Weird Burning SVCD/VCD's problem

[craggles79]

I've got the most frustrating problem.

Say I've got an mpeg 2 file. I'll burn it to two svcd's exactly the same way changing nothing. One will play fine in my standalone player, the other will go all green and pixely and skip all over the place. It doesn't make any sense, there's no variation at all save for the fact they're on seperate discs. And both will play perfectly on the computer.

I use the mpeg header trick to make my DVD player recognize the mpeg 2 files. But that's not the problem because this happens to standard VCD's as well.

I'm using Princo media because it's the only type i can get to work with my DVD player. I burn the disc's with the latest version of Nero.

If anyone can help out that'd be great.

My Specs:
AMD Athlon Tbird 1.4
512mb RAM
MSI K7T Turbo M/B
Sony 24x/10x/40x CD/RW
Triple X GeForce 4200Ti 128mb
Windows XP Pro
Tmpgenc Plus 2.57.41.146

My DVD player is a Sony DVP-S725D

[James-J]

I have the a very simular problem to yours.

I can burn 2 identical disks from the same image using the latest version of Nero (5.5.9.9) and get varying amounts of distortion of the sound/picture on each disk. Both disks play fine on my PC's DVD player, but not my standalone.

Its driving me mad as well! I notice that a few people are having the same problem, but nobody has any answers.

Once you have created your MPEG2 file, do you use VCDEasy to create an VCD/SVCD image to burn with Nero? Or do you use Nero to create the VCD/SVCD and burn it straight to disk?

Have you tried downloading the SVCD sample from this website? Does that work?

I have tried different media/burn speeds, but no no avail! Perhaps its Nero?

Hope we get some answers to these problems.

[craggles79]

I've tried creating an image with vcdeasy and burning with nero.

I've tried burning with nero.

I've tried burning with vcdeasy.

Same problem accross the board.

Have the exact same problem with both the VCD and SVCD sample from the site.

[Zeronada]

I'm having the exact same problem. Sporadic green blocks that seem to occur around the 35 minute mark on every odd vcd (or SVCD)

Sometimes it's a very minor glitch, sometimes it's a lot of glitches. I also sometimes get a very minute jerkiness sometimes. Sometimes sound is out of sync.

ALL of these problems seem to happen sporadically, with no real rhyme or reason. I have burned a kazillion vcds in the past year and this problem JUST started happening a few months ago.

I thought it was my DVD player at first, but I noticed that some of my old vcds played fine.

What I'm using:

Nero (5.5.9.0)

a Sony 40x cd writer

and various 40x cds.

I'm almost 100% certain the problem lies in one of the above, but haven't been able to narrow it down to an exact cause.

I have tried burning the cds at 32x which helps a little. I've also tried turning of the 'cache to network' option under the Misc menu.

Both seem to help, but I am still getting a little jerkiness. I'll continue lowering the burn speed until I get 10 perfect vcds.

[James-J]

I have now manage to start creating SVCD's without the blocks. It was basically down to the burn speed of my writer which is only x8. I now have no burn at x4 and the problems has disappeared.

Its strange because before i could burn at x8 and the VCD/SVCD was perfect.

Strange?

[Zeronada]

James J
Man, what you are saying about

Its strange because before i could burn at x8 and the VCD/SVCD was perfect

is exactly the same thing that is happening to me. I'm experimenting with the slower burn speeds nows. I hope that fixes my problem, but I'd really be interested in knowing why so many of us are experiencing this problem now.

[Nelson37]

Several different problems listed here.

As drives age, balance issues often dictate lowering burn speed. It's wearing out.

If you regularly burn one good, then one bad - that's odd, reboot each time, if that fixes it then check for virus or bad drive.

Occasional bad burns could be cheap media. Reduce burn speed may help.

[Teleport]

I'm fairly new to burning VCDs to play on my Sony DVP-S725D DVD player.

Could anyone please help me with these questions:

I know how to play XVCDs on this player using the header trick, but I have seen some people refer to SVCDs. Will SVCDs play on my player? If so do I just select a different file type when creating them in TMPEnc and do the rest as usual?

Also when I play XVCDs on my player the picture seems to be larger than the screen. How can I fix this, I have seen someone writ "Turn off DNR on the player", but I can't find this setting anywhere.

Thank you

[mats.hogberg]

XVCD header trick is something I've never heard of - the VCD header trick is to fool the player to play mpeg 2 SVCD streams by lying to it, and telling it that it is an mpeg1 stream.
If you encode the mpeg to fill the resolution 100%, some pixels top, bottom left & right will be chopped off by the TV. Avoid this by adding borders around the video.

/Mats

[Teleport]

Thanks for the quick reply mats.

I'll try the tip about adding boarders. Any idea how I can do this in TMPGEnc and still keep the ratios correct (so it doesn't appear squashed)?

I'm using this guide to burn XVCDs

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencxvcd.htm

Looking at Point 2 of the guide. What I need to know is if I can select a SvideoCD template instead of just a videoCD one and still trick my Sony player?

Thank you.

[mats.hogberg]

Actually, I have never bothered with this - but I'm sure there's someone else here that can guide you!?!
I don't know if your player will be fooled by the VCD header trick - just try it! Encode a short clip as SVCD and multiplex it as VCD (non standard). Author and burn, and pop it in your player!
There's nothing like trial and error!

/Mats

[Teleport]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

And I'll also see if I can figure out how to add boarders in TMPGEnc.