I have made the a VCD with the following bit rates 1,810800 bits/sec and 1875600 bits/sec and noticed that they play back with no audio or video problems except that if I fast forward or rewind and hit play the audio drops out. This player has a feature that allows you to stop the playback and resume at the same point where you last stopped it. When I do this the audio works fine. I have been getting excellent resolution using the higher bit rates. I went back and watched a video cd at the standard rates that I made from a commercial VHS tape( Best of John Belushi) and there is so much pixelation that I can't see going any other route but to use the higher bit rates. I'm just going to hate having to not have menus. I used NTI's demo version and I also noticed there is a brief pause between clips.

-- Al McCraw (amccraw@ix.netcom.com), March 04, 2000

Answers

Hey AL here is how i fixed the audio/video problem so the highrates (mine are at the max for pioneer 2500bitrate) play fine. i know you capture using a video card in avi form. But do you use the Panasonic encoder to convert to the rate you want, or do you "as its captured its donme" and just burn from there? If you use the panasonic on the advanced options screen, YOU MUST change the "vbr buffer rate", to "manual" and change it to "150". Im really not to sure as to what this really does but it will fix your problem. If you make the vbr buffer rate higher then that the audio will still skip when playing.

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), March 04, 2000.

Also i noticed that after my encoding is done(panasonic) if i have to edit the clip i made for whatever reason, after i edit it seems to wipe out what i made the vbr buffer rate to, so upon playing the audio skips again. So if you have to do this try to edit before encoding. thanks

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), March 04, 2000.