SVCD stops and loops itself and freezes! What's up?

[purejunk]

I have a problem with my burnt SVCDs. When I play them back in my Philips 711 player, at certain points, the SVCD skips as an old vinyl record would... it's really weird: the video stops and loops itself indefinetely and also, when it loops, the image is split in two horizontaly smack in the middle of the screen. I use Tmpgenc to encode using 2 pass VBR with average bitrate +/- 2300... I don't have a lowest bitrate set though. Should I set a minimum to avoid jumpy and freezing video? Or is it just my 711 player? Thanks!

[shardison]

Your 711 should play a "legal" only SVCD just fine (try VCDeasy to set up and burn)

The upper limit for video + audio can't exceed about 2400~2500kbs or else it will freeze and jerk.

The looping sounds like Microvision. Did you check your source video before re-encoding?

[purejunk]

What exactly is microvision? How can I disable this?

[2man]

try to low the bitrate of audio
my stand alone DVD Jocel can´t handle high bit rate like 4000 bps and 320 bps but it can handle if audio is lower

[shardison]

I mean macrovision copy protection.

I don't have any experience getting around it, but I know it can be done.

Lots of threads about that here. Search for it.