Video on SVCD wraps horizontally to wrong end of screen!

[t4p]

Greets, and thanx to the maintainers (this is my 1st post)

I have made a few VCDs successfully using Nero 5.5 and 6.

Now I am trying to make an SVCD (for the higher quality); the
video clip is one of my POV-Ray animations. The SVCDs look ok
when played on my PC, but in my DVD player it has a problem:

* The left-most portion of the image (a narrow sliver, maybe 40 pixels)
is wrapped around to the right-most side of the screen.

* A small square area in the lower-right corner flashes spurious colors
(usually blue or white)

Additional info:

> The MPEG-2 files I've tried have been created by VideoMach,
TMPGEnc25, and Nero, all with the same results.

> The image sizes have all been 480x480 (plus a few with larger
width just to see what happens, but with no change).

> My DVD is a Pioneer 503 (5-disc changer) which is supposed to
support SVCD.

> The test SVCDs from VCDImager work fine, so I think the player
can DO a SVCD, but something MY SVCDs is not right.

If there is any additional info I can give, please let me know. I sure
hope someone can help me out here!

Thanks,
Mark

[Baldrick]

You could try author and burn with VCDEasy or another SVCD author/burn tool.

[t4p]

Thanks for the reply!

Ok, I tried using TMPGEnc 2.5 to make the MPG file, and
VCDEasy to create the CD image.

VCDEasy could not burn the CD, looks like a driver issue
(I have an R2102 DVD-R/CD-RW in a Toshiba laptop),
so I let Nero burn the image.

This worked without the wrap, but the image quality is
now inferior to what it used to be! I thought TMPGEnc would
most likely do the best job at encoding! But in my clip
(an animation with a planet and stars), the stars are big and
chunky (one is a big square), and the planet details looks
like it has been dithered. In the original creation (using VideoMach
and Nero), it looked better.

I am closer to my goal now, but I'd appreciate any thoughts on
how to improve it further...