Still no 'track info'. Even with VCDImager

[Jon Weaver]

I have been generally happy with my SVCDs, but was a little surprised taht I could only get 'Track Number' and 'Counter' on my DVD player.

I assumed that this is how my player worked, even though the DVD instruction say that I can get other info (i.e remaining time)

But I recently borrowed some other SVCDs and these allowed me to get more 'track information' (i.e total time remaining, track time remaining).

After asking questions, I understand that this could be due to the fact that I was using Nero/WinOnCD.

So, last night i tried VCDImager.

I made 2 disks.. One with PBC on, the other off.

Whilst the disk worked fine.. They were just the same as the other disks I have made and I couldn't get any track info.

How can 2 disks work differently on the same player?

What could the author of the other disks have done to make my DVD player give track info?

[hvr]

try to run vcddebug on the disks, and you might be able to spot a difference...

should you have a pioneer dvd player, then it's surely dependant on whether you have a vcd with PBC or without...

[jazzer]

This was happening to me at first too. Some of the DVD players are not IEC-62107 SVCD compliant. The Apex for example is one of them. These play SVCDs which are compliant with an older standard, VCD 3.0.

You may notice an option in TSCV or VCDImager to update mpeg2 scan offsets for older Chinese players -- try using this. On the Apex, I can see the remaining times properly now, although the GOTO function still only works on the 1st track.

I don't think Nero offers the ability to support the /SVCD/TRACKS.SVD format which is the important one to correct the remaining time problem.

[Jon Weaver]

Forget it!

It turns out that the disks which I was getting 'track info' for were VCDs!

I am still doubtful, as the quality is superb.. But the evidence speaks for itself.. If I play the *.DAT file on my PC, I can clearly see that they are MPEG-1!

So, it seems that my player gives more info for VCDs than it does for SVCDs.

Sorry to waste your time.