Too Good To Be True

[Questor569]

I just got my Sharp VL-WD255U DV Camcorder in, charged the battery and recorded 2min.45sec. of video. Hooked it up to my Actiontec 1394 firewire cable and captured it with VideoWave 4.0 on first try. Then I hit the Produce Video button and chose the "Mpeg 1" in the left column and scrolled through the right hand column and chose "Video CD". It took a DV file that was 569MB and made it a 28MB Mpeg 1, 352X240, 29.97fps, 44100hz stereo 16bit Audio, with 24bit per pixel color depth. I copied it on a Sony 8X4X32 CD-RW CRX140E/CH writer to a Rewritable "silver" cd using CD Extreme software. The whole process took about half an hour, not bad I thought for my first time out. Popped it in my Hitachi DVD-Rom GD-7500 player on my pc but nothing happened! I opened up My Computer and it showed a VCD in the DVD-Rom. I tried to open the DVD-Rom from My Computer but it wouldn't run. I open the VCD and there was two folders in it. One was "MPEGAV" with a file in it called "AVSEQ01" it is 28MB. The other folder was "VCD" with two files in it, first was "ENTRIES.VCD", second was "INFO.VCD". Can anyone tell me if the files and folders are what they should be cause this is all new to me. I'm wondering if it is just my DVD-Rom that doesn't read VCD's. I have another pc that has a Atapi 12X DVD-Rom and it doesn't even see the VCD. The Sony CD Writer that wrote the Vcd see's it but won't play it. Also my other pc has a Philips CDD4801 CD-R/RW that sees the VCD but won't play it either. Windows Media Player will play the Mpeg 1 VCD file and it looks OK to me in there. I really thought I was on a roll but I'm at a Screaching Halt for now. Any suggestions?
Here's a note that I forgot say, those files and folders all have that stupid little Windows ME symble that if you double click on brings up the "Open With" box.

I have SCSI1HLP.VXD in my Windows/system/iosubsys

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Questor569 on 2001-10-05 21:02:30 ]</font>

[pacmania_2001]

I believe this is because of the burning software you used. Download a trial version of Nero, if you dont already have it and then use it to burn the .mpeg file. I have heard other people having this problem when using that burning software.

[Questor569]

That previous post was just about a novel, here is were I stand now. The VCD I made works in the Hitachi DVD-Rom with fair quality. I had to open the WinDVD program, duh! It won't work in the Sony CD Writer though even if I set the properties of the WinDVD player to that drive. I went and tried the VCD on the other pc I have, the Atapi 12X DVD-Rom just won't play the VCD either with WinDVD player but the Philips CD Writer will if I set the properties of WinDVD to that drive. The picture is poor quality freezes or choppy. That pc has the SCSI1HLP.VXD drivers in the win/sys./iosubsys also. Could this have anything to do with the actual cd media quality that it isn't being played in all of the drives, one dvd and one cd writer? The brand is "DigitalMedia" rewritable 74min.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Questor569 on 2001-10-05 22:01:21 ]</font>