MPEG encoded fine but when burned to VCD it drops frames..

[Jimmy TwoTimes]

Just reformatted my hard drive, have standard mpeg encoded by using TMPGC from VOB files and DVD2AVI. MPEG plays beautifully, but as soon as I convert to VCD using either latest NERO or VCDEASY, I get dropped frames every few minutes.

I have tried fast and slow speeds of burning, different CD media and closed down all other programs that could be running in background.

Burned plain MPEG to CD and that works fine. It only messes up when I burn to VCD.

Its driving me crazy............

I have W98SE, 20GB Hard disk, 750Duron, 256MB Ram.

Weirdest thing is that it used to work fine. Thats why i re-formatted hard drive but it still does it. I'm stumped....

Jimmy.

[Treebeard]

im a little confused when you say dropped frames. how do you drop frames when burning? dropping frames happens when you capture video.

could you explain more

[Jimmy TwoTimes]

Well, what happens is during playback the video kinda pauses for a split second then carries on again. The audio remains perfect.

I'm guessing a couple of frames are dropped from the original mpeg.

It really is driving me crazy..............

[Treebeard]

Well, what happens is during playback the video kinda pauses for a split second then carries on again. The audio remains perfect.

I'm guessing a couple of frames are dropped from the original mpeg.

It really is driving me crazy..............

this is playback on standalone right?
did you make a xvcd (change bitrate?)
was the source ntsc or pal?

this could be your playing not being able to handle the bitrate if its an xvcd or it could be a framerate isssue.

[Jimmy TwoTimes]

The errors occur on both standalone DVD player and on my PC DVDROM. Its a completely standard VCD. Bitrate is 1150. Everything is completely VCD compliant. Not XVCD.

The source was PAL and I've kept everything PAL.

I really have no idea. I've even burned BIN/CUE and it still does it.

So sick cos it never used to do it and I was making real nice VCD's....