Converting DIVX to VCD - movie move faster at times

[anon_uno]

Hi,

I have converted a DIVX movie to VCD format.
When I tried to play the VCDs, at times, I notice that the movie plays a bit faster than the normal speed at times but not often (like fast forwarding), it appears that it tries to catch up with the audio. I am not sure why this has happened.

Was it my DVD player?
or have I done something wrong with my converstion process, I selected a template with Constant Bit Rate (CBR), would this cause this symptom?
should I be using a template with VBR?

Can anyone please explain why this has happen and more importantly, how to fix this?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
anon

[puertorican138]

It could be that you have syncronisation problems.

[mcmse1]

Anon,

I don't know if I can help you or not but I've had similiar experiences. If I take an elementary stream, such as a .m2v file, and play it on my computer using WMP9 or PowerDVD, the movie will start playing faster than normal. Since it's an elementary stream I don't have any audio to compare it to. The problem goes away as soon as I mux the .m2v file with the audio track and play the final video.

-Dan

[wipeout]

I have the same problem. I thinks its the player since no one else seems to have an answer. I have recorded in mutiple ways and still sometimes get this problem.

If you try to play it back again.....it wont do it in the same spot.....that is a pretty good clue that the DVD player is trying to sync right. Even tried Frameserver....to no avail. Does not occur all the time....just sometimes.

Could also be brand of media or burning too fast.

Anyone have a clue....I have already made a post on this.

[Knut_Norw]

What quality are you guys encoding at?

I had this problem when I used TMPGEnc's setting to "Motion search estimate".

Under "Other settings" and "Video" set the quality too "High". Try encoding the movie with this setting.

[wipeout]

problem still exists even under vcd using 1150 CBR. Must be the cd player, the media, or burning speed.

funny thing....some movies it happens others it does not

Does anyone out there have an answer? What brillant mind will come up with the answer

Using Daewoo 5000N player.

[the * dude]

Yep,
I've had that problem, what i used to do was re-encode the clip in a different codec (divx not xvid), but this way is tre' long! so try this one for size.... find out what the FPS is of the vid, then when encodeing (assuming its tmpeg) check the 'do not convert framerate' , this might work, i havent tried it yet, so best to try it out on a same bit (say 10 mins)



Later!

BTW,,,,,,,, youre dvd playa, burner & SW are OK>>>

[anon_uno]

All,

Thanks for your replies. To be honest, I haven't tried replaying the movie at again at the same spot to see if I can reproduce this problem.

If it can't reproduced this at the same spot, then it will be a DVD Player problem.

I was using a Wintel DVD player.