Copied VCD Gets Stuck.

[MarcosF]

I have Windows 2000, I copied a VCD with Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum onto a 700mb CDR. The original VCD worked fine with both Windows Media Player 7 and PowerDVD. When I put the copied VCD into my DVD-ROM it plays it up only to a certain part and then gives me an error in PowerDVD. When I try to play it with Windows Media Player 7, it never even starts playing, and just continues to try read the copied VCD. If I put the copied VCD into my CDRW then it will play the VCD up to the same part as the with the DVD-ROM and then gets stuck, but slowly it goes for about a minute (playing for about half a second then getting stuck again), and then resumes playing normal after that in PowerDVD. If I try Windows Media Player with it, it just does the same thing as my DVD-ROM did. Any suggestions as to what my problem is?

[d4n13l]

Try using a dedicated CD cloning utility like CloneCD or Blind Read/Write. Make sure you clean the surface of the VCD before you copy it.
If you dont already, copy the disk to your HD before you burn. Do not do disk to disk copies (Where the DVD-ROM drive reads the VCD while the CDRW writes a copy).
It could also be the media you use or there is a very small possibility that it is the burn speed. If you have an old burner that can only do 4x maximum, try burning at 1x - There is only a very slight chance that it may be this.
If all else fails, try to rip the VCD and recreate your own (Just like when you rip an audio CD to WAV and use the WAVs to create another CD)

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: d4n13l on 2001-12-16 06:07:40 ]</font>