Testing Sefy's templates

[jntaylor63]

I was playing with Sefy's SxVCD templates which is a MPEG2 file at 352x240 with a one of his CBR and Audio rates. (He list time examples and what rate to set for a 80min CDR) Like most people, I am looking for good quality with fewer disks.

I tried instead a 2 pass VBR using whatever average the vcdhelp.com bit-rate calulator listed and a Max rate at 2500. The results look pretty good on my PC and it did not create a file that was to big to burn with Nero. I have yet to hook up to my TV and veiw the results. I tried again with the CBR rate and I think that 2pass VBR gives better quality with the same number of disks. Using VBR on his templates, you should never use any more than two disks for most movies.
Sefy's gave us a great idea.(More movie, good quality with less disks)If you try it, test with CDRW. Not all players can play this setting. Sefy listed test with Pioneer players that can read these disks. I am going to take a test disk and try it out on one of the two new Pionner DVD players that can also read MP3's. Hope it works, they look like the players to get. From the posts, Pioneer's are qualtity machines that can play just about any disk you can make.

Enjoy!

[thxkid]

If you use the new 99min. CD-R's you should, like me, never have to use more than 2 discs per source.

[jntaylor63]

Sounds good,

what type of player do you use to play?

What software and burner do you use?

[Sefy]

jntaylor63, if you do tests on players not on my list, could you please update me ? i've got about 30 Players reported to be capable of playing SxVCD, and it would help others to know if their player can also play it.

And thanks! it's nice to hear good reviews for a change

[ATREIDE]

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On 2001-10-05 15:05:05, Sefy wrote:
jntaylor63, if you do tests on players not on my list, could you please update me ? i've got about 30 Players reported to be capable of playing SxVCD, and it would help others to know if their player can also play it.

And thanks! it's nice to hear good reviews for a change


Hi i tryed ure templates and on my pionner 535 in Pal i have problems with the sound if the disk burnt as VCD with picture if is burn as SVSD.
It seems that the probleme is the mode VBR
Could u help me ? My burner is Nero 5.54
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[Sefy]

If you are using the SxVCD, then you MUST burn it as a Non-Standard Super Video CD, not Video-CD! it will not work! (as you noticed), because it uses MPEG2 compression and the DVD expects to find MPEG1 compression.