Winter makes my SVCDs freeze...

AMr9 · 19th January 2002, 11:12

I've a problem that might sound silly to a let, but here it goes...

I've been trying to encode a DVD to SVCD, I tried using DVDx and frameserving with CCE and then TMPGEnc but unfortunately, they all lead me to the same result; a frozen frame while playback!! Now I want to tell you that it can't be a plain filter problems; I already have PowerDVD installed and I already CAN play SVCDs that I've on PowerDVD, but the ones I try to make; NO. I followed the steps in Doom9's guide, I tried NTSC and PAL DVDs, I tried several resolutions, several bitrates, blah blah blah..

The thing is, when I encode the clip using DVDx as the encoder the output file works fine, except for the miserable quality of course. Also, when I try to encode to MPEG-1 using CCE it also works fine. I don't know, but it seems as if the problems exists between DVDx and the MPEG-2 encoder!

Another thing that [i]mayp/i] be of a relation to this. I've Encore Dxr3, and it installs its filters so that it could play MPEG-2 content from Windows Media Player (at least it looks like that when I see the current active filters when playing an MPEG-2 file, but also, all it gets is a black picture with sound even with external SVCDs.

I've a P4 CPU, does the resize filter used in encoding differ with this? I tried both BiCubic and SSE BiCubic but no difference!

19th January 2002, 11:12	#1 \| Link
AMr9 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 5	Winter makes my SVCDs freeze... I've a problem that might sound silly to a let, but here it goes... I've been trying to encode a DVD to SVCD, I tried using DVDx and frameserving with CCE and then TMPGEnc but unfortunately, they all lead me to the same result; a frozen frame while playback!! Now I want to tell you that it can't be a plain filter problems; I already have PowerDVD installed and I already CAN play SVCDs that I've on PowerDVD, but the ones I try to make; NO. I followed the steps in Doom9's guide, I tried NTSC and PAL DVDs, I tried several resolutions, several bitrates, blah blah blah.. The thing is, when I encode the clip using DVDx as the encoder the output file works fine, except for the miserable quality of course. Also, when I try to encode to MPEG-1 using CCE it also works fine. I don't know, but it seems as if the problems exists between DVDx and the MPEG-2 encoder! Another thing that [i]mayp/i] be of a relation to this. I've Encore Dxr3, and it installs its filters so that it could play MPEG-2 content from Windows Media Player (at least it looks like that when I see the current active filters when playing an MPEG-2 file, but also, all it gets is a black picture with sound even with external SVCDs. I've a P4 CPU, does the resize filter used in encoding differ with this? I tried both BiCubic and SSE BiCubic but no difference! __________________ "Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."