pnag
12th June 2003, 12:25
Hi folks,
I recently did a job for someone where there were 8 segments (of differing lengths) that had to be placed on CD and made playable through an HTML "frontend" webpage. Easy enough, and they wanted it to be MPEG-1 VCD quality. Fine; except that the footage came through at 72 minutes long - it simply would not fit on the CD. So, I ran a the longest of the 8 segments (23 mins) thru TMPGEnc and lowered the bitrate from 1150 to 850. Perfect, and the result was acceptable. The problem now is, this one segment won't play in certain machines! (Dell Latitiude 610 laptops, to be precise). It'll play in older machines, newer machines, the whole lot, but not this specific kind - the video and audio streams get screwed up. Any ideas? Tried upgrading Windows Media Player, and it made no difference...
Thanks,
PnaG.
I recently did a job for someone where there were 8 segments (of differing lengths) that had to be placed on CD and made playable through an HTML "frontend" webpage. Easy enough, and they wanted it to be MPEG-1 VCD quality. Fine; except that the footage came through at 72 minutes long - it simply would not fit on the CD. So, I ran a the longest of the 8 segments (23 mins) thru TMPGEnc and lowered the bitrate from 1150 to 850. Perfect, and the result was acceptable. The problem now is, this one segment won't play in certain machines! (Dell Latitiude 610 laptops, to be precise). It'll play in older machines, newer machines, the whole lot, but not this specific kind - the video and audio streams get screwed up. Any ideas? Tried upgrading Windows Media Player, and it made no difference...
Thanks,
PnaG.