VCD plays fine on PC but jumpy on VCD player

[jmcgwen]

I've RIP shrek DVD (PAL) to VCD (NTSC), I followed pinoys2201 ripping guide and the nero burning guide line per line. I used the "pinoy2201's VideoCD (NTSC).mcf" template.

When playing on my PC everything is fine, but if I play the vcd on my player, its slow and jumpy? is this a burning problem or encoding problem. I've encoded the vcd as NTSC MPEG1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150 kbps.

If you have encountered this problem and fixed pls tell me how to fix it. Thanks

Please help
John

[neomaine]

jmcgwen,

First, your DVD was probably NTSCFilm at 23.97, you would have been better off keeping it that way when encoding since this is still a valid fps setting for VCD. And, you end up with roughly 20% more bits to use for a cleaner result.

And to your question...It could be as simple as the media your using. You could try a different brand of CDR or try using CDRW. The CDRW seems to work for alot of people. And, you should make sure your standalone actually support VCD.

[jmcgwen]

thks neomaine, I just tried to Rip a DVD (PAL) to VCD (PAL), and it's working perfectly.

My question now is, about the vcd that is jumpy on vcd player. I still have the 2 mpegs, is there a way to encode them back to PAL without the d2v and wav files?

Thanks
jmcgwen

[poopyhead]

burn no faster than 4x

(also, i'm assuming you burned it as standard vcd 2.0, otherwise, your bitrate may be too high for the vcd player to handle)

could also be the cd-r media you have, try a different brand (even better, test it on a friend's dvd player and c if it works)

also, as for your last post...you already lost the quality when encoding to 29.97 fps (there's no point in making it 23.976 fps + 3:2 pulldown cuz you won't get the extra 20% increase in quality since your vcd already lost it)