I can't get my burned VCDs to work on my DVD player -- HELP!

[MadCat2k1]

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I recently got into burning some VCDs and I use a TDK 650 meg CD-R.

Anyway here's my problem -

First of all I get the movie (50 mins) and put it through TMPGEnc and encode it to MPEG1 using PAL, 25 FPS, CBR 1150, 352x288 and when that was done (Took an hour wtf lol) I used VCDEasy and converted it to .bin/cue and did everything the guide says here on vcdhelp for converting to VCD.

Well, it tells me to burn within VCDEasy which I can't because CDdao (or whatever it's called) doesn't detect my cd writer. So after that I decide to manually extract the contents of the .bin into a folder and burn to cd (Dammit WinXP only lets me use the built in one) and I have to use the WinXP one. Well, I thought that would work but it hasn't and I've tried quite a few things but my stand alone dvd player just spins the cd and/or says "Video CD 1.1" on it but will sorta just display "Loading" when I try to hit play forever until I take out the CD. It seems it's detected stuff on the CD-R and thinks it may be a 1.1 video cd but it aint doing jack shit. I'm using a Thomson DTH-5000 DVD-Player and yeah it's got dual laser pickup so I would expect the thing to detect the cds anyway. So far I only tried TDK and Memorex but niether seems to work. Sometimes it can't even read the cd at all or just displays the Video CD 1.1 message and doesn't do jack after that.

Have I burned it wrong? or did I encode it wrong?

Can someone please shed some light this is getting to annoy me alot now.

[bugster]

Not 100% sure how you are actually burning, but whatever tool you use it MUST support VCD format explicitly. Generally recomended is Nero, and thats what I use. Select the VCD format, give it a VCD compliant mpeg and let it burn.

[MadCat2k1]

30 minutes after posting this I was so happy. I managed to get VCDEasy going and in 5 minutes of burning I put my last CD-R in my DVD Player and it works, perfectly....The menu too which I made!

I am really happy because my stupidity worked out after using 14 cds and at my last one I got it working.

Just posting this topic got me thinking. THanks for the help though, and if I didn't figure it out I would of done from your reply.

Time to order 50 cd-r now and start copying.