A lot of Nintaus owners have probably noticed that when they author a SVCD with menus, sound is lagging when playing back the film clips/movies. I don't have an answer to that, but I have a very nice work-around that gives you new possibilities :)

Small movie - not SVCD picture
Instead of creating a 1-frame SVCD picture as usual, create a small +5 second movie with your menu. I used Vegas video edit, where I just inserted my menu as background - and no other stuff in front of it. I also added 44.1 KHz/stereo sound, to make it a fully normal AVI file.

Encoding - and new possibilities
AFter the AVI was made, I then encoded the AVI with CCE in the same way I encoded my movie - VBR, same audio bitrate etc. The audio, which is not available for SVCD pictures, can be anything - like on a DVD, intro etc. for the menu :)

Authoring
This is where all the fun starts. Use VCDeasy to add functionality to my MPEG2 clips. Set VCDeasy to wait forever, after playing the 5-second menu clip - this will make it appear as a menu. Then add the interactivity, that will make the numbers on the remote work as stated in the menu. As a nice touch, let the DVD-player return to the menu, after each clip has been played? Like on a DVD.

This actually works on a Nintaus, unlike the normal SVCD pictures. And also on all the players that use the same internal board as in the Nintaus. And it is well within the Phillips SVCD standard - you're just using a very short movie, instead of a SVCD picture.

Hope this was worth reading...

/Frontier