dvd rip when played has blocks and audio screeching (nero)

[EL_INCA247]

I've ripped a few dvd's now and the mpeg works fine, good qualityand sound. But when i burn it to vcd, the pic when played has pixels(blocks) and audio screeching. I've tried everything but can not correct it. AT frist I thought it was my stand alone but I used DUP-DVD to make a rip and it played just fine. I think its something with my nero settings that I can't figure out.

Can anyone help please..

[poopyhead]

1) make sure nero burns it as standard compliant

2) 4x max burning

3) burner buffer is NOT low at anytime during the burn (i.e. burnproof or justlink won't cut it...try not doing anything at all while burning)

4) track-at-once, not disc-at-once

5) if your dvd rip is NTSC, choose NTSC in nero...if it's PAL, then choose PAL in nero

that's all i can remember right now, try to burn on cd-rw and see if the same problem comes up.

[zamiel]

when i burn it to vcd, the pic when played has pixels(blocks) and audio screeching. I've tried everything but can not correct it. AT frist I thought it was my stand alone

man, i fell your pain......I have burned about 6-8 versions of the same vcd, I have been trying and reading evrything, checking settings,checking settings,checking settings...everything I am doing seems kocher BUT i still get vcd's which stick on some frames, make blox and tear between frames, as well as the occasional audio glitch. The quality of the vcd is GREAT! But the playback sux

I would like to offer a golden insight to your prob coz I worked it out, but I haven't

I'll keep an eye out for you in the forums in case I or you find some answers.

My player is a Toshiba SD-1300 btw, and I will try to play it on other machines. I know that a PSII rejects it.

[EL_INCA247]

poopyhead, your advice worked great. One question though, it seems that when images move fast there is slight distortion around them. I think it has to do with my tmpgenc settings. I tried it with highest quality it took forever but there was still some slight distortion. any suggestions???

[poopyhead]

you don't need to set motion search accuracy to highest quality (slowest)...just set it to high quality (slow), there's not much (if any) decrease in quality, but you save a lot of encode time

btw, are you making a standard VCD 2.0??? if you are, then you basically have no choice with fast motion scenes because the low VCD bitrate of CBR 1150 kbit/s doesn't really give u very much

[EL_INCA247]

Poopyhead, well I'm making SVCD. tmpgenc lets set it at 2525 kbit/s using 2pass. I read that if I encoded it at 23fps with a 3:2 pull down it might result in better quality since it 6 frames less then just NTCS. it probably did, but not enough to be noticeable. I encoded it at NTCS film (23fps) and now the pic jumps. I'll think i'll go back to NTCS(29FPS)and make the best of it. Unless you have any recommendations?

[poopyhead]

well, i'm assuming you're watching this on the computer, right? cuz, if the pic jumps on the dvd player, there can be a whole lot more reasons...

anywayz, if the pic jumps on the computer:

1) can you even encode in 23.976 fps + 3:2 pulldown for THIS particular movie? in dvd2avi, press f5 and look at the info box that appears. you should only use forced film if the video type is 90+% FILM (watch for a couple of minutes into the movie cuz the intro is usually NTSC)

2) i'm assuming u forced film in dvd2avi and encoded your movie at 23.976 fps + 3:2 pulldown, right?

3) change the field order (do a test encode of small portion and c if the pic still jumps)

[MadeInJapan]

I know it's a lengthy process but DVD2SVCD does a perfect job every time, both with VCDs and SVCDs. Variable Rate is the way to go to get rid of pixilation. Slower segments are encoded faster and fast moving segments are encoded slower to deal with it. I highly recommend it over trying to use Nero to make the VCDs or SVCDs. Nero is junk when it comes to it's encoding ability.