Problems watching VCD's I made.

[hamiltonfighter]

Okay, here is my situation. I am wanting to watch movies at work on VCD's, and I have done it before several months ago. But the movies that I copied recently aren't working. I used EasyVCD to rip the movie. Then I used Sony CD Extreme burning program to make the VCD's. When at work I used a few programs to try and open the dat files with no success. I tried using Divx player, Windows Media Player 9, and Medfia Player Classic. Also, the movies worked at home on my dvd player.

Thanks in advance

[jdizzy40]

Maybe your employer has figured out that you are wasting his time on the job and has installed a neat little monitoring tool to prevent you from watching your VCD's? Or something has changed on your home computer? Do the VCD's play okay on your Home Computer?

[deckard8]

Try burning your Vcd's with VCDEasy (the last free version will do).

If you Vcd's were playing successfully at work before, what has changed in your creation process? Are you using different/worse cdrs?, burning at a higher speed?, using different authoring/burning tools? codecs removed from works computer? Any of these could be the cause.

[mats.hogberg]

If you're going to open the .dat file, why go thru the hazzle of authoring as VCD at all? VCD are meant to be played "as a disc" - just like a video DVD, on a computer using the same software, like PowerDVD or WinDVD. If you just want computer playback, leave it as mpg (or even better, encode to DivX/XviD) and burn it as data.

/Mats

[hamiltonfighter]

Thanks for the help.

I'll try to encode it to DivX/XviD. Is there a program you would suggest?

[hamiltonfighter]

Maybe your employer has figured out that you are wasting his time on the job and has installed a neat little monitoring tool to prevent you from watching your VCD's?

Negative to that.

I work security and we are allowed computer and internet access. We are not allowed portable dvd players though, because we might offend somebody with the movie we are watching. One of their main concerns is that we stay awake and alert and having something to help us is okay with them.

[mats.hogberg]

I'll try to encode it to DivX/XviD. Is there a program you would suggest?

What is your source? If DVD, there are plenty of guides to be found under Convert left.

/Mats