[TriLUG] Burning SVCD's in Linux

[John Walker]

I picked up a Philips DVD726 and I am very impressed.  I have heard a
lot about the chroma bug before, but either I can't see it or it doesn't
bother me.  The Philips has been great so far.  It has played everything
I have thrown at it.  It will even play unauthored mpg files that are
just written to a CD. Both of you were right though. My other one would
only play VCD, not SVCD.


On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 17:35, al johson wrote:
> I'd like to second Tanner's suggestion. Actually there is another DVD format
> which you might have luck with as well, "XVCD". I've discovered that VCD and
> XVCD work great in my DVD player (a fairly new Panasonic progressive scan
> model), but even this model doesn't do SVCD. Apparently there is very little
> difference between SVCD and XVCD, if you believe the information available
> online.
> 
> And while we're on the subject of DVD players, you should be aware of a
> nasty software bug that afflicts many DVD players called the "chroma bug".
> It produces an effect onscreen which you wouldn't notice until someone
> pointed it out to you (basically on large areas with a solid color such as
> red it introduces noise in the color which makes it look as if there are
> streaks of black or other colors present in an area which should be a solid
> color). I read about this in a recent issue of DVD magazine. The only
> "reasonably priced" models  that I'm aware of are Panasonic, apparently
> Panasonic bought all their chroma chips from a source which doesn't have the
> bug, so according to DVD magazine, NONE of the Panasonic players are
> affected by this problem. There are also some very expensive high end DVD's
> ($400 or more) which don't have the "chroma bug", and there might be some
> other manufacturers who have fixed it, or maybe you wouldn't notice "this
> bug anyway", but if you're thinking about buying a new DVD player, you may
> want to avoid the "chroma bug" and pick out one of the Panasonic models.--Al
> Johnson.
> --------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tanner Lovelace" <lovelace at wayfarer.org>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 11:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Burning SVCD's in Linux
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 25 May 2003, John Walker wrote:
> >
> > > My friends and I are creating some home movies of our fishing trips. The
> > > guy with the digital video camera is capturing the video in mpeg2
> > > format.
> > >
> > > I am using Mandrake Linux 9.1 and K3b to do the SVCD creation and cd
> > > writing.  It works fine as long as I play them on the computer, but they
> > > will not play in my standalone DVD player. My DVD player can play the
> > > ones I created in Windows before I switched to Linux.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?  Is K3b writing in a format native to Linux that
> > > can't be read by other players?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
> >
> > Are you sure your windows program was creating *S* VCDs?  Many
> > DVD players cannot read SVCDs (mine can't) but can read VCDs
> > fine.
> >
> > I'd check that first.
> >
> > Tanner
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