Minimum MPEG-length on VCD?

[jvtroyen]

Hi,

I authored a VCD today with some menus between the MPG-movies.
All of the movies are really short (most are about 20 seconds long, some even shorter). When I play the VCD in my DVD-player, the following happens.

- after I select a movie from the menu, it plays the movie completely (i.e. 20 seconds)
- instead of returning to the menu or starting the next movie (depending on what I set on timeout) it plays a part of the movie again. More concretely : it plays the middle 10 seconds, then skips to the beginning, plays 5 seconds, skips to the end, and plays the last 5 seconds.
- only then (after jumping back and forth a while) it goes to the item I set as timeout-target

Could it be that my movies are too short?

[ROBO1964]

when I was testing intros I had a menu with 4 different intro's so I could see what each looked like. My intro was only 13 seconds long. So it can't be that.

What did you make it with?

[jvtroyen]

The original files were avi's created by a digital camera.
I converted them to pal-vcd mpg with TMPGEnc. The mpg plays fine in a windows media player, but not in my standalone DVD-player. (Actually, it plays fine the FIRST time, but then garbles a little before playing the next item)

[kitty]

The minimum motion MPEG is something like 4 seconds (stills have a second or so). Make sure your motion MPEGS have audio, even silence (easy to do in Windows sound recorder or Mac) as all compliant VCD motion MPEGS must have some audio stream.

[ya_jai]

Might be mpeg file corrupt, Can you try to burn and play that 20 second intro alone without anything else? I suggest to use CDRW so that you can see if your file corrupt or the way you author to create menu.