Hello, I am desperate in making SVCD. I tried so many times, but always failed. Want to give up almost. I use tMPGEnc (beta 12) to encode any MPEG file to make MPEG-PAL SVCD. Then I burn it to CD-R with Nero 5. The result: "Always work with Windows Media Player, but cannot work with VCD player". I try many different model and type of VCD player with SVCD capability, such as Sony, JVC, Panasonic, but it's just the same. No Picture, choppy sound, can't recognize the disk. I wonder if I get a wrong perception here. Does SVCD work with VCD player or just DVD player? Does SVCD version matter?

By the way, what is the best CD-R color to burn SVCD and to burn VCD? Is it silver, gold, blue, or light green? Thank you for everything.

-- Beni K. (b_kartono@hotmail.com), September 08, 2000

Answers

so amy questions. First off many player support SVCD, but not cd- r's. Their is a site that lists compatibilty http://www.vcdhelper.com/

I use SVCD daily on my pioneer without a hitch. Current;y there is only one offical SVCD version 1.0.

I perfer the yellow/gold back disks, as they seem to be the most reliable of the bunch.

-- eric (eric@nospam.snowmoon.com), September 08, 2000.

Hello Beni.

As far as I know, the Windows Media Player can not play SVCDs. The Windows Media Player only read and play MPEG1 files which are from VCDs.

SVCDs uses MPEG2 files.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Roberto Gomez Torres Mexico City, Mexico robertogt@bigfoot.com

-- Roberto Gomez Torres (robertogt@bigfoot.com), September 08, 2000.

Hi Gomez, Yes, you're right. Windows Media Player always play MPEG1. In this case, I have installed Ligos MPEG2 Player on my PC. Windows Media Player uses this Ligos decoder to decode any MPEG2 file (i.e. SVCD). Thanks.

-- Beni K. (b_kartono@hotmail.com), September 09, 2000.

Wich pioneer player do you got? have the dv-717 and it does not play SVCD. =/

-- EMil Gruno (emil@gruno.org), October 29, 2000.

First off if you are going to encode to vcd to play in a dvd player there are two things that the dvd player MUST have. One obviously is it must be able to play vcd's. Two it must be CDR and CDRW compatable. IF it isnt CDR and CDRW compatable you can burn vcd's any way you want and they wont play. I am in the process of doing the same thing and they play fine on my dvd player. Here are a couple of sites that might help you out. http://www.divx- 4.tv/tutorials/burningavcd.shtml This site has a list of dvd players that have cdr and cdrw compatability. http://www.thunderdigital.com/cdrdvd.htm

-- Jim (jimandann@home.com), May 21, 2001.

Yes, I am on the verge of buying a dvd player that can play burned/CD- R SVCDs. My question is that if it can play VCD's, and has compatibility with CD-R/CD-RW, is it basically assured that a CD-R SVCD will work on it?

-- Justin (jjlxrage@hotmail.com), March 05, 2002.

Justin, I have an LG DVD 4941 player, that plays DVD, VCD, CD-R/RW & mp3. Problem is, it doesn't play SVCD. Hence it's not tue to assume if you have VCD & CD-R&RW support that it will play SVCD unless it states explicitly that the player supports it.

Beni K, I've heard that burning at a lower speed may help (4x or less)? don't know how true though.

-- Arvie (dj_rv13@hotmail.com), April 10, 2002.

Yep , you will need to install an mpeg2 decoder to your pc for media to play it(svcd).

-- Dave Fox (Davefox64@hotmail.co.uk), January 27, 2003.