Not sure if this is an authoring or encoding question - Nero

[dmlove]

I've seen various posts regarding the Nero SVCD-MPEG-2 plugin. I have Nero 5.5 that came with my burner. Made VCDs successfully. Converted an avi file to MPEG2 the other day using TmpGenc, and burned it using Nero (after pressing "SVCD". I never downloaded any plugin, so what did I actually get (the quality was pretty bad when played back using PowerDVD). Maybe what I created wasn't SVCD after all?

[zlighter]

Not sure what you got ... But you don't need the SVCD encoder plugin to make an SVCD. If you make an MPEGII stream with TMPGenc then that'll do BUT make sure your Video Kbits are at least 1750 and no more than 3000 at 29.97 FPS and audio is 224Kbits at 44.1 Khz just to make sure you are compliant.

Given that, It should work. Maybe your stream rate was too high and you accidentally made an XSVCD that your player can't handle.

By the way, don't buy the NERO encoder. On some boxes it makes a weird pulsing in the video as it is encoding resulting in a progessively worse stream that gets a blocky and I have not found a way to change the Kbits etc...

TMPGenc is the best way to go for converting AVI/DiVX for VCD/SVCD/XVCD/XSVCD. And DVDx is GREAT for converting those pesky DVDs to the above formats.

[dmlove]

So the plug-in is just the encoder, for which I'm using TMPGenc anyway. I got it. Thanks.

[johnbmx4christ]

you can also use the templates that came with tmpg for standard vcd and svcd.

[mojo]

I have been having problems with Nero myself and noticed that my Video Kbits settings for a Pal VCD are different than those above 29.97 FPS are those settings for NTSC as my Frame rate is 25fps and the Video Kbits are 1150, audio is 224Kbits at 44.1 Khz
it is mentioned they should be at least 1750 and no more than 3000 as my Hard drive copy is great but the burned copy stutters
any idea's

[johnbmx4christ]

have you also tried the templates that came with tmpg for pal? its alot easier than making the settings yourself.

[mojo]

Yes i used the templates that came with TMPGE (version 2.02 ) for VideoCD (Pal).mcf maybe i should try another version ?