KVCD: Black screen with blue lines?
 

I've now done my very first kvcd. It can play without problems on the computer using WinDVD. But now when I tried to play the movie on my dvd player I only saw the first picture of the movie in 1 second and then the screen went black and it came up blue lines on the black screen 8O But I heard the sound.

Why is this happening :cry: Is it because I live in Europe and the movie is NTSC??? My dvd player support SVCD.

Please give me some help :arrow:

//Wolfi//So close now//

It could well be that your player or your TV doesn't support NTSC material. Did you use a PAL resolution ( n x 288 or 576 ) and a frame rate of 25fps?

I tired the KVCDx3 (PAL) tample instead of NTSC and it gave me the same result but this time with green lines :cry: I've now realized that I cant play KVCDx3 on my dvd player on the tv.

Do you think it will work with the SKVCD PAL 352x576 ? or will it give me the same result :?: And how much worser will the quality be now when I will try SKVCD instead of KVCDx3 8O

And should I use the same script in SKVCD PAL 352x576 as I used in KVCDx3?

LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Lars\Skrivbord\Tobias\Program\Blandat\Fit CD\MPEG2DEC.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Lars\Skrivbord\Tobias\Program\Blandat\Fit CD\GripFit_preview.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Lars\Skrivbord\Tobias\Program\Blandat\Fit CD\LegalClip.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Lars\Skrivbord\Tobias\Program\Blandat\Fit CD\Sampler.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Lars\Skrivbord\Tobias\Program\Blandat\Fit CD\DustV5.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Lars\Skrivbord\Tobias\Program\Blandat\Fit CD\TemporalCleanerOld.dll")

AviSource("C:\Documents and Settings\Lars\Skrivbord\Tobias\Lordoftherings.avi" )

LegalClip()
GripCrop( width=528, height=480, overscan=1 ) <-----(Should I switch this to GripCrop( width=352, height=576, overscan=1 ) :?
GripSize()
SpaceDust()
TemporalCleaner()
GripBorders()
LegalClip()
#Sampler(length=24)
## MPEG size = ((Total frames/MovieTimeInMinutes)/24) * MPEG sample file size ##

//Wolfi

The main difference between the resolutions 528(544)x576 and 352x576 is the sharpness IMO. I'm sure you'll get very good quality with the lower resolution, I use it myself quite a lot. The CVD resolution (352x576) might more compatible, I think it's a part of the DVD specs or something like that :?:

I'm not sure about the script as I don't use the GripFit functions myself, but it does look OK to me. I'd go for 2 overscan blocks but that really depends on your TV (how many pixels it will crop off the sides). With 2 overscan blocks the black borders would fill a complete macroblock (each side 16 pixels) which would increase the compressibility of the overscan area quite a lot.

If you want to compare the quality, simply encode a sample strip with both templates and view them on your PC :idea:

Oke, I've now tried with SKVCD and it works :!: :lol: And the quality is good :) But is there any other way to get better quality with SKVCD PAL 352x576 :?: So please tell me.

And thanks for answering Boulder :P

//Wolfi