SVCD on DVD-R

[con999]

Hey you all.

Followed the guide "How to...SVCD-DVDR".

Demultiplex - Convert the audio to 48 khz MPEG1 Layer2 - Authoring -
and last burning the DVD.

I burned 4 episodes of Dark Angel on one DVD-R brand Verbatim and I have tried one DVD-RW from Sony. Both plays fine on my computer using MyDVD and WinDVD.

On my standalone player, Pioneer 444 I get the menu and when I try to play chapter one I hear 3 secs of sound, still sees the menu, and then I see "search" in the display, another 3 secs of sound, (chapter two). It does this on all 4 chapters/episodes and then returns ready.

Both discs plays perfectly on a 99$ standalone player a friend bought at the mall. He laughs at my 350$ Pioneer 444.

Anyone have any ideas? I want to wipe that smile off my friends face)

[alturismo]

thers also the solution

its your standalone

some standalones cant play that format (svcd on dvdr)

theres an sample here to download,

wich you can burn & test if your standalone play

svcd/dvdr or vcd/dvdr

i experienced that almost all cheap standalones plays them

all "high quality" ones have probs here too, even with regular
burned dvd-r

[Slade_Slater]

many stand-alones can't handle svcd video on a dvdr medium. Another possible solution might be to encode to a dvd-compliant CVD (352X480), (presumably your audio is already at 48 khz, right?) and then author to DVD and try it. Make sure your stand-alone is able to play vcds, svcds, and cvd's of course (and check the media your stand-alone can play and so on and so forth)...

[Baldrick]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDname=444&DVDselect=&Search=Search
one user reported that it worked great

Download my sample here www.vcdhelp.com/dvd#sample and test if it works, that svcd is made directly from the guide on this site.

[Bud]

You may wan tot check to see if your player can play the DVD-R, some can't play anything recorded on the DVD-R format, I have two Panasonics and they both pl;ay DVD-R's however my Samsung M301 will not play the DVD-R disc.

Aloha
Bud

[con999]

Thanks to everyone replying,

I really did a lot of research here before buying the Pioneer 444. Read alot of the compability reports here at vcdhelp.com. My whole idea was to put my SVCDs on DVD discs.

Have ripped DVDs and burned with Nero, works OK on the Pioneer 444. It also plays SVCDs and VCDs, never had any problems. Had a Samsung earlier and had audio-sync problems on 8 of 10 SVCDs. Gave it away.

I also have a Pioneer DV909, it plays VCDs but the SVCDs it plays with picture on only half the TV screen, -vertically. Keeps it because it also plays Laserdiscs.


I have not tried to convert the audio to PCM. Anyone know if this would help?