Ashton wrote:I tried to put my own AMV on a SVCD about two days ago, and I ended up with with something very strange. I got the picture and teh sound just fine, I even got the menu, but unfortunately the motion was extremely chunky. Like, the footage would move for about 3/4 of a second and then stop for 1/4 of a second. It would do this over and over in the same pattern. I don't know what went wrong. Also, why is the aspect ratio of SVCDs 1:1? I mean, isn't the res of a television 720x480?
Actually, analog TV really just has "lines" of resolution, which is where the 480 vertical Res. comes in. IIRC, having 720 lines of horizontal resolution on a DVD is to allow for 16:9 widescreen playback, and 640 is all the effective resolution you really benefit from on a "normal" 4:3 TV set. Hardware DVD players just generate an analog line from however many pixels are allocated for it, approporiate for whichever TV type is flagged in the player's menu.
More to the point: Ashton, have you ever been able to burn and play SVCD files encoded by someone else sucessfully?
Is this on your computer or a hardware player? I'll assume the mpeg file itself plays back fine on your computer off the HD.
Could be your player is having trouble reading the disc fast enough to get all the frames rendered.
Did you burn a CD-R or CDRW?
Did you try playing it with your computer CD drive with DVD playing software?
Do you have another brand/type of disc available to try?
Just a few possibilities to check out.