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I found out accidently that changing the horizontal resolution from 480 to 352 (SVCD european standard), significantly improves the picture quality (which is hard to belive - until you have seen it).
Thus it was possible to reduce the video bitrate from
2300 to 1900, to get 45 min on one 700 MB CD
(typical TV series are always 42 min + commercials)
I did this and everything, video and audio, is fine (one all players I have tested), as long as you play the CD sequentially.
If you jump or fast foreward/backward, the players (all of them) jump to the wrong position, approx. 20% behind the correct one.
I burn the CD with Nero and found out that Nero also shows an incorrect length of the movie.
Does anyone know a way to correct the timing (in one of the SVCD mastering files) so that the players jump to the correct position.
The Format you are talking about isn"t SVCD it is called CVD or "China Video Disk" it is Basicly the same as SVCD but the resolution is 352+480/576-Pal...It is the same as the Half D1 DVD Standard...VCD"s and SVCD"s are not meant to be Navigated that way, you are Supposed to put in Chapters so you can navigate the Movie properly, you can add chapters to you Movie useing VCDEasy and any number of other SVCD authoring Programs....
Remember that you can fit 800 MB in mpg format on SVCD/CVD/VCD. If you use maximum standard SVCD bitrate then you'll fit 40 minutes on a 80 minutes/700 MB CD-R because the SVCD standard is specified to maximum 2X CD rotation speed. So the 80 minutes will be played in 40 minutes time at 2X speed.
To get 45 minutes of SVCD you can use an audio bitrate of 192 kbit/s and an average video bitrate of 2226 kbit/s. With a video bitrate of 1900 kbit/s you can fit 52 minutes in SVCD/CVD format on a 80 min/700 MB CD if you use 192 kbit/s audio.
The only way to correct the time is to use something other than Nero to author the SVCD prior to burning. I recommend using VCDeasy (http://www.vcdeasy.org). VCDeasy is quirky as heck, at least when I've used it, but it does correctly author SVCDs. Don't get me wrong, I like Nero a lot and use it all the time, but the authors took a lot of shortcuts to make SVCD burning work and some of what Nero does is just not right. The time problem you're seeing is only one example. The failure of FF/REW and Time Search to all work on Nero burned SVCD discs is another.
"....significantly improves the picture quality (which is hard to belive - until you have seen it)..."
It's true...I found this out for myself several weeks ago. SVCD captures on my ATI AIW 8500DV with digital cable were a bit noisey-you could see the pixels crawling around in the background...even at 2500kbs.
Simply switching resolution to 352x480 made an incredible improvement! I have found that bitrates as low as 1400 with 128kbs audio will yield a little over 70 minutes of video to a CD, and the vid quality while not as good as my prefered > = 1950kbs, is adequate.
If you use VCDEasy to burn, the latest version 1.17 has an option to disable non-compliance warnings on KVCD compliant mpegs, such as the one you describe.
I found with My All In wonder 8500DV that I would Get A LOT better Quality if I used WinDVR 3.0 to capture My Video useing a bitrate of 20,000kbs then re-encodeing the Captured file to a Lower Bitrate...This Produces Much better Quality than if you use MMC to Capture at SVCD Bitrates...Just a Tip that will greatly improove your VCD/SVCD/DVD/CVD"s Quality....Cheers
"...better Quality if I used WinDVR 3.0 to capture..."
No doubt about it...I think WinDVR has the best realtime mpeg2 encoder on the market. Even with the standard SVCD template, results are remarkable. In my mind, the ultimate would be if MMC 8.x were combined with Intervideo's mpeg2 codec. However, I'm quite happy with MMC @ 352x480...quality is comparable to WinDVR's SVCD.
352x480 follows the dvd-standard as ½D1 and it will play on all dvd-players.
When you create cvd's at 352x480 remember to use 48khz audio - not normal 44khz - this way your captures can be used directly for dvd-authoring when you get a dvd-burner and want to put your cvd's on dvd instead.