SVCD won't play properly on my player

[wwf_28]

I encoded THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS for SVCD and made it MPEG-2. I wanted it to fit exactly perfect on two cd's so I made the bitrate 1685 kbps. When I used nero to burn, it said the SVCD was invalid, that it was encoded wrong. Can someone please tell me the SVCD standard for bitrate. I have a Phillips DVD825 player. Also, if anyone has made a succesful SVCD and it works for their DVD player also add a comment. I need help so I can expertise in making SVCD for DVD players in the future with no problems. THANKS!!!

[jimneutron]

What S/W did you use to encode? What resolution did you use? I am no expert, but I recently burned some SVCD format discs from some home video that I captured. I captured and edited with Pinaccle Studio DV 1.26a and encoded using TMPGenc with a bitrate of 2500 and a resolution of 480x480. The product played quite well on my RCA RC5240P.

[Mr G]

yeah some more info would be useful, all the specs for svcd/vcd etc etc are on this site....

Your looking at 480 x 576 @ 2520 kbit a sec CBR with 44100 hz audio at 224 kbs PAL

Tmpgenc has a load of templates for dvd/svcd/vcd pal/ntsc you can load in to see what all the different specs are.

What version of nero are you using?

When i burned Svcd's with nero I had the no RW or FF problem.

I dont use it anymore for svcd..instead i use VCDImager with a Gui (EASYVCD) and then burn the resulting cue/bin with CDRWIN.

When I burned Svcd's with nero I had the no RW or FF problem.

[lafamar]

jimneutron,

These are the standards SVCD:

For NTSC: Super Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-2 480x480 2520 Kbit/sec 29.97fps CQ 65, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

For PAL: Super Video-CD PAL (MPEG-2 480x576 2520 Kbit/sec 25fps CQ 65, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

[wwf_28]

about my original post....I had 2 cd's/////both were 480x480 NTSC they were 1685 kbps 224 kbps audio

[Bong]

You really need to answer the question about what software was used to encode the viceo. For example: simply demuxing and remuxing with TmpegEnc will often fix this kind of thing when you do a capture with ATI MMC.
Who cares what Nero thinks. 352x240 is non-compliant and so is 1685 kbps and so is less than 224 for audio for SVCD but it'll still work. Does it say it's a bad file or does it say it's non-compliant? If non-compliant - keep going. If bad then demux and remux then try Nero again.

Hope my "Bong hit" helps

[RoopeT]

352x240 is non-compliant and so is 1685 kbps and so is less than 224 for audio for SVCD but it'll still work

SVCD specs: Audio 384-32 kbps, video+audio less than about 2800 kbps. So SVCD with video bitrate of 1685 kbps is completely valid.

You probably have wrong frame rate. For NTSC SVCD it has to be 29,97 fps. If your source is 23,97 fps, you'll have to apply pulldown for it (first demultipleg the programs streams with TMPGEnc, then run pulldown.exe for the video streams). Also, standard SVCD calls for 44,1 kHz audio. After all this, multiplex with bbmpg and burn with VCDEasy or similar (Nero isn't the best choise).