choppy playback

[quasimoto]

I just want to start by saying thanks for all of the excellent help you have all been giving me for I am a newbie to this site and ripping in general. To start off I have been sitting here for hours and hours sifting through all of the information here. Had a few problems and they have been solved, thanks again.

My newest problem, which I can'y seem to find and answer to is choppy playback after the movie has been burned to diskon my brand new panasonic 5 disk DVD player. I'm using DVDTOSVCD and have tried both Nero and CDRWin at various speeds. Nothing is working. I have tried using the fool proof burning method using Virtual DAEMON Manager and WinDVD 3.0. I did play like it in WinDVD and it played perfectly on my computer, however I did a disk copy with Nero and it still played choppy. Its about every second there is a pause.

Appreciate some suggestions, would rather not have to go through 16 hours of encoding again just to realize that wasn't the problem. I'm so close please help.

My system:
1.5 GB pentium 4
256 MB SDRAM
24X Lite-On Burner
Windows XP
It seems like every piece of software for DVD ripping out there.

Thanks in advance

Quasimoto

[chainsaw135]

You could go here http://www.vcdhelper.com/ and double check make sure that your dvd player will play svcd's, also without seeing any dvd2svcd log files or you posting the information i dont know if you might of put the bitrate 2 high.

[markrb]

I know this doesn't answer your question directly and is something you may hate to hear, but Panasonic players are terrible at playing SVCD's and VCD's. Maybe the newer ones are better, but I have not seen many that do a good job. For the most part Japanese players (Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc...) are really bad at supporting them even if they say they do. Believe it or not the cheap Chinese players are much better at SVCD's since there is a huge market for these in their home country. Look at Apex for instance an excellent SVCD player, but only a so-so DVD player. The once exception to this rule is Pioneer. They have pretty good SVCD support.
I would have to point my finger first at the DVD player. Check out the list at www.vcdhelp.com and see what the comments are on this player. If you intend to make many SVCD's I would recomend grabbing a really cheap Apex AD-1500 unit (about $70 US) if you can and dedicate it to them. If your player gets good marks there then maybe you need to play with your bitrates a little. You may be too high or low for you player to play right. Check the list and report back. I would have looked it up, but you didn't give a model number.

Chainsaw135 posted as I was typing and WOW I had no idea vcdhelp had 2 domains. Nice to know.

Mark

[da franksta]

what bitrate did you use? can you append a log-file?

[quasimoto]

Well thanks found my player on the compatibility list and apperantely I'm not the only one, seems it will play SVCD's but they are very choppy. Darn it. It will play VCD though so maybe thats what I have to do. Thanks for help.