Sony S360 can play svcd. So will other older players

[tnuro]

Unfortunately it didn't work. All my non-synced SVCD's I've chucked in the bin as unfixable. I thought it might be a simple matter of just re-encoding just the audio and then muxing in with the video but it had no effect (since for my player the whole trouble was this VBV buffer)

[KaBoNG]

I've been messing around with muxing as an MPEG-2 program stream and then remuxing as MPEG-1 VCD (standard). I think I am seeing an improvement but not totally sure.

I am trying different approaches starting from the original MPEG-2 SVCD stream and starting from the video and audio elementary streams. Also messing with TMPGEnc's cutter by cutting as an MPEG-2 program stream.

My theory is that if I want to make the final stream as VCD compliant as possible, it might be a good idea to remove the SVCD offsets, sequence headers, etc.. What I am seeing is no more large sync problems although I am not convinced yet that I have totally solved by audio sync problems (there still seems to be a very slight delay, maybe 50-75 ms).

This, btw, is all remux "trick" work on existing SVCD's without re-encoding. The Sony 400 handles CDRW's well so I can run as many tests as i like without building a large coaster collection.