SVCD and Toast

[cluth]

I encoded a DivX video to SVCD format using the SVCD NTSC preset in ffmpegX. Per major's website, I dragged the two .img files into Toast's XA Multitrack mode and butned the movie.

Here's the problem: it's a 23 minute movie, but Toast shows the total time as being 46 minutes (exactly twice the original). My supposedly SVCD-compatible DVD player (Panasonic DV32) also says it's 46 minutes and plays the movie at half speed (in fact, if I fast-forward at 2x, the movie plays almost normally!).

Am I doing something wrong in the encoding or something? Like I said, I'm using the SVCD NTSC preset. I'm also using Toast 5.2 (not 5.2.1 or whatever's newer).

Chris

[cluth]

Er, that DVD player model is a DVD-RV32 (computer screwed up when I was typing it).

[major]

If the disk image play fine on VLC then it's your player fault. User reports seem to require a header trick to play SVCD on your player.

[cluth]

OK, disk image plays fine in VLC, so that's not the problem.

I do still wonder, though, why Toast thinks it's twice the length of my movie, just like my DVD player does.

I read through the post about the RV-32 and then followed a link in that thread to another thread about the header modification trick, but they're all talking about Windows software. How would I do that same thing in ffmpegX, or at least on the Mac in general?

Chris

[major]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=166057