VCD fine on computer - Problems playing in DVD player.

[Wizard Of Odd]

Hi.

I successfully created a VCD from an MPG file I had using Nero. The movie plays absolutly fine on my computer, but when I put it in my standalone DVD player it does not work so well. The picture is perfect, as is the sound, but every so often the picture freezes or jumps or pixelates really bad for a few seconds.

Can anyone help me out? My DVD player can play VCDs fine, so why is it not working when it works okay on my computer drives. Would using better quality discs help as the ones I'm using were very cheap...

Can buy high quality discs produced especially for burning VCDs on?

Thanks for any help.

[The village idiot]

When you used NERO, did you use the VCD option to burn it? If so, then you might try different disks. I've been using Digital Research brand of CD-R with very good luck. They are about 30 cents each, and you can over burn them out to about 830MB of SVCD movie data.

Just had another thought. If the movie is in PAL (25 fps) and your player is NTSC (30 fps) or the other way around, you might see a problem.

[Morloc]

Also try burning at a slow speed. Nero lets you burn at 8X which is what I use.

Morloc

[AnitaPeterson]

Hello,

I experience the exact same kind of problem.

I have four files (two movies) on my HD, and they play flawlessly from the HD.

However, when I burn them on VCD using either VCDEasy or Nero, and play the resulting VCDs on my standalone Panasonic RP56 player, the image becomes pixelated every now and then. Always in the same sequences, too.

I posted more details on my machine here:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11273

What gets me really mad is that I've played other recorded VCDs on my RP56 - and even on crappy media! - and they had no problems.

I followed the suggestion to make sure the VCD is burned as NTSC, and the same thing still happens.

The files were produced from Laserdiscs transferred to Digital8 and then to the computer, via Firewire. They were encoded from AVI to MPEG1 using TMPGEnc, at the best possible quality - it takes me like 30 hours for every 1 hour of final result.

One more thing: Nero thinks the images need to be reencoded (I have to "Turn off standard compliance and continue") - and if I let it reencode the file, the pixelization disappears... BUT the image is overal crappier, and the sound is irritatingly plagued by a high frequency pitch.

I've checked the DMA enabling: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2) enables DMA on the CD-RW without problems.

This is getting me really upset: I'm spending a lot of time and energy on this project, and the result is not what I expected...

[AnitaPeterson]

anyone? I see people look at the thread, but no replies...

[Morloc]

I don't do the type of transfer that you have done, so I can only tell you what I did to eliminate the blocky artifacts in my VCDs that I made from DVDs. I did 3 things all at once and so I'm not sure what did the trick. In order of what I think made the biggest difference:
1 - Changed from Memorex CD-Rs to no name
2 - Stopped burning from VCD Easy. Continue to use VCD Easy to generate bin/cue files, but use Nero to burn at lowest speed
3- Cleaned up hard disk, defrag regularly now and I close all other open programs during burning.

However, I never got a non-standard warning from Nero like you did and can't help there. Suggest you post your TMPG settings that you used and maybe someone who is better versed in the program can help you.

Morloc

[Morloc]

Forgot one other thing. Set Nero's write method to "Disk at Once".

Morloc

[AnitaPeterson]

Thanks, Morloc!

So, I should set VCD Easy to create the image, and then I should do what exactly in Nero? Which template do I choose in Wizard: CD-ROM or VCD? And how do I tell it what to burn?

[Morloc]

Once you have your bin and cue fies from VCD Easy, it's dead easy. First close the wizard in Nero, then open File>Burn Image. Point to the cue file in the dialog box. Nero finds and loads the bin file. Then choose simulation and write, and as I said, select Disk at Once, and 8X speed. That's it.

Morloc