SVCD authoring recommendations

[Leewin]

What is the most foolproof way of capturing and burning SVCD for playing on my standalone DVD player. So far I've tried capturing with MMC and burning with Nero & VCDEasy. With both I get sound but no picture All I want is footage from my camcorder and from TV but with better picture than VCD (which I have no problems with) If I need different software I'd prefer it to be freeware as my wife doesn't let me spend much money.

[El Torro]

is your DVD player able to read SVCD's...?

try doing this

you have an MPEG2 File
use nero, make a VIDEO CD
drag the MPEG2 file into the VIDEO CD area
ignore the message(hit the first button, the highest one)
and burn.

it works fine for me, no quality loss

[Leewin]

Yeah definately supports SVCD (Alba dvd 103) and recognizes SVCD, sound plays but with no picture. I've burnt them with Nero as above, but no joy.

[puertorican138]

Try VCDEasy as it burns (S)VCD's with no problems. :P

[puertorican138]

VCDEasy is in the Tools Section to your left. :P

[puertorican138]

Here's a link to the VCDEasy Website:

http://www.vcdeasy.org/

Hope That Helps!!! :P

[Leewin]

I've used VCDEasy, exactly the same results

[Frontier]

No problems what so ever - when using compliant tools.

Non-compliant MPEG2 encoders
Until a week ago, I had given up on ever getting my Nintaus 9901 to play SVCD's. Then, for the fun of it, I tried frameserving to CCE 2.66.01.07, from Virtualdub (DeXT mod) - and encoded a SVCD MPEG, fully mux'ed from CCE. I then used VCDeasy 1.1.4 to author and burn the CD - voila!

I'm now able to make and see SVCD's on not only my own Nintaus, but also on my friends' DVD-players, where some of them have had simular or other odd experiences.

CCE or MainConcept
In short - forget your present MPEG2 encoder, unless it's CCE or MainConcept - seems to be the only 2 compliant encoders out there. I've tried a large number of MPEG2 encoders this week, and only those 2 seem to be somewhat compliant to the MPEG2 standard.

Good news!
Cinemacraft has made a cheap, but very handy version of their MPEG encoder - Cinemacraft MPEG encoder basic, which is on sale for just $58. I know I'll be one of the first customers :)

/Frontier

[puertorican138]

Have you tried using TMPGEnc? :P

[puertorican138]

TMPGEnc is a very MPEG-2 compliant program! :P

[puertorican138]

Here's a comparison chart that compares several MPEG-2 encoding programs:

https://www.videohelp.com/comparison.htm#mpeg2

Hope That Helps!!! :P

[puertorican138]

TMPGEnc is in the Tools Section to your left. :P

[puertorican138]

Here's the link to the Official TMPGEnc Website:

http://www.tmpgenc.net/

Hope That Helps!!! :P

[Frontier]

Yes, I tried using TMPGenc - and my Nintaus has tons of problems when using just that encoder (audio is sometimes ahead, sometimes lagging - but never right).

However, when using CCE or MainConcept's MPEG encoder - no prblems what so ever.

In short - it works with others. It doesn't work with TMPGenc. Now who's to blame?

/Frontier

[Leewin]

I've tried TMPGenc now and guess what, still no success totally at my wits end now, just don't know what to do. maybe my DVD player is faulty, how can I check. PLEASE HELP