Pioneer DV-444: The mysterious 5-Minute-Curse

[snyp]

Hi,

with some VCDs/SVCDs I have encountered the following problem:
They play fine on my PC. They also play fine on my Pioneer DV-444, BUT only AFTER the first 5 minutes of play.

During the first 5 minutes, SOME of my VCDs/SVCDs are showing major image-defects like artifacts, stuttering, etc. Sound is ok.

What on earth is causing this???

Cheers, Stefan

[MITSUI_1]

Peryaps your VCDs or SVCDs use a bitrate that exceeds the drive speed of your player, and the Pioneer is inconsistent in its servo control for disc speed.

See, discs are read from the inside tracks first. If you look at it, the inside tracks are actually spinning the slowest (as you move to the outer edge of the disc, the same RPMs give a higher effective point velocity.

Anyway, I think the pioneer simply can't get the data off those tracks fast enough on the inside tracks, but as the laser moves outward toward portions where the data velocity is effectively higher, it reads it.

You could also be using shitty media, I suppose.

[spiderman2k1]

I know what your talking about alot of DVD player now play SVCD and there are many way's to make a SVCD VCD CBR bitrate's My Dad's DVD player will play SVCD's that are made In VBR mode and will only play CBR for about a minute or two before it lock's up when these companies make a a DVD player to play SVCD they put in the setting's some DVD the bit rate is 2520 and some are 2600 for SVCD so some do not have a good range of MPEG2 setting's. I my self use a APEX AD-5131 and it play's any kind of SVCD and 100 dollars less then the JVC. When I went to bestbuy I brought my SVCD to the store and tried a Pioneer JVC and Samsung all sucked with SVCD then tried a APEX PREFECTED DVD player for SVCD go here to find out where to buy a APEX
I got mine from Circuit City

http://www.apexdigitalinc.com/html/wheretobuy.php

[bbb]

On the Pioneer 440/444 (when using VBR or CQ) set the minimum bitrate to 900 kbits/sec and the maximum bitrate to 2450 kbits/sec. This bitrate range is safe for encoding to play on the 440/444. Also, try to encode the sound at 160 kbits/sec.

If you are using CBR, set the maximum bitrate to 2450 kbits/sec and sound at 160 kbits/sec.

Encode a short clip at 352x480 (or 352x576 if your in PAL countries) and tell me if this works for you.