DVD2SVCD productions work - other's MPEGs & SVCD imgs do not - WHY?

[lat4lunch]

Nearly every single 2,3 & 4 CD SVCD set I produce using DVD2SVCD is perfect every time (great stuff!). However, it's nice to download other people's efforts from the newsgroups now and then, either as SVCD images (burned using VCDEasy, DVD2SVCD, or whatever they're using)or as 800+MB MPEGs. The former, SVCD images, I process by mounting in FantomCD, then burn using CloneCD. The latter I process in either Nero or VCDEasy. The latter NEVER WORK in my JVC XV-S502 DVD/SVCD player, but they do work on my PC when played using PowerDVD, mostly, not always. Again, my SVCD productions work perfectly on the JVC, most of the time.:confused:

Any ideas whether it's an image format problem or my player, or gremlins...

[WarpEnterprises]

What do you mean with "do not work"?
No picture? Not recognised? Bad sync? ...

[lat4lunch]

Audio playback is broken, skips. Video is blocky (in squares and rectangles) and skips. These same SVCDs, again, play fine on my PC.

[lat4lunch]

Actually, the problem has now expanded to include more of my own recent DVD2SVCD productions, most recently "Enough". Same result as described earlier. I've enclosed the DVD2SVCD_log.txt file, if that might help. I'm at wits end here. Any helpful suggestions appreciated.

[RoopeT]

Taking a look of your log file ... you might have problems with your max bitrate (2550+192), try lowering the video max bit rate a little, to 2520 kbps.

This type of behaviour also happens to me when I burn the SVCD too fast, 16x doesn't work for me but 8x does.

Many people use TMPGEnc for their SVCD encodes, and TMPGEnc doesn't always respect the given max bitrate (when using CQ VBR, at least).

Also using TMPGEnc to multiplex audio and video is not a very good idea, as at least my Philips DVD player can't REW/FF TMPGEnc multiplexed SVCD's properly and time search doesn't work either. Demultiplexing and remultiplexing with bbMpeg helps, the problem is that sometimes VCD / SVCD program streams generated by TMPGEnc cannot be demultiplexed with TMPGEnc!!