xvcd playback duration displayed wrong

[noobsaibot]

Hi there!
Last night I tried to enconded a movie which is 90 min long to XVCD using TMPGEnc.

Whereas the VCD standard is 80 Min for 80min cdrs, I lowered the sound quality from 224 to 96 kbps, so that I could fit more video with the default video bitrate (1150). The final movie was 800Mb and was playing ok in media player, even showing the total play time (90 min). Then I burned a disc on Nero under the option "VideoCD". It was ok.

The problem is: When I play the disc on a home DVD player, it displays the total time as being 1:18:30 (or 78min,30sec).

At first I thought the movie had been somehow clipped, but to my surprise the whole movie was there, I skiped to 78 min and it was nearly the end and then the credits.

A similar problem occured when I did a 2 cd SVCD. But this SVCD was made using DVD2SVCD program. Later I found out in the guide by Doom9 that there is a option in DVD2SVCD called "useEntrySVD" that could fix time display problems, haven't tried it yet. How could I perform this "useEntrySVD" in TMPGEnc?

Anyway, does anyone know what/where I could have done wrong?

[jsoto]

Hi noobsaibot,

You aren't doing anything wrong.

AFAIK, settop player calculates the play time using a estimation based on the number of sectors, that means, based on the mpg size. So, if you are not using the standard Constant Bit Rate, you will not be able to have the right time.

useEntrySVCD is related to authoring, not to encoding. You can set it in dvd2svcd but also using VCDEasy (if you have already your mpg file), or simply setting the switch in your xml file (using VCDXBuild)

<option name="svcd vcd30 entrysvd" value="true"/>

jsoto