720 X 480 (X)vcd

[kasanova]

I have made a 2 minute trial run of ripping scary movie into a (x)vcd I set audio to 224k and the video to 2038k. I love the picture and the sound is expected but when I burn to disk the 2:02 demo burns as like 3:37 and my pioneer -333 also reports 3:37 and the seconds play really fast. In essense it is playing a 2 minute clip in 3:37 but really fast. Is this normal and also how much more disk space does 720-480 take up as opposed to say 352X240 the ntsc standard.

Thanks for any input

[Vejita-sama]

I'll assume you burned it w/ nero. Nero doesn't know how to handle timecodes/stamps correctly. It thinks that video=1150/audio=224, ie 1min=10MB. Change that it puts down a time code to reflect this. Since you increased the bitrate Nero got confused. Your DVD player is just reading the time code that nero wrote.

To fix this, use VCDImager to make a bin/cue of your MPEG, then burn that. This has the added bonus of fixing many ff/rew and goto problems that some DVD players have with nero burnt (x)SVCDs (or even xVCD)

[kasanova]

Yep, I did burn it with nere and I am going to take your advide and make a bin/cue and burn it with another program. Thanks so much for the advice