Skipping frames on towards the end of a VCD on PanasonicRV31

[evilfantom]

I'm having trouble with skipping frames towards the end of a VCD I
created. The frames only skip on my stand alone Panasonic RV31 DVD
player but not on my pc. Could it be the dvd player or possibly the
software I used to burn the disc (NERO)? I doubt it is Nero because
I've created many VCDs using that program and haven't had any
problems. Could it be my dvd player? I've had it skip frames towards
the end of a few VCDs I recieved in trades, again the VCDs would play
fine on my pc.

Are there any settings I could change on my dvd player to fix the problem? I turned off Playback control PBC and it didn't help.
I should also note that the source material for the VCD was a divx avi
that I converted into streaming VCD MPEG format with the Panasonic MPEG encoder. I burned the VCDs at 4x just like I burn all of my VCDs.

I should also mention that this is a two VCD set and that it happpens on both discs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks!

[sommersby]

I have had this problem when I have used cheap media and to fast a burning speed, try burning at a slower speed and see if that helps, I use 8x for all vcd's and that ended this problem on two of my dvd players.

[evilfantom]

I use verbatim data life plus to burn all of my cdr and I burned at 4x just like do for all of my VCDs. Didn't do anything different from what I usually do. This is the first time I have experienced the problem with VCD's I have created.

[thxkid]

I have seen this problem more and more with the Divx avi when converted over to VCD and its worse in any APEX machine only my Toshiba 2050 which is not even suppose to play VCD, is the only machine that will not skip frames or get out of sync.
Also had great luck with Panasonics brand new RA60k, DVD player and panasonic put their own MPEG decoder inside it, using the 54mhz, 10 bit video D/A and 192mhz, 24 bit audio D/A.
1st DVD player I have used that just blew me over on its picture quality and sound, best of all it took a OK looking VCD's with macro blocks and made them look great with no or largely reduced macro blocks.
Down fall, no SVCD at all.

[evilfantom]

Thanks for the info thxkid. I guess it would be pointless to burn another copy of this set, because it wouldn't do anything to fix the problem. Hopefully some more of the new dvd players will be able to play divx avi sourced VCDs correctly.