tried to make VCD

[Hippo]

I got this film I tried to make a VCD of it. It was .mpg file and after I burned it on CD it was .dat. I used EZ cd creator Platinum an I had the wizard to help me.
It burned fine but I cannot play it on my stationary DVD-player, and it is fine on computer.
I know the file should be .mpg to play on dvd players. But why did it covert it into .dat?

[USiT]

Therres nothing wrong with the file the file should be .dat file, but are u sure that your DVDplayer can play (S)VCDmovies?

Check this link to se if your DVDplayer supports (S)VCD:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php

[Hippo]

Well it says it should be able to play svcd. And the player recognices the disc but I can't press play it only says stop.
The dvd player takes every disc format but photo-disc. And I don't know DVD-r.

[agzz]

I dont really know whats up here but..
Did you make a VCD image of a mpeg2 SVCD file? SVCD should be mpg on disc, VCD is dat. i think that might be the prob.

[teddymines]

Sometimes the media type can make the difference. Try copying an audio cd onto the same medium, then play it on your dvd player. If it doesn't play, then you need to try some other media brand. If it does play, then I'd lean toward your burner program making invalid vcd's.

My sony dvp-s360 works with only a few cdr brands. I have to use prime peripherals media.

[Hippo]

The file is .mpg on hard drive and .dat cd. it works fine in my comp. but in my dvd-player it saya on the display VCD but it doesn´t play it.
I have used these disks to make vcd before but with Easy CD creator 4 deluxe instead of Easy CD creator 5 platinum.
The later version should not be any badder to make vcd with.
Should I try burn it again or is just a waste of disks?
Could it be just the disk that it is corrupt some how? it is fine in comp.

[teddymines]

Since your dvd player recognizes it as a VCD, I would say that the media and directory structures are fine. The problem is probably some mpeg formatting problem when it got encoded. Some players can read VCD and not Super-VCD or XVCD. Maybe you burned it with one of these formats?

Another possibility may be the source files not being encoded properly. Of course you can play them on your PC, but they might not fit the exact VCD standard. Some burning sw will warn you that the mpeg file is vcd incompatible and suggest options, others night not.

Try using TMPGEnc to encode it into VCD format (load the VCD template), then tell your burn sw to make a VCD and give it the mpegs. You could also try nero to burn.

[Hippo]

When I make the layout it goes fine till the end. When I try to start recording it, it tells me that"One or more files have been modified since creating this project. Its racommended to stop recoding and run Validate project from the application."

And the helpfile for this window says"
Some source files are missing or have changed since your CD project was created. Before recording the CD, do the following:
1. Click Stop to cancel the CD recording process.
2. From the File menu, select Validate CD Project to see which files have changed.
3. Change or update your CD project accordingly.
4. Click Record to try the recording process again.
Note: If you click Continue from this dialog box, your CD project is temporarily modified to exclude any missing or changed files.

And I don´t know where to make these changes. When I stop recording and run Validate the same thing happens again.
Can I just copy tyhe katalogs from a working vcd-disc and put in the .mpg file in proper place?