All my SVCD MPEG-2 files end 1 second earlier!

[Greycat]

After making many VCDs with success, I'm attempting to make SVCDs for the first time. I encoded the source videos (several formats, like DivX 5 and MJPEG, several lenghts and either 29.97 fps or 23.97fps) with TMPEGEnc Plus (SVCD template, with the wizard or not) and they play to the very end on my PC. But after burning them to SVCD with VCDEasy, all MPEG-2 files play smoothly on my DVD player, but all of them end 1 second or so earlier than they should (e.g., a 20min 40sec movie plays for 20min 39sec or even for 20min 38sec. Not so terrible, but strange.

I'd like to know if somebody knows why, and also why does VDCEasy gives a lot of "non MPEG-1 audio stream header seen" warnings when analysing the MPEG-2 files produced by TMPGEnc Plus and if this is related to the problem I described.


Thanks for any help!

[Greycat]

Anyone, please??!

[Gazorgan]

Do they do this on your computer and other standalone players? I haven't had this happen to me with episodic SVCD's.

[§kipTracer65]

did you overburn the cd's? how big are the bin and cue files if any? or what size is the data on the cd? if you overburned it can cause an error at the end of the disc and may be the problem

[Greycat]

Gazorgan:

Do they do this on your computer and other standalone players? I haven't had this happen to me with episodic SVCD's

The SVCD plays perfectly on my PC. About other DVD player models or brands, I don't know.

§kipTracer65:

did you overburn the cd's? how big are the bin and cue files if any? or what size is the data on the cd? if you overburned it can cause an error at the end of the disc and may be the problem

No, I'm not overburning. The size of the data is Ok for the 80-min CD-Rs I'm using.

I tried raising the minimum bitrate (since all my MPEGs end with a fade-to-black scene, where the bitrate falls to very low values), but only with 1500 kbps min. the movies seem to end closer to the last frame, but I'm not so sure... and the same result also occurs when I encode with CBR instead of VBR. In both case, anyway, I don't know whether they really are valid solutions to my case...

Another solution would be to include 2 or 3 seconds of a black screen to the end of the movies, but even doing so the movies stop at the same point as before, as if the extra seconds weren't included...