May I start by saying how delighted I am to be part of this forum, I know that kvcd will enrich my life and have already achieved moderate success in the week I have been encoding my own kvcds, due to this forum.
In the main I have used "the idiots guide" as well as bits of other peoples guides to cobble together some of my own kvcds from avi.
I am amazed at the results, the fact that I have already myself encoded 2hrs 10 min "vcd" quality (352x240) onto 1 80min CD, which played extremely well apart from the small problem I will outline.
I have also been brave enough to encode a 1hr 40min "dvd" quality (704x480) onto 1 80min CD, with amazing picture quality but with a little more of the same problem.
The problem is that I seem to get an audio stutter, which sounds a little like a morsecode beep, quite fast and loud, distorting the sound so as to make background noise/music unhearable, which comes and goes to varying degrees and may only happen once or twice in 2 hours (as per my 2hr 10min "vcd" adventure) or can be more apparent (as on my 1hr 40min "dvd" adventure) However I have noticed it to an extent in every kvcd I have played in my standalone dvd player (LG), whether made by myself or d/l from net.
I noticed last night the noise seemed to pick up more in scenes where there was bright light, more action and in particular there was a scene which had fire/flames in it which sent beeping over the top, next scene - no fire - no beeping, next scene - fire - the beeping returned? Due to this I'm not sure its anything to do with the audio coding?
I am using TMPGEnc to do the video and TooLAME via TMPGEnc for the audio. I then Simple Multiplex using TMPGEnc but have found that despite reference being made to Multiplexing an MPEG 1 Video CD (Non Standard) the files double in size and therefore cannot be burnt onto a CD, so have gone for the MPEG 1 System (Automatic) which creates a filesize similar to the video and audio added together (seems to make sense?).
I make a note here of stating that after the above process has finished there is usually a message about some bad packets and that it may not play properly. However the resuting file seems to play fine on my PC.
I burn with VCDEasy, and this gives me a message about the file needing "autopadding" (someone please explain this for me?) however while burning it says it will add this on the fly. I also notice that VCDEasy gives a warning about the audio bitrate being excessively large and it should be "?". However all the CDs I have burned have played fine except for the intermittant problem outlined?
If anyone can shed ANY light on ANY of the above I really will be very greatful.... I hope that outlining the above I have been as infomative as possible but not been too much of a bore!!
I look forward to hearing from someone..... Thankyou!!!
KickingKarlB