My DVD player cannot read SVCDs. How can I...

[aldaco12]

Hi. I have this problem: my SVCD player cannot read SVCDs. Is there a simple way to fix this?
I heard that DVD Lab is able to author a DVD with (multiple) SVCD movies, but I read on all such guides that the only thing DVD Lab does for you (apart, maybe, re-writing some headers) is to convert to 48 kHz the standard SVCD MP2 audio 44.1 kHz, and I'm afraid this only cannot determine if the resulting DVD is playable.
Or am I wrong, and that simple stuffs which DVD Lab makes turns a SVCD movie viewable even by a DVD player which, normally, doesn't accept such format?

If it 's not, and if a SVCD movie authored on a DVD with DVD Lab cannot be played in that DVD player (which doesn't accept SVCDs), am I forced to convert my 480x576 SVCD movie into a 720x576 DVD movie or is there an easier strategy?

[guns1inger]

I assume that you have a typo and you meant to say your DVD player can't play SVCDs.

DVD Lab will allow you to author a DVD using SVCD source material by simply altering the sample rate of the audio. Will it play ? Maybe. My old pioneer would not play SVCDs, however it would play some DVDs that were created from SVCD source. Sometimes it worked, sometimes the picture was distorted slightly (usually tall and narrow), and sometimes it just went nuts and created duplicate images and horrible scanlines.

Still, disks are cheap, and you only learn by trying. Give it a go and see what happens. It might solve your problem.

If it doesn't, re-encode the video at half-D1, which is closer to SVCD than full D1 is, and create a compliant DVD instead.

[mats.hogberg]

If it doesn't play SVCD, I'd be surprised if it'd play SVCD mpg authored as DVD. Your best bet is to reencode to 1/2 D1 (352*576 PAL) as guns1inger suggests, and author as DVD.

/Mats