Playing SVCDS on APex 660

[matt88]

When I try to play svcds on my apex it skips, an the colours get messed up, an there blocks in it. What can I do to fix that if I can?
thanks

[Greg12]

bad encoding.

I have a disk like that.

also apex is picky about resolution.

Mine will only play vcd, svcd and dvd resolutions. Not custom ones. and frame rates to

[matt88]

the svcd is 480 x 480 so the resolutiion is fine. Any other ideas?

[suspect]

if you rewind and go over the same spot are the artifacts still present?

if the artifacts go away the problem is the cheap dvd-rom drive in the apex, i have similar problems with mine(apex 660). I've heard replacing it with a half decent ide dvd-rom fixes the problem, but i havent had the need to do that because the artifacts arent too severe. you might want to try a different dye cdr, sometimes certain readers have trouble with particular cdr dyes.

suspect

[thxkid]

I play all types of SVCD in my APEX 660 with no problems, I have also upgraded my Flash Bios to 9mm, less problems since then, no macrovision also.
I Have used 74min., 80min., 99min. CD-R's and the following brands, GQ, Memorix, CompUSA, SONY, TDK, Yamaha, Pioneer, Primaris all work fine.

[matt88]

Ok I got them to work. They werent working cause I was useing,cdrw, but cdr works. Anyone know a cdrw that works? thxkid could you please tell me how to update to version 9mm? I have version 8am. I cant figure it out.
thanks all

[Vorlon]

Hello Matt88,

I have an ApexAD660. It does not support (or barely supports CDRW).

I get less pixelation, etc. if I burn at a higher speed using the same CDRW type on both speeds. (8x) is the highest my burner will go. This is using the a 1x-4x CDRW. I have tried also on a 10x CDRW, but there is no difference than the 4x burnt as 8x speed. In any event, the results are not acceptable to me, but show is watchable.

Most people will tell you that burning speed does not make a difference, but it does here for some reason.

VCD 2.0 standard on CDRW plays without problems, but not anything encoded higher including XVCD format will not play properly unless the bitrate is lowered to below (I think) 1300 max. (which shows not much difference than standard.)

I have wonderful results using the TMPGENC template for SVCD and burning with either Nero 5 or CDRDAO on no-name brand (no label) CDR 16X blank burnt at 12x speed.

All of the above were done, capturing the new Enterprise show from VCR tape to hard drive, frameserving VirtualDub to TMPGENC using the TMPGENC SVCD template. Then burning the final to CDR. It plays beautifully and consistently with different episodes.

[Anonymous65]

The APEX 660 does not like CD-RW. Try burning at 1x speed. Also, some burners make a "better" copy then others. My previous burner would not make any CD-RW that would play. But I got a new burner and used the same CD-RW disks, and I can make good CD-RW at 4x speeds that will play in the Apex. (I got the Cyberdrive 16X that will burn 99 min CD-Rs)

[up]

I have also noticed that write speed makes a difference. Writting at 4X rather than 12X results in a much better finished product. In my Apex 660, Memorex CD-Rs seem to work the best.