Slow Down Speed up on VCD playback device.....

[dfgh11]

Occasionally I'll burn a VCD and in places the picture will have a sudden burst of speed and throw out the sound, until about 10 to 20 seconds later when it'll slow down and put itself right. However, it'll do this tonnes of times throughout the movie, which is quite annoying, and generally just shit. I've tried various burning speeds discs software and players, but still continues to do this shit. Just wondering if anyone else had/has the same problem and if you have overcome it how?

[Sefy]

As i've never encountered this problem before, I would like if you can, to give some more details: What is your playback device ? and have you tried playing back on the PC ? does it cause the same problem on the PC ? with what program did you author the VCD ?

[Simon_Haddad]

It may be the hardware. I have two DVD players. Both are good DVD players, but one of them is a lousy VCD player. I'm plagued by sudden bursts of speed with the audio barely catching up.
Every VideoCD contains error-correction codes that the DVD player just doesn't seem to be picking up. Maybe if you set the burned disk in your computer's drive you can get TMPGEnc to re-encode the file by selecting the AVSEQxx.DAT file on the disk as the audio/video source. It's worked for me in the past. 8)

Good Luck.

[dfgh11]

To the Post above:

how? I mean How am I suppose to affect an already burned format(CD R)? and which option do I use in Tmpg to re encode it?

[dfgh11]

Anyway Tmpg won't let me do that for some reason. Does this mean I'm screwed?

[Simon_Haddad]

In TMPGEnc, after clicking Browse to select the video & audio sources, you must also

1. Change Files of type: to All Files to locate the AVSEQxx.DAT file on the CD

1. Load the Videocd (1150 kbps) template appropriate to your local television standard

As for the already-burned CD-R there's nothing that can be done. My advice was just to try and help you burn a better one.

[dfgh11]

Everytime I select it through browse it says it's not a supported format.

[Simon_Haddad]

With as many versions of TMPGEnc as there are, I'm sure some of them don't work alike. We all know that a VCD *.DAT file is the standard and by definition should be supported. Well, I'm stumped.

[dfgh11]

It's really beginning to piss me off.

I've been at this all day and I haven't come up with any soloutions.

I've tried many versions of Tmpg, all sa the same thing. C'mon someone must know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sefy]

Wow, wow, relax, lets keep the blood pressure at average, you cannot encode directly from your CDR/VCD, get VCDGear, and it will copy the DAT file back to your HDD and change it to MPG, then you can load that MPG in the Video Input, and re-encode it as a new file.

[deadpac]

dfgh11

THE SOLUTION TO END ALL OTHER SOLUTIONS

that made absolutely no sense whatsover, but what you might want to do is encode your videos using a VBR bitrate with the min max and average bitrate.

My guess is that your player can't keep up with the constant bitrate.

There's nothing you can do about the videos you've already burned.

But for future instances you should encode your videos in TMPGEnc [or whatever encoder you prefer] using a VBR.

Used to have a player that did the same thing, someone suggested using VBR and I've never had that speed up slow down problem and I've increased the overall quality of my encodes since the inception of me using variable bitrates.

In TMPGEnc load your default template, and then load the unlock template; set your bitrate from CBR to either manual VBR, 2pass VBR, etc......

Example:
If you encoded at 1750kb/s bitrate; when it comes to the min max and average on your VBR, set it to the min of 1150 avg 1750 [YOUR OLD CBR becomes your average] and max of say 2500kb/s all depending on what your player can handle. I never set my min below the VCD standard bitrate of 1150kb/s.