Hey Everyone -- I've been told to check my settings, I'm trying to make a vcd using TMPGEnc. The final MPEG looks great. If I put the burned disc in my CD-ROM and click on the drive, it says "D:/ Is not accessable, Incorrect Function". When I put it in my DVD player (which does play burned vcd's), the player looks as if its playing but all I see is a blue screen. The video is 90min long, NTSC letterbox. Here are my settings in TMPGEnc:

VIDEO Stream Type - MPEG-2 Size - 480x480 Aspect Ratio - 4:3 Display Frame Rate - 29.97fps Rate Control Mode - Constant Bitrate CBR Bitrate - 2166 VBV Buffer Size - 0 Profile and Level - Main Profile & Main Level (MP@ML) Format - NTSC Interlaced - CHECKED YUV Format - 4:2:0 DC Precision - 8 Bits Motion Search - Super High Quality

ADVANCED Frame Type - Interlaced Field Order - Even Field (line 2) first Aspect Ratio - 16:9 525 line (NTSC) Image Position - Full Screen (with aspect ratio)

AUDIO Stream Type(s) - MPEG-Audio Layer II Sampling Frequency - 44100 Channel Mode - Stereo Bitrate - 192

SYSTEM Stream Type(s) - MPEG-2 Super Video-CD (VBR)

HELP PLEASE! quinto98@hotmail.com

-- Tony (quinto98@hotmail.com), May 26, 2001

Answers

What "authoring" program are you using? It sounds like you are trying to just "copy" the Mpeg to the CDR. You must use a program capable of writing an actual SVCD disc. Nero (from Ahead) has an SVCD profile.

Also, although your bit rate is a tad low I wonder HOW you expect to fit 90 minutes on a CDR ?? With 2.3 Mb/s even with VBR you shouldn't be able to fit much more than 43 minutes on the disc. How big is the mpeg file ??

But even once you get past all those problems you still may have a problem. In order to actually "play" an SVCD in your PC like a DVD player ... you'll need an SVCD software player. Otherwise you'll have to find the folder on the SVCD disc where the MPeg content is and then manually click on the various mpeg files to play them. Of course you'll also need an Mpeg-2 decoder installed so that your default media player can decode it.

-- Rich (rich@pcphotovideo.com), May 27, 2001.

Another thing to look at is DOES YOUR DVD PLAYER PLAYS SVCD DISK?

-- ktnwin (ktnwin@excite.com), June 01, 2001.