Need help with playing VCD's...

[Bettista]

I surfed this site for the answer for my question but couldn't find any help so I'm hoping some of you can provide some advice. I checked to see if my DVD player could play VCD's (a Sony DVP-NS300) and it can, however when I try to play VCD's that I burned on my computer they won't play on my DVD player. I use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum to burn my VCD's and as far as I can tell they are burning correctly (no error messages and they have no problems playing on my computer). I'm not using 'reburned' CD-RW material so I know thats not the cause (I have read that that is often a problem with my DVD player). Any advice on this is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
John

[shepo]

A friend I no has the same DVD player as you, and he can only use one type of make CDR (Datesafe), so I hope you can get hold of some Datasafe disks.
Have a look at the web site for more info www.datasafe-media.com

I surfed this site for the answer for my question but couldn't find any help so I'm hoping some of you can provide some advice. I checked to see if my DVD player could play VCD's (a Sony DVP-NS300) and it can, however when I try to play VCD's that I burned on my computer they won't play on my DVD player. I use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum to burn my VCD's and as far as I can tell they are burning correctly (no error messages and they have no problems playing on my computer). I'm not using 'reburned' CD-RW material so I know thats not the cause (I have read that that is often a problem with my DVD player). Any advice on this is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
John

There tons of little reason. Some DVD players will only let you play one kind of CD. Some DVDs hate cheap CD. I can only use Memorex on mine. Sometimes it is the combo of the two. My bet is you changed sometihng. You may not even know what you did.

[Gribnitz]

I had the same problem as you. My DVD player 'says' it can play VCD, but I have yet found a disk I bought and burned that could play on it. It plays store bought VCD's fine, but if I burn my own it either plays a skippy, nasty mess and freezes, or it says I don't have a disk in.

I ended up buying an APEX 5131 based on the reviews I read on this site and that player rocks! It has played everything I have thrown at it, even the cheapy 10 - 15 cent CDR's from Best Buy! A very nice player with a 3 disk carousel and cheap to boot.

Your best bet is to read the reviews of the DVD players on this board, then pick the one with the highest user rating that you can afford.

[rhaine]

Lots of people trash this DVD player but VCD's will play and they are not bad. Has to do with how you make them. Book with unit says "NO" CDR, only CD-RW. Also, will not play SVCD but you can get around that. Plenty help on this site. I burned Verbatim and FujiFilm CD-RW's without any problems.