unfunky scene transitions

[Buggerlugs]

I`ve noticed that alot more film makers are being snazzy with scene transitions and svcd does not seem to like it. What I mean is when a fast scene ends quickly and the screen will go black for a few seconds, or another example recently was black hawk down where the action is fast then freezes in like a pause mode when some blood squirts out of some unsuspecting US Ranger.

When this happens it tends to cause the svcd playback immense problems keeping up.

Is this because it is using a high bitrate and then plummeting to a low bitrate too fast? Is there an easy way around this?

Would making a svcd constant bitrate eliminate this problem and if so what bitrates am I looking at to let most films fit on 2 80min cdrs?

[poopyhead]

errr...i encoded and watched black hawk down....there were no problems....

did the problem occur on the computer or in a standalone? and was it burned or playing the .mpg straight from harddrive?

[Buggerlugs]

both, and playing from cdr

[poopyhead]

"immense problems keeping up"...i'm not sure what this means....is there an audio sync problem, skips, blockiness, jumpiness???

1) don't use CBR cuz it does a poor job of allocating bitrate where it needs to be....use CQ_VBR if 2 pass VBR takes too long for you

2) also, motion search accuracy set to high quality (slow)

3) you may have to sacrifice quality if you wanna fit most movies onto 2 cds....i suggest not going under 2000 kbit/s, but you may have to go as low as 1700-1800 kbit/s to fit some movies onto 2 cds...but you may not like the quality (in these cases of low bitrate, you definitely need to use 2 pass vbr to make the best quality with the little bitrate you have and more predicatable filesize)