VCD Menus not working on my player

[glitch13]

I have a RCA RC5240P and it plays VCDs fine, but i can't seem to get the menus to show up.

I'll burn a VCD with into and menu and it plays fine in my friend's panasonic (shows intro, then displays menu, etc) but in mine it loads up then just sits at the blue screen like it would with a VCD without a menu. It says "PCB" and "VCD 2.0" on the screen. I burned 3 clips plus an intro and a menu, when i play it, the intro is no where to be found and it says it has 4 tracks (1st one being the clip that was supposed to be the menu, then the 3 real tracks). The manual says it supports VCD menus, so I really don't know what is going on.

Anyone have any ideas?

PS. what is PCB?

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: glitch13 on 2001-09-05 18:36:28 ]</font>

[wildcatfan]

pbc is Playback Control...that is what makes the menus possible....as to why yours isn't working that is a good question. What did you author it with? Sounds like your player recognizes the disc fine but doesn't like something about the structure.

Michael

[wildcatfan]

OH now I see the problem.....vcd's in many players don't autorun like dvd's do. You still have to hit play...then the menu will pop up....

Michael

[glitch13]

I've tried it. Sorry i was a little scant on details, let me reiterate:

the way i burned it (with EZ CDCreator's vcd burner and following the menu tutorial for it on this site):
==========
intro
menu (menu is a 3 second loop)
1 track
2 track
3 track

how my player sees it:
==========
intro is no where to be found
1 track (supposed to be 3 second menu loop!!!)
2 track (supposed to be track 1)
3 track (supposed to be track 2)
4 track (supposed to be track 3)

and like i said, plays fine on my friend's panasonic (ie the way i burned it), and my player's manual says it supports menus. Just wondering if theres something I'm missing.

[intercalated]

I also have the same RCA player you do and have not been successful creating a menued vcd that was playable on either of my DVD players (aiwa xd-dv370 and RCA rc5240p). I got it to play the intro and then it froze.

I think that EZCD 5 platinum need to fix their software.

[Bezier]

I have exactly the same problem you have in my Pioneer 626. The text on the screen are the same and menus or stills don't work.

[ViperXT]

Try using the guide and menu buttons. Also the player can generate its own menus which is very useful.

[ya_jai]

Try to author all those VCDs with TSCV (VCDimager's GUI) and burn with CDRwin. For Menu you need to do some work with "XML" code but with TSCV it should be easy to figure it out.

[lusid]

This is definately a problem with EZ CD Creator version 5.

It's not creating the PBC code correctly.

I have testing it's disc on a Phillips DVD825, A Panasonic CV36, and a Pioneer 414. Only the Phillips plays them correctly.

VCDs authored with version 4 work correctly in all these players. Somebody screwed something up during the 5.x development cycle =(

Anyway, if you do as others have suggested and use VCDImager and TSCV your disc should play correctly.