I love the template and the fact that you can fit a movie on one cd, but i've noticed that there is a skip in the video maybe every 5 or ten minutes.
Just kind of freezes for a milisecond or so and then go's back to normal.
I've found this on the standard setup and also with upping the min bit rate to 600. Kwag or anyone, is there a solution to this? I usually leave the motion search precision at normal. Should I try higher quality?

using,
new tmpge
memorex 80mins, burned at 32x w Nero
apex 1500AD

Try recording at 8x, that should fix it.

-Yoda

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Yoda, i've noticed a serious problem when burning at less then 32x on the memorex 40x CDR's. The only way I get quality is to burn them at full speed on my lite on 32x drive. If I burn at a slower speed I have the same issue only a lot worse. I will try a diff brand of cd's and see if that fixes the problem.

I am convinced that it's not the burning or media issue with some of these templates, it's your SA DVD player. I have an APEX 703 and I have the exact same problem. I've played with the settings several different ways...different resolution, CQ, 2Pass, demux/remux, blah, blah, blah. I just think that the GOP with that many B frames just freaks the APEX players out. I've also read a lot of people using the APEX DVD players experiencing the same thing. I think the templates are killer, but just make sure your DVD player can handle that type of encoding. I'm thinking of going to Circuit City with one of the SKVCDs that I made and see which players work. I'll report my findings. "I'm sure the sales person is going to love me......hehehehehe."

Yeah I want to replace mine, my new TV has color stream inputs but the apex doesnt have the output. I'm sure theres no difference just like the s-video cable that cost me $20. But can anyone comment on whats the best dvd player for kvcd/dvd/svcds...?

> I am convinced that it's not the burning or media issue with some of
> these templates, it's your SA DVD player.

yup,

had the same probs with the RAITE/SEG player.

What you recognize is nothing else but the player´s strategy
to keep A and V in sync. Better players do this in a way that
you´d not recognize.

I got myself a Panasonic player (RV32) after testing it with 5 different
(S)VCDs with all kind of code stress/junk on.

It does the job very well, no skips, no stuttering, no dropouts on
the same CDs that produced trouble on the other player. Even @
VBR 300 ... 2500, VBV 40 ... 120 no probs.

Take a look in the category STANDALONE PLAYERS

Obrigado

So that's incorrect! If you have that problem it's not with your dvd player.

I've "Panasonic RV-31" and I've got same problem. Very small skips every
2-3 seconds during the playback. I was using only "Tok" to produce the
mpeg. "Tok" is using default settings from BBMpeg and that was the
problem. Muxing should be as kwag posted it here:

http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12466#12466

and you are running out of problems. Use "Tok" to predict CQ only, not to
encode and mux. After that you run TMPGenc with CQ from "Tok" and
mux with the settings above. You mux the movie manualy. Takes about
1-2 min.

I think if you set those settings once in BBMpeg and after that save them
as default ones "Tok" will work correct but this is just wild guess because
I didn't try it.