No stills, menus, "Next/Previous" functionality--SVCD

[Karovaldas]

I have a Sony NC655P stand-alone DVD carouselle player and it has been wonderful for me in accepting all kinds of non-standard VCD and SVCD input. However, I seem to be having one persistent problem with SVCD stills and navigation.

I author with VCDEasy and Nero 6.0. In either case, everything works as it should in the case of VCD. However, when I produce an SVCD stream, I only get the stream. Here's what's wrong:

1. Still pictures/menus are never displayed. When they are the first in the list of files, the player simply skips them and acts like nothing is there.

2. "Previous" and "Next" buttons are not working. Chapters are produced but, in order to navigate them, I have to use "Chapters" and then enter the nubmers with the number pad and press enter.

Given that the DVD player "understands" VCD perfectly, and accepts SVCD streams with as much as 3200 Kbps of data, what is going on with the SVCD and the stills? I mostly author with VCDEasy, but I made a SVCD slide show with NeroVision and the same story--the slides play, the music plays, but the cover still mpeg-2 does not show up despite the fact that the other slides in the slideshow are also pseudo-mpegs--stills.

Anybody has the same issues?
Anybody got solutions?

By the way, there are no warnings of any sort when the SVCDs are authored...

Haris
hsubaci@luc.edu

[Karovaldas]

No one here seems to know what I am talking about? Could people at least post their reactions; e.g., "Never had a problem with stills in SVCD!"

In the meantime, I received a generic reply from SONY who said that this particular player only supports VCD format (if I am reading their crypic message correctly).

Here's their reply:


The SONY DVP-NC655P DVD Player can only Play the following discs

. DVD VIDEO

. DVD-RW

. VIDEO CD

. Music CD

Please note the SONY DVP-NC655P DVD Player cannot play the following
discs:

. All CD-ROMs (including PHOTO CDs)/CD-Rs/CD-RWs other than those
recorded in the following
formats
-Music CD format
-Video CD format
-MP3 format that conforms ISO9660* Level 1/Level 2, or its extended
format, Joliet

. Data part of CD-Extras

. DVD-ROMs

. DVD Audio discs

. HD layer on Super Audio CDs

. A logical format of files and folders on CD-ROMs, defined by ISO
(International standard
Organization).

Also, the player cannot play the following discs:

. A DVD VIDEO with a different region code.

. A disc recorded in a color system other than NTSC, such as PAL or
SECAM.(This player
conforms to NTSC color system.)

. A disc that has a non-standard shape(e.g, card, heart).

. A disc with paper or stickers on it.

. A disc that has the adhesive of cellophane tape or a sticker still
left on it.

[jsoto]

1.- I never have problems with stills, but doing a search with stills+problem I found some threads (may be they are not applicable in your case)

2.- Usually Next and Previous need PBC off. Did you turn off your PBC in the remote?. There are a lot of threads in this forum talking about it.

Also, some additional information will be needed to help you, like:
- does PowerDVD or WinDVD play correctly your SVCDs with next/previous and stills?
- are you using selections or playlist when authoring?. I'm not sure if VCDEasy allows playlist, but anyway the recommended option is to use selections.

jsoto