After reading the info on here it seems that the philips 711 player is the one to go for.
Ie vcd,dvd & svcd, does it also play mp3 also? Any other coments on this player?
Many thanks
Mick
Only to say that the Pioneer 535 looks good as well. I'm on the same quest!
There's a list of players and their capabilities, as well as owners comments on this site; http://www.vcdhelp.com./
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Kind Regards
Clive
[This message has been edited by clive (edited 07 February 2001).]
I own a DVD711. It doesn't play MP3 (as far as the manual is concerned). It won't play higher-than-standard bitrate VCD, and you have to keep SVCD total bitrate below 2600 kbps to avoid stutters and freezes.
Otherwise I think it's a great player (picture quality running RGB into 32" WS TV looks great), and seems to play any kind of SVCD I managed to make so far.
There is also a good multiregion hack available (http://www.home.zonnet.nl/jeroenverhaar/en/index.htm).
Tony
owlsroost
what the length of your svcd disc
Brian
So far, I've only made test discs up to about 20 mins total, no track longer than about 5 minutes.
Have you found a problem with long discs/tracks?
Tony
I too have the DVD711 and am more than happy with it. I have only played VCD's so far as I haven't created an SVCD yet and I can confirm that it DOESN'T play MP3 cd's. For an exiting couple of seconds I thought it would as the counter started to count, but, alas, no sound. CD-R and CD-RW compatability is mentioned in the instructionleaflet, by the way.
I also find it sonically better than the Sony CD player I was using before. Picture quality on a big Sony Vega is fab too. Not only that but I think it's a classy looking player, and has a rather pleasant blue background screen when it's playing CD's that displays track number etc. I've also bought an AllForOne6 remote and made it multi-region using stuff easily found on the web.
Tony(owlsroost)
Have made a svcd about 24 mins long excellent quality almost dvd but 24 mins is all i can get on the settings i use. have tried reducing the kbps but then the quality suffers. just wondered if or what settings you use
Brian
I use TMPGEnc 12a, 2400kbps video (480 x 576, CBR, interlaced, motion search set to high or highest quality), 192kbps audio @ 44.1 kHz.
I usually put 16 pixel black borders around the picture (since TV's are overscanned, you don't see those parts anyway, and it means more data bits are available to encode the parts you can see).
Have a look at 'http://www.geocities.com/aussie01au/' for SVCD tips.
Tony