16:9 SVCD impossible?

hello all!

I got a huge problem encoding my 16:9 prograssive source material into a 16:9 SVCD. no matter what settings I use in TmpgEnc I end up with a jumpy wiggly picture on my wide screen TV. It is horrible I really don't know what to do.

 

When encoding with TmpgEnc go to settings and make sure to keep the source aspect ratio at 1:1 and use the advanced tab to set your video arrange method to Full Screen (keep aspect ratio 2). This will give you a widescreen version svcd but it will have borders on any widescreen tv. The only other way to do it is to change the source to 16:9, this will get rid of the borders and give you a great full screen 16:9 picture but is only compatible with certain players.

 

So if my video is all jumpy and wiggles from left to right on my TV it is a player incompatiblity issue? 100% sure?

 

100% sure. My DVD player will play them ok (Naiko 2081) but both my friends wont (Dansai 1010)One has a 28' normal tv the other a widescreen tv but both have the same symptoms when playing the svcd. It is just a rather jumpy picture and changing settings doesnt help.

 

I use nero to burn them

 

I burn at 48 speed using nero and never had any problems. Why do you only burn at 4x?. Is there a specific reason for this?. I dont see what the problems of higher burning speeds are.

 

Burning at slower speeds doesn't have any benefits. If you don't have a sloppy cheap cd writer you can burn your vcds at 40x or whatever. I have never had a single problem burning at that speed.

 

If I remember from a while ago 2x and 4x were recommended before Burnproof was introduced and when burners were slower because the computer caused a bottleneck when sending information to them causing stuttering. But with the introduction of 52x burners and larger buffer cache these problems go away. I always remember an article that stated the best thing to do to get a good audio, vcd, or data burn was to use a computer of around P300 with 64M and a burn speed of 2x-4x, This is from about 4-5 years ago during my Playstation backup days (I had a P300 celeron and a 4x burner)

 

flobbo,
You said this: Burning at slower speeds doesn't have any benefits. If you don't have a sloppy cheap cd writer you can burn your vcds at 40x or whatever. I have never had a single problem burning at that speed.
Burning VCD/SVCD at high speeds= DANGEROUS (the girl is soo dangerous). Anyways, many home dvd palyers& dvd roms CAN'T read VCD/SVCD burned at high speeds resulting in "pixelation" playback problems. It is recommended by experts to burn NO faster than 1/4th of your total burners write speed (CD-R/W). It has nothing to do with a "generic" burner as well. If you wanna live "on the edge" burning VCD/SVCD at high burning speeds, don't say you've been warned, lol. Best write speed for VCD/SVCD is 4x, Safe write speed for burning VCD/SVCD 8x. Anything above this I don't personally recommend, nor does the author of the great program Eazy VCD (ChickenMan).
Eazy VCD: http://members.eezi.net.au/~phatjeff/
ChickenMans tutorials, courtesy CD-Freaks:
http://forum.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=66&s=64e122d93923c6fff81a0d440ba989dd

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I actually started this thread to find out if 16:9 encoding was possible with SVCDs. Now I know it is but my dvd player doesn't support it. Tough luck.
To all the slow burners out there:
What's the use of having a 40x writer if you gotta continue to write in 4x to make cds work?
I burn everything at max speed which is 40x and I get GREAT vcd/svcd playback on my dvd player as well as great data cds. I have not had one single cd fail since I got my 40x writer.
And if there should be a vcd that has poor playback one day then so be it. Throw it in the garbage and grab a new cd. Max speed burning rocks. That's my 2 cents.

 

Look underneath this post. I have a Polaroid BurnMAX48x speed cd burner. If I followed your theory I would also encounter "possible" playback problems backing up SecuROM 4.8.x as it is recommended to read/write the image at 8x (sub-q),or some other cd protection. Again, the issue isn't how fast can I burn, it's "what burn speed is safe to burn a particlar format". Besides, whats the rush after all that encoding time? Dela(James) provided a link, did he answer your question 16:9? I provided a link to 1 of ChickenMans tutorials, did that help?

Shoey

 

Thread edited James, lol

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