Video CD help-- popping audio

[Ryukumu]

Now that I've got a shiny new 24x Lite-On CDRW as well as an Apex 1500 that plays video CDs, I was going to make some video CDs to play on the DVD player. Well, the VCD burned okay, and it does play on my DVD player but there's a problem with the audio. There's lots of random popping sounds. It gets irritating really, really fast. The source AVIs I'm using sound just fine on my computer.

I use Nero 5.5 to burn VCDs (came with the CDRW), and I use 80min TDK brand CDR disks. The popping seems to occur at a constant rhythm of about one pop a second.

EDIT: I've tinkered around and tried playing the VCD on more then one thing. The audio pop happens both on my DVD player and on my computer (watching it off of PowerDVD), so it's not just my DVD player being wierd. The actual burning process must be putting in these audio pops.

EDIT #2: I'm trying to encode the source AVI into MPEG with a different program (TMPGenc), I'll post how well it works (or doesn't) later.

 

[Ryukumu]

Er... well, I've had mixed results. Just for some trial runs, I encoded the first 5 minutes or so into MPEG (using TMPGenc) and there were no audio pops whatsoever. However, when I left my computer on overnight to fully encode the same video file, my computer froze. I attribute this to a mistake on my part, as I also left VirtualDub on and encoding another lengthy video clip. I doubt encoding two video clips at once is a good idea. 😱

 

[Ryukumu]

Well, I got the thing to encode okay on TMPGenc to one of the VCD spec sets (352x240, 23.976 fps). While after burning the VCD the audio pop is gone, now the audio and video are out of sync when the VCD is played! UGH!!!

The source MPEG file is not out of sync when played on the computer. Nero DOES warn me that the MPEG file is not the right 'data stream' or whatever.

EDIT: I found out that there are actual templates within TMPGenc that encode to a VCD standard. With luck, maybe this is what I've been looking for. I'll post my results.

EDIT #2: Problem solved! Encoded the video using the template in TMPGEnc, burned it with Nero (Nero had no complaints or warnings about the file), and it plays fine on my Apex 1500.