SVCD "freezing" problem!

[carlo_au64]

Dear all,
I have a "strange" problem with my DVD player XMS750, bought from Strathfield Australia: although it's supposed to be compatible with svcd, when I try to use any kind of variable bit rate, the sound stop for 1 second and soon after the picture freezes; seems that just using constant bit rate @2520 the problem doesn't exist (just 2 or 3 "hiccups" in 40 minutes)

The source was a vob file through DVD2AVI, using TMPGEenc (I tried ver 12a, 12J and 2.0) with variable bit rate (like CQ) and with 16:9 aspect ratio.

With avi files from a vhs (4:3 full screen) , seems to be better, maybe because the bit rate never falls too much.

In fact, analyzing the file bit rate, from a Vob file using VBR the rate fall down much more then using AVI source, which remain more stable.

The problem seems to be the lower bit rate limit rather then the higher one.

Can be possible that my DVD player cannot handle VBR? According to the video chip manufacturer specification, the ES4408fd is full SVCD complaint.

Do you have a possible explanation?
Thanks

[carlo_au64]

I'll reply to myself; hope it could be usefull to someone.

After a tour in a big shop, I found out that some DVD players are full compatible with SVCDs although they don't say anything in theier specifications (Philips 7xx or Lenoxx) and are cd-rw compatible too; my case was just the opposite because my XMS750 claims to be SVCD complaints but it's not!

So, I swapped it with a OMNI 3200, that plays SVCDs VBR (or CQ if you like) without any problem at all.

Cheers