My DVD player is scrambling my VCDs.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:17 pm

Ok, when I try to play my VCDs on my DVD player (which by the way supports VCD playback), the picture gets all scrambled and blocky and tend to skip. Any idea of what I should do? This problem NEVER happened before until just now. Just for reference, I have an APEX AD-1000 DVD/MP3/VCD player, and I'm trying to play a VCD 2.0.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:19 pm

What aspect ratio are the videos? I once made the mistake of mixing 352x240 and 640x480 MPEG-1s on a VCD (this was before I knew what I was doing aspect-ratio-wise), and the 640x480 episode, though it played fine on our DVD player at home, choked up something terrible on a different one (that played the 352x240s fine).

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:21 pm

I believe it's 4:3.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:27 pm

I'm a moron.

What I meant to say was: what <I>resolution</i> are the videos at?

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:31 pm

It's definetely 352x240. Heck, it event passed the VCD compliance test in Roxio.

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Sun May 23, 2004 9:27 am

i have an apex dvd player also, the skipping is due to the source footage...

if you set it up to convert an (divx)avi to the mpeg for the vcd usage, its divx thats causing the skipping, certain divx builds dont like to be made into an mpeg

if you can convert the divx avi to an uncompressed avi
wav audio
uncompressed video

then use your vcd making prog and go through the encoding process again and it shouldnt skip on you

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sun May 23, 2004 9:35 am

That's what I did, unfortunetely. Man, now I to reburn all those videos.

Well, thanks for helping me.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:44 am

OMG, necropost!

Ok, will it work if I converted the video to huffyuv by using VirtualDubMod?

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:46 pm

What are you using to create the .mpg files that you're sending to Roxio, or are you just importing the AVIs into the program?

If you're using an external encoder (like TMPGEnc), then converting to Huffy before you encode will probably be fine.

If you're importing directly, I really don't know how well it will work, since I haven't worked with Roxio's burning products since they were still part of Adaptec.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:18 pm

Ok, any AMVS that are in an .avi formats (either encoded in Divx or Xvid), I use VirtualDub in order to break off the video and audio and convert them to their uncompressed formats. Some AMVs (mostly Janzki's videos) have this VDR encoding error when I load up the video into VirtualDub, so I load those videos into VirtualDubMod and convert it to huffyuv (I don't think VirtualDubMod has the ability to seperate that video and the audio). Then I loaded up those uncompressed videos and audios and MPEGs into TMPEGnc, and then convert them to VCD compliant MPEGS.