SVCD image only on left side of screen?

[dcopley]

Hi everyone -

Trying to make my first SVCD from a Quicktime movie generated by iMovie. No matter what size the MOV file is (I've tried 480x480, 740x480, 640x480), the SVCD plays back on my DVD player with the full frame squashed into the left 2/3 of the screen and a black bar on the right side. I'm using the SVCD "quick preset". Anyone got any ideas for me?

Thanks -

Devon

[RastaPiggy]

It cetrainly is a problem with your DVD player, since I also use the SVCD quick preset (allong with a whole bunch) and I don't experience problem of this sort.. you might want to e-mail the company wich made your DVD player

[major]

You can find here player compatibility information.

[dcopley]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. The problem definitely is NOT my DVD player. It's a Panasonic DV-C503 which everyone reports to be very compatible with VCD and SVCD. Plus I just downloaded the VCD .BIN image and burned it with Toast and that works just fine. Unfortunately I can't use the SVCD sample on this site in Toast. Can anyone point me to a Toast-ready SVCD MPEG that I can use for testing?

Any other ideas as to what might be going on?

Devon

[CrumCon]

If the movie played well on your PC (without a black border on the right side) then your DVD player is the problem.

[dcopley]

I'm on a Mac and I don't have a decoder so I can't check it there. I'll see if I can find another DVD player to check it on. But the word on my player is that it's very compatible; I don't think that's the problem.

Incidentally I just successfully burned a VCD (more or less - audio sync isn't great) ... the problem is only with SVCD.

Devon

[major]

How are you burning your SVCD?

[dcopley]

I'm using the "Quick Preset" for SVCD in ffmpegX, then dragging the MPEG file into the Video CD window of Toast Titanium 5.2.

[major]

No, Toast Video CD window can't burn SVCD. You must use the "Author" as SVCD tool to create two .img files out of the .mpg file, and burn those two .img files on Toast XA Multitrack window.

[dcopley]

THANK YOU! That's the piece of information I was missing. Works great now.

D