Page 1 of SVCD - are most players generally fussy about home-made disks??

I`m having fun getting the new SCAN 440LSi to play SVCD. Some of the discs are home-grown made with Nero and don`t play. They`re on `Memorex` and `Intenso` branded hi-quality CD-Rs. I think this SCAN machine needs 100% compliant SVCDs (as produced by Nero 5.5 with SVCD plug-in). It plays DVD fine - any media.

Have tried an SVCD disc or two friend made with DVD2SVCD - apparently CinemaCraft encoder is fully compliant - these did not play properly - skipped after about 20 seconds then went a bit corrupt and jerky for rest of playback.

My question is "are most or all SVCD capable machines fussy about exact compliance???

This item was edited on Friday, 15th November 2002, 22:36

Have you tried writing your home-grown disks at a slower write speed?

I`ve been told that CD-R written at high speed can be less reliable.

Thanks, but yes I`ve only got an old slow (4x) Teac CD-RW writer - don`t come much slower. i think it is just down to standalone`s having less tolerance for non (even slightly) compliant formats of mpeg.

I`m having similar problems with my movies. I have a digital video camera and I cannot get my player to play the cd`s I have put my films on.

I like Nero but use the below free program for my VCD/SVCD`s. Chapters as well!

http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcdeasyhowto.htm

Ascomdog,
There`s a plug-in available from Nero that re-encodes any video that you drag to the compilation window (when compiling SVCDs). It makes a fully compliant SVCD (576x488 25 fps MPEG2 @ about 1.8mBit/sec) video stream.
So far EVERYTHING I`ve compiled with this has played 100% OK with the standalone DVD/VCD/SVCD player.
If you ask me nicely (send a message with your e-mail) I could let you have an evaluation copy of the plug-in. Only drawback is that it takes AAAAAGES to re-encode the vid (even on my Athlon 2000+ machine).

It`s a shame because DVD2SVCD `backups` of DVDs play fine in the PC with Power DVD 4.0 XP - just don`t play well in the standalone.

MicoMan,
Thanks for the tip - looks like an expert site - their advice is very much like "..what plays on a PC doesn`t neccessarily play OK on standalones". Good link at the VCDeasy site:
http://www.vcdeasy.org/modules.php?name=_Guides&id=FirstVCD

:-)

This item was edited on Tuesday, 19th November 2002, 22:28