svcd authoring

[umair]

after i author the svcd and burn it do i need to do anything to my dvd player to make it play or will it automatically play like when i put in a dvd

[Gazorgan]

If your player supports SVCD, then it should play.

[umair]

how do i find out if it supports SVCD? also do i have to burn it on a cd-r or can i burn it on a cd-rw?

[mh2360]

Go here:

https://www.videohelp.com/svcd

and download one of the sample images. Burn to a CD-R and /or CD-RW and test for yourself.

[Colindale]

how do i find out if it supports SVCD?

TRY IT!

[Ejoc]

how do i find out if it supports SVCD?

Look to the left of your screen, click on ..... DVD Players Compatiblity & user comments. Then enter in your DVD player

[umair]

thanks mh2360 & Ejoc

[umair]

well mine is a Toshiba SD3109 so i guess its not compatible

[gmatov]

Umair,

Try a disk in it before you give up. Also, see if there is an update that will work for your machine.

The reports to the left are not gospel. All the reports on the Samsung 205 say it will play " everything ", and I have not made a single disk, no matter the format, VCD, XVCD, SVCD, XSVCD, nor CVD that will play on it.

Stick one in and try, then, if it doesn't work, try a different format. You have only some time and a few bucks of CD-Rs to waste. And look at the experience you will be getting.

[umair]

i tried it and it doesn't work. do you mean an update for my dvd player? how can i do that?

[fartt]

have u tried playin a VCD?
if that works, try that VCD HEADER TRICK thing so u
can play SVCDs (tho i believe thats a non-standard method)

well good luck

;:;:;
http://www.vcdeasy.org/modules.php?name=_Guides&id=VcdTrick

[umair]

i don't think that would help. my dvd player doesn't play cdrs

[gmatov]

If it doesn't play CD-Rs then what is the point of this thread?

Everyone is trying to get a CD-R to play on your machine.

If you just say that CD-Rs don't play, why continue?

Listen to your respondents and take heed. Something may work.

Get another player if all else fails. They go for less than 50 bucks for compatible players.

[umair]

i didn't know that it doesn't play cdrs until Ejoc posted about the dvd player compatibility. thats when i found out it doesn't play cdrs. thats why i posted saying its not compatibile. then gmatov said something about updating my dvd player. i just wanted to know what he was talking about

[gmatov]

Well, you have to search to see if there is a " software hack ", so called, a firmware update, to allow it to read a VCD or SVCD.

Some machine makers refused to pay the Philips royalty and made their machines non-compliant with the VCD , or not play the VCD, but, again, on some machines, you could do an update to allow it.

Whether yours will accept an update, I don't know. Do a search.

The other, simpler thing, is to go buy a Norcent or Apex. They play damn near everything, and cost leess than 50 bucks. This is the one place you DO NOT get what you pay for, more money = better device.

Personally, my Apex, which took anything, died after 6 months, and since it would have cost more to fix, aftert the 90 day warranty, I bought a Philips, reasoning that since they owned the patent on VCD, it had to play them.

87 bucks, WalMart, and it looks a hell of a lot better than the Apex.