X(S)VCD problems with PHILIPS machines (Hick-Ups)

Philips players don't care about video resolution on svcd's. If you have mpeg-1 sources you need to mux them to svcd with bbmpeg. Players also doesn't like too high bitrates. 2650 video + 224 audio is bigger than svcd-spec(2650 max.). As I said resolution doesn't matter if muxing and burning as svcd (eben mpeg-1 works in svcd).

Thanx. In the meantime I also found out that "magical" formula for Philips ( video+audio <2650 ) for (X)SVCD What do you mean btw with muxing them to mpeg2 if it's a mpeg1 ? Do you mean that when it's a XVCD/MPEG1 with a rate over 1150/224 (=1374) then a Philips player won't accept it either ? And so remuxing it to (X)SVCD/MPEG2 solves this ? So with xVCD/MPEG1 the limit (for Philips) is set to 1374 ? Giving a rule like; In case of a PHILIPS DVD-player (X)SVCD / MPEG2 = max. 2650 (X)VCD / MPEG1 = max. 1374 ???? Greetz Mars-L

I am not sure is it the bitrate or the resolution in xvcd's which doesn't work. I noticed that my 727 plays even 704*576 mpeg-1 from svcd.

Why 704x576 ? I've seen people using that, but I always use 720x576. Is that wrong or also an option ?

704x576 is also dvd compliant. You can use it for XVCD. But I'll not recommend it except you want to play your dvd-rips on dvd-players which cannt play SVCDs. Generally the dvd players produced by Philips are very, very bad for playing back the (X)SVCDs which are common in the szene. So sell it and never buy it in the future.

Thanx ! I know about those PHILIPS that's why I didn't buy it. (I reffered to a friend and my parents) Personally I wouldn't want any other machine then my Apex600 / Hiteker BI-600 or any other machine that fits the "One Firmware For All" (Sampo reworked firmware) It plays all discs you put in it, even raw VOB (i.e. just 1 VOB file on CDR), MPEG or JPEG files, MiniDVD, MaxiCD, VCD, XVCD, CVD, SVCD, XSVCD, CDDA etc... All it misses is capability to play CD+G, CD-I, SACD, DivX. ;-))

Senior Member Adam has said his Apex dvd player cannt correctly play the SVCDs which are over 40min long, after 40min you'll get asyncron of audio on SVCDs. Have you tested this on your player? There are a few features those are (very) rarely supported: 1. MP3-Tags v1/v2 2. MP3 long file name, directory-play and album-play 3. menu support for MP3 songs 4. CD-Text for Audio CD (a new YAMAHA player has this but for 300$) A few years ago I've made many audio CD with CD-Text(song title and artist) but there is no HiFi equipment except 2 SONY Player(but very, very dear) support it. Also there is no software player do that - it should be easier to implement it in a windows application! But no one did it!!! Every one implement the function to get the info form internet/CDDB. But my CDs are self-compilations, not in internet! 5. Cursor/pointer/active-choice support for (S)VCDs According to (S)VCD standard you can define "hot points(area)" on vcd menu to make selection via. mouse/pointer etc. So in software player PowerDVD/WinDVD you can do it but on standalone there is no mouse and the arrow-keys are inactive. It should be easier to implement(activate) the arrow keys! But no one did it!!! P.S.: I've made many VCD/SVCDs with the mouse support but I cannt activate this function on dvd players.