SVCD is cut short on standalone DVD player

[Swan]

I'm encoding my SVCDs with TMPGEnc and authoring with VCDEasy.
The results are great, but I'm having an odd annoyance that I wonder if it's the DVD player's fault or not. And if there's anything I can do about it.

The SVCD (Mpeg-2 file) is not played all the way to the end. When one second remains of the total video, the player pauses the video.
It doesn't pause on the *very last frame* like I want it to, but pauses one second before the video content actually ends. I have tried various settings in VCDEasy, but nothing seems to do the trick.

/Swan

[rolonzos2]

If this happens on a stand alone player, but not on a computer, it's the player. It may even happen on many players.

What I've found for a work around is to encode an extra second or so more than I actually want. Then, the player stops when I want it to. On a computer, it'll play that extra bit, but it's not a big deal.

[Swan]

Thanks, rolonzos2. This is soo annoying!
Good to hear it's not all that unusual.

Your solution sounds easy enough. But I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to copy a suitable length (a short, say a few seconds long, clip) of the main video, make it totally black and silent, encode that to SVCD Mpeg-2 (using the same bitrate as the main video) and appending that to the end of the video? So, one adds a few seconds of total black to the video...

Or, how about adding a totally black mpeg still picture after the main video and setting it in VCDEasy to play for 10 seconds or so, would that force the player to pause on the still, instead of pausing one second too soon in the main video?

I'll try that, now that I know it's not just my player that does this. :-)

/Swan

[htc10825]

the best solution is to update the firmware of your player or - if you have a philips player - buy a new one.

[rolonzos2]

I found this old post and thought it might help:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=40668

It's the answer to the work-around Swan may have been looking for. Hope this still helps.