X(S)VCD's and the DVD player....

[fmctm1sw]

So, I'm making an XVCD. It's an hour (actually about 53 minutes thanks to Vdub removing the commercials) in length and I used the bitrate calculator here (great tool) and came up with 1850. So I set it at 1800 to be safe but my question is regarding DVD players. Why do some (maybe even mine) DVD players not play these. Does the CBR get pushed too high? Is my DVD player "programmed" to look for 1150k on VCD (or 2000k?) for SVCD? Or should I feel safe about CBR and only worry about VBR (PLEASE NO! Don't start that war again in this thread)? What's the real deal?

[ya_jai]

okay I'll give you an example. I have APEX 660AD which supposed to play all type of format VCD, SVCD, XVCD and XSVCD. I have tried both XVCD (VBR) and XVCD(CBR). This is really strange, this unit will play XVCD fine only for the first 5-10 mins then get screw up. I have tried to lower bitrate to under 1600 both VBR and CBR, but result still the same. No matter what I've done the result remain the same just matter of time when it will happen.

[fmctm1sw]

okay I'll give you an example. I have APEX 660AD which supposed to play all type of format VCD, SVCD, XVCD and XSVCD. I have tried both XVCD (VBR) and XVCD(CBR). This is really strange, this unit will play XVCD fine only for the first 5-10 mins then get screw up. I have tried to lower bitrate to under 1600 both VBR and CBR, but result still the same. No matter what I've done the result remain the same just matter of time when it will happen.

That sucks... I got a Apex player too (AD-1100W)

[puertorican138]

I also have a APEX 1100W.

[ya_jai]

Not really suck guys. I can hack my player to disable macrovision and region free..don't dare to add harddrive yet..but i will someday eieieie

[LeeBear]

It seems like most DVD players do not like VBR XVCD's very much. I have a Panasonic DVD player and get audio out of sync with VBR XVCD's. Strange thing is if I encode the same clip (same settings) except I use MPEG2 to make it an XSVCD I everything is great. My guess is since VCD standars are pretty strict, ie. MPEG1 1150 kps CBR, most players don't handle anything other then that properly. On the other hand SVCD standard can be either CBR or VBR so players seem to handle VBR MPEG2 stream much better.

fmctm1sw. Since your player can play SVCD and you said your average bitrate was 1800kbps, why not encode it into a SVCD instead? That average bitrate should be enough for a good looking VBR SVCD.

-LeeBear