VCD burning problem! Inadequate computer setup???

AnitaPeterson

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Apr 24, 2001
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Hi there,

I have worked hard on putting some old laserdiscs in MPEG1 format, (thanks TMPGEnc!) to burn them on VCDs, so that they would work on my Panasonic RP-56 player.

However, although the resulting files will play just fine and without any glitch on my computer, once I burn them to CD-R, at some points in the film the image becomes pixelated and stutters.

Thinking that I'm using the wrong media, I tried several CD-R brands, and burned them using two different programs: Nero and VCD Easy. Always burning at 2x - the slowest available on my CD-RW.

It did not help.

I also discovered that a couple of Divx - this time! - movies which were playing without any trouble on my machine while they were stored on the hard drive will similarly stutter badly when burned onto a CD and played back on the main rig or the secondary one.

Could it be that my setup is faulty? As you can also see in my profile, the computer contains the following:

900 megahertz Intel Pentium III
Creative Technology Ltd. M003 Intel i440BX AGPset
384 Megabytes Installed Memory
Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller with two HDs: a 40 GB Maxtor and an 80 GB WD, both @ 7200 rpm
Creative SB Live! (WDM)
LITE-ON LTR-16102C [CD-ROM drive] as Master on IDE 1 (PIO Mode)
CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD6240E [CD-ROM drive] as Slave on IDE 1 (PIO Mode)
ATAPI 48X CDROM [CD-ROM drive] as Master on IDE 2 (PIO Mode)

I'm running Win2k Professional (haven't changed that info in the profile, my bad...)

Has anyone else encountered this kind of recording/playback error?




 

Demon-Xanth

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Feb 15, 2000
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I can tell you one thing, you are NOT CPU limited. MPEG1 files require very little in the CPU area (P200 est.). You might try getting a different MPEG codec and see if that has any effect or try using MPEG corrector.

You might also try asking in the Video forum.
 

BigJohnKC

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Aug 15, 2001
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I second the codec notion. I've seen it before where a non-standard codec that my roommate installed caused the color to bleed on the vcd encoded mpeg files I encoded with it. Good Luck.
 

clarkmo

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VCDHelp
Saw you were already using vcdeasy. Try vcdhelp.com
Also, the type of media you are using matters. Players are unpredictable about which works best. Try different brands.
 

UCDznutz

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May 11, 2002
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does your dvd player play svcd's? if so i would re-encode them as SVCD's with a higher bitrate and such. might get better results. can't help you out with the errors you're getting though