[vdr] Re: Small problem with tosvcd-0.3

[Cornelius Hald <hald@gmx.de>]

On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 14:27, Thomas Heiligenmann wrote:
> Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 09:38, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 09:23, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > yesterday I tried the to convert an old recording (Dumm und Dümmer) to
> > > > SVCD using tosvcd-0.3. The goal was having 2 SVCDs with max. 700MB, but
> > > > I got one with 715MB and one with 248MB. Is it possible (with the files
> > > > shown below) to process film.mpa and film.mpv to get film-1.mpg and
> > > > film-2.mpg with sizes not bigger then 700MB? Or do I have to restart the
> > > > whole process with "tosvcd -s 650 ..."?
> > >
> > > Sorry for this. It was my fault, my disk ran full.
> > 
> > Ok, now I´ve created a working SVCD. If I play the disk with the
> > VCD-Patch for VDR, it runs fine until I press Pause/Play or if I jump
> > forwards or backwards, than the picture freezes but audio is running.
> > Is this a problem of tosvcd-0.3 or does it come from the VCD-Patch?
> > Or am I doing s.th. wrong here?
> > 
> 
> 
> A problem of both I guess ;-)

Hmm, I expeced s.th. like that :-)

> Jumping forward and backward in the VCD patch at the moment is just
> based on the timestamps of CD sectors without looking into the MPEG
> data, so there's no alignment. It works on some (S)VCDs however, this
> may depend on the muxing, MPEG sources etc.etc.
> 
> I'm working on improving the replay in the VCD patch.

That´s fine cause it´s a really great extension!

> You may try another way of creating (S)VCDs as described in Peter
> Hofmann's HOWTOs to achieve different - and maybe more successful -
> results.

I will try. And I have noticed that I do have a SVCD from a friend witch
plays fine under VDR. Maybe I can find the differences.

Thanks for your answer!
Conny