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Centropy and standalones..any solution ?

Hi
I have 2 standalones
An old wharfdale 750s and a Yello dvd800
When the Wharfy play CTP releases it will skip and jump throughout the movie and the Yello system loses sound sync.
Anyone know why this only happens with Centropy releases (I know Im not the only 1 with this issue) ?
They are obviously using something different to encode to VCD standard, Ive tried re-encoding but didnt seem to make much difference, Im gonna try converting to divx then back to see if that helps.
Any pointers would be appreciated
TIA !!

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Centropy releases main flaw is that they're designed as xvcd, not the standard PAL/NTSC formats and a lot of players have a problem playing them... If you were to watch it on your computer you would experience Centropy's quality without the sync`ing issues, and the skipping.

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yep thats correct, on the PC its fine. On some standalones its fine also.
I know they encode to PAL also, but didnt know they used XVCD.
thnx

I´ve watched Centropy releases with my LG-3351E Standalone and they seemed to work fine. So I believe that LG is one Standalone which is able to play em...

Centropy releases play fine on my standalone, my suggestion would be to get a decent player.

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Originally posted by K-FurY
Centropy releases play fine on my standalone, my suggestion would be to get a decent player.

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"Where can I download TheChosenFew version of 8 mile? I dont use irc, its too complicated, i need simplicity" - XeroFightsAlone

Well I have a Hitachi DV-P415U, it can play everything from vcd to svcd to xvcd. It can ffw and rrw up to 128x and it has alot of other cool shit like an MP3 decoder. My only complaint is that some cdrw play a bit choppy but cdr's play beautifully. it cost me around 300 canadian.

Only tried one Centropy release (Spiderman), which worked fine on our Apex 1500. Also a friend watched it on his - hafta get his model for ya...

APEX seem to be able to play Centropy releases fine. My 500 never seems to have problems and my friends 1500 doesn't either. And on VCDHelp the Apex AD-1500 has very good ratings and can play virtually everything. So if your looking for a new player I'd say try APEX.

MystLurker

My recommendation to play ctp's Pal encodes is to buy a Apex..Can get it at any local Future Shop or watever.. About 150$..well worth it . Can play NTsc, Pals, SVcd's, anything...Plus its cheap...Look into the dvd player before you spend your money on it...

-CoWsRuLe

try burning at 4 speed or less, i know that is a pain but i have heard others say this corrected some of the problems they had turn it down to 2x and see if the same problem exist, i can not promise anything because i never had the problem but others have told me that solved it for them.

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i never had a problem with ctp on my standalone i have philips dvd704 and its beautiful

and im a maniac about shitty encodes and they are nice on my player

i wish though there was a hack for the dvd704 cant find it anywhere

never have any probs with CTP rels on my Dansai 852.
they all play perfectly........

apex's have problems with ctp's xvcds. spiderman was a svcd, thus no sync problems.

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I guess your pimp gave you a little cash to get a cheap dvd player
huh punk!ahahahha

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My Apex AD-500 has never had any problems with any centropy releases. Don't know what urs is doing, but I've never heard of Apex problems with centropy.

MystLurker

I know some of the cheapo players do well at handling various formats, but to be honest its better to pay some extra for a Pioneer, My Pioneer DV444 has never tripped up yet on any mpeg i have burned as vcd/svcd/x(s)vcd also it has beautiful picture quality. And i doubt the buttons will fall off after a year. I have heard Yamaha are also very good players.

Just bought Apex AD-5131..It was 99 clams and holds 3 cds which comes in handy for SVCD's..Played everything I threw at it, including all CTP releases

I am using an APEX-1100W it works the best . can play everything from DVD to SVCD and more. plays NTSC and PAL fine. no complaints. got my dvd player for 65.00 cuz i price matched .

like i said before, it's the pal xvcds, not the svcds they've been recently releasing.

Centropy Playback

I use a Yelo 800 and have no problem playing back CTY stuff.

Suggest you load at your media. I used to experience probs when using crappy CDR's. Use a good quality one.

Simply put, if Centropy wasnt who they are they would be nuked everywhere. They have poor aspect ratio.

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I use Fireburner and usually burn at 8 or below , all my friends have bought the cheapo apex dvd players , i use a pioneer DV-343 I have burnt alot of movies with fireburner and have never had a problem, I even took a xxx mpeg i download and used nero and turned into a vcd that played great! Im a newbie ! Couldnt belive it was so simple ,I love this hobby