DVD player has trouble reading VRB MP3

[Jungle Jim]

My DVD player plays most MP3 perfectly, but it seems to have trouble reading VBR MP3s with "low estimated bitrate". My MP3s are encoded with Lame at 192 VBR.

The MP3s that can't play on my DVD seem to be those that have a very low estimated bitrate (the ones that computer software estimates very wrong, like 34VBR and 12:38 min for a 2:14 song recorded at 192VBR).

The same disc plays just fine on my portable MP3 player, just not on my DVD player (and most MP3s play fine on the DVD).

Does anybody knows why this might be and if this happens with all DVD players or how to make it all work fine???

Thanks!

 

[scarecrow]

The wrong calculation time is a known Windows bug- the solution would be very simple- reading the internal MP3 headers, but Microsoft doesn't seem to care fixing it.
First check if your ID3 tags are OK, and then see if your standalone DVD has trouble with files having both ID3 v.1 and ID3 v.2 tags. Most chips that can decode MP3 don't have such trouble.

 

[Jungle Jim]

The wrong calculation time is a known Windows bug- the solution would be very simple- reading the internal MP3 headers, but Microsoft doesn't seem to care fixing it.
First check if your ID3 tags are OK, and then see if your standalone DVD has trouble with files having both ID3 v.1 and ID3 v.2 tags. Most chips that can decode MP3 don't have such trouble.

Thanks for the answer!

- I don't know what you mean by "checking if my id3 tags are ok"...
- My DVD player has the same problem with files that have both v.1 and v.2 tags and those with only v.1 tags.
- My DVD player doesn't seem to read tags at all; it simply lists filenames. However, my portable MP3 player, on wich all files play correctly, does read v.1 tags.

Could the problem be that the DVD player doesn't read tags? How come then it can play most MP3s (including most of the VBR ones - except the ones with low estimated VBR?).

Thanks again for any clarifications

Alex