick on the resulting MPEG 2, (by multiplexing that MPEG 2 using TMPEGEnc simple multiplex option in the MPEG tools ) that the multiplexed file may may show a green screen when you play it on your computer (even with the correct codecs installed) or not show video at all and only sound. BUT if you make a bin out of that file anyway and burn it, turns out it shows exactly like the SVCD does (the video is fine as well as the sound) on your standalone DVD player. Go figure? I figured I'd post this for all you guys out there that have been pulling your hairs out (As I have been), when you find that using the header trick, produces an unviewable or unacceptable result when converting an XviD . TRUST me , burn it anyway, It'll work on that standalone. If other header tricked MPEG2's have worked. (i.e such as if the original source was an MPEG2) Hope this helps those frustrated trying to convert XviD's.

[grimlock_007]

That's odd, I had the exact opposite thing happen, worked fine on my computer but the green kept flickering over half the screen on my standalone......

[MenderOne]

Grimlock, chances are that that happened because your standalone does'nt take too well to MPEG2 SVCD's, did you use the header trick on the mpeg2, if so, then my only other alternative for you to try would be to encode the original (XviD) to a VCD format , then bin, then burn and try, (P.S. Burn at 2 or 4x,it works a bit better on standalones this way) sometimes it depends on the original what the end result will be, for some reason, there was only one video that I did that didn't work well, (something must have been amiss in the encoding of the original), as the same happened to me, as did to you with this particular one, so the only alternative was to encode the original in VCD and it worked like a charm with surprisingly good vid and audio, also did you check the file for corruption?

UPDATE to this thread: Another possibility (which I just discovered with the one that didn't play well) is that your source (original is PAL and you encoded it as PAL and tried to play it in an NTSC Standalone, or vise versa. I re-encoded the one that gave me problems to NTSC SVCD, then header tricked it and NOW this particular former problematic plays fine.

[grimlock_007]

I'm pretty sure that my standalone doesnt play pal, and ive been trying to convert the file to NTSC SVCD but it just wont work. im pretty sure that the header trick with an NTSC SVCD should work just fine.

[MenderOne]

Maybe I can help you, but need some info first,

Is the source an XviD? If so, did you get the latest version of TMPEGEnc 2.512? it fixes a bug reagrding error mesages of Sub-System stream to System stream not supported, download it and try it, should solve the prob with conversion