Why would the added side borders make my standalone freak out

[Holomatrix]

When I use the Autofit thingy with DVD2SVCD and only crop a 1 with the TV overscan thing my DVD player playes the movie all wierd? Green blocks over half the screen, audio skipping ... but if I just use the same filters in the framserver tab without the added borders and encode with that, all is well ??

[RB]

Post the troublemaker script that AutoFitCD created. I always use 2 blocks TV overscan and there never was a problem on my standalone. Does it play well in a software DVD player?

[markrb]

Your symptoms sound just like a bad burn.

If you will please try a slower burn. It may have absolutely nothing to do with it, but it really does sound exactly the same.

Mark

[Holomatrix]

Thanks for responding. Yeh, it plays with PowerDVD, my burner is only a 4 speed anyway but I would have thought the same thing but what the whole story is, is that I had burnt the movie using the 3/4 DVD size (528X480) with the added borders and was getting the wierd/green block video so I figured it was the resolution thing my JVC player was having difficulty with so I encoded again (with the added borders) at my regular res. 352X480 CVD and I got the same video mess. So, I just encoded it again with just the basic script (same filters) in the frameserver tab (Bicubic, Flux and Blockbuster) and everything looks good, hence the reason for the post. What I will do then if no-one else is having this problem I will try and see if my player will read CDRW's and run some small tests.
Thanks

Script:
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("C:\MovieRip\DVD2AV~1.D2V")
# -= AviSynth script by FitCD v1.1.2 =-
BicubicResize(512,352,0,0.6,3,55,714,368)
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Blockbuster\Blockbuster.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Fluxsmooth\Fluxsmooth.dll")
FluxSmooth(5,5)
Blockbuster(method="noise", variance=0.5, seed=1)
AddBorders(8,64,8,64)

[RB]

This is really weird. So you are saying that if you leave out the AddBorders() so the final video has a size of 512x352 (which isn't a valid resolution for any TV system), it works OK?

What happens if you don't use any additional filters but add back the AddBorders()? Also have you tried to move the additional LoadPlugin() lines to the top? What version of AVISynth, what encoder do you use? What does BitrateViewer say about the encoded video?

I also have a JVC player (XV-S300BK) and it plays PAL CVD (352x576) just fine.

[Holomatrix]

Hey, I have the same player :) does it play CDRW? when I get back home I'll try some of your suggestions.

[RB]

Yes, it plays CD-RW, as well as DVD-RW and DVD-R.

[Holomatrix]

Ok, after doing some tests I realized I was messing with my own self :) The encoded movie (no added borders) that I was comparing my added border encode with was actually an MPEG2 encode, I could have sworn it was MPEG1, DOH! which my added border encode is. Ok, so, now your saying what does that have to do with anything?, well it looks like my JVC has a problem playing MPEG1 encodes that stray away from the VCD specks, like XVCD. It plays SVCD, CVD, XSVCD and other variants fine as long as it's MPEG2 but if I do, let's say a weird resolution MPEG1 or even a CVD MPEG1 or XVCD encode it gets confused, hence he messed up video. So, to sum it up it wasn't the border thing at all and if I want to do an MPEG1 encode I need to keep to VCD specks or at the most a VCD VBR at 352X240 res. Sorry for the confusion.

[RB]

OK, good to know :)