Burning VCD with Nero 5559 on XP won't play on my VCD why?

[hardbody6pack]

I finally got the new version which works with my drive. I burned a few VCD and none of them seem to work on my DVD player. This is a 2.0 P4 Xp. Nero worked fine when I used it on my other computer with windows 98 with a different kind of drive.

Is the problem the drive that's writing the VCDs or the operating system? (or is the Software?)

[mats.hogberg]

I have the same situation. However, using a sweet (and freeware!) app called vcdeasy, it's a breeze to make VCD's!
BTW, I've got a Centrum Libra standalone DVD (=SEG Hollwood et al)
Generally speaking, burning CD's under XP is a pain if you want to go beyond what's built into the burning capabilities of XP itself. (IMHO) A shame, as XP (or rather W2k) is the by far the best OS to leave the MS labs yet.
I'm at the point of setting up a Linux system for my CD creation needs! (or "downgrade" to W2k again )

[hardbody6pack]

VCDeasy has some problems with CDRDAO or something like that...so I have to force the driver.

I'm using the same type of CDS, same videos same everything and it won't play...with Nero VCD burning. It makes all the right folders and plays fine on the PC but no go on the DVD player which was working fine with the windows 98.

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, cdrdao and XP "out of the box" makes vcdeasy complain about the ASPI layer, but works anyway if you "force" the use of cdrdao.
Also, Adaptec has released a new version of XP compatible ASPI layer, made publicly available (well, you have to tell them you have an Adaptec SCSI adapter...), and after installing that, vcdeasy no longer complains about the ASPI layer.

[hardbody6pack]

well I d/l them from adaptec and ran the aspi check program and everything is installed, only thing is that my drive does not come up at all. it says "No CD writer/reader found or aspi driver poblem found". What can I do now?

[Akai Rounin]

it says "No CD writer/reader found or aspi driver poblem found".

Sorry... What is "it"...? The ASPI driver installation program? WindowsXP Device Manager? Nero? VCDEasy?

Someone mentioned a problem that may happen when attempting to burn a VCD from Nero. The files in the MPEGAV folder of your VCDs may be named improperly. Check and you may see that your older discs burned on a different PC have files in the MPEGAV folder named AVSEQ01.DAT, AVSEQ02.DAT, AVSEQ03.DAT...etc. The newer discs from Nero might be named Janice_In_Bed.DAT, Frank_With_Dog.DAT, Superman_The_Movie_Part-1.DAT...etc. Basically, the file names burned with Nero may be the same as the original MPG file, so the DVD player will not recognize them as something it should play in VCD format.

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin

[hardbody6pack]

"it" = VCDeasy

I checked the file structure and they are named exactly the same. Now what?

[Akai Rounin]

Are you certain? What about the other directories, CDDA, EXT, SEGMENT & VCD? Are those folders & files the same?

Did you restart the system after loading the new ASPI layer drivers? Did you activate the CDRDAO section of VCDEasy? Have you tried to Force the driver? Did you try selecting the generic-mmc or generic-mmc-raw driver, rather than Default?

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin

[hardbody6pack]

all the directories, folders and file names are the same.

Yes, I did restart after I installed the new aspi. I activated the CDRDAO part, but the part where my drive is supposed to be is not selectable, in the bottom says no drive found. I don't know how to force aspi. I clickedon start>run> typed force/aspi , or force, or forceaspi and it doesn't work. Am I doing it right? I'll try the generic mmc and see what happens.

[hardbody6pack]

I finally got it to recognize the drive, wher ethe drive name shows up now. When it's going through the process it's fine but when it gets to the writing part it stops and give me the error Driver not found for "Samsung cdr/dvd SM 332B. I used generic mmc and it finally started burning now. I just have to check now to see if it'll play? be right back

[clanger]

Do you still have burning turned on in XP itself (ie the built in software) ?
I had problems when I upgraded and found that turning the built in burning off seemed to solve the problem.

you do it buy right clicking on the drive icon in my computer, then find the part which says enable burning on this device - unselect it to turn it off

sorry it's a bit vague - i'm at work, and trying to remember what I did...

[mats.hogberg]

Driver not found for "Samsung cdr/dvd SM 332B.
I'm going to try one more thing, let me know what youthink I should do now.

Could be as bad as that cdrdao does not support your Samsung CD writer, but I hold that for rather unlikely.
Other Samsung burners can be used using generic-mmc or generic-mmc-raw driver (as suggested before). I don't remember if Vcdeasy lets you specify what cdrdao driver to use. If not, check the cdrdao home page for how to force the use of a specific driver.

Who said CD writing was easy?

[Akai Rounin]

Yeah, I forgot to mention... Once you have set CDRDAO to ON within VCDEasy, and chosen which drives are for reading/writing, you have to EXIT the program and restart VCDEasy before you can burn anything. Also, I have no clue where the option to turn CDRDAO first appears - it's a checkbox or something. Now that VCDEasy is working on my machine, I can't find the option anywhere. I thought it was on the opening page of VCDEasy, maybe I was wrong.

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin

[hardbody6pack]

Alright, this is the latest now. I tried generic mmc and generic mmc-raw thsi is what happened:

generic mmc : in windows would not show any of the content
in DVD: DID NOT PLAY!

generic mmc raw" om windows is was missing the cdi folder (there was only 4 folders instead of the regular 5)
in DVD: DID NOT PLAY (AGAIN!)

NOW WHAT!

[mats.hogberg]

Alright, this is the latest now. I tried generic mmc and generic mmc-raw thsi is what happened:

generic mmc : in windows would not show any of the content
in DVD: DID NOT PLAY!

generic mmc raw" om windows is was missing the cdi folder (there was only 4 folders instead of the regular 5)
in DVD: DID NOT PLAY (AGAIN!)

Well, at least we've determined that generic-mmc-raw was the right cdrdao driver to use.
Cdrdao isn't responsible for what gets written, it just takes what's in the bin/cue sheet and (tries) to write to the CD-R, so the missing cdi folder is not cdrdao's fault.

As to why it wont play in your DVD - ???
Have you ever succeeded in playing a VCD on your DVD player?

I think there's a sample VCD bin/cue here at vcdhelp that you can try writing using the cdrdao tool from vcdeasy.

[CryptKeeper]

Also, I have no clue where the option to turn CDRDAO first appears - it's a checkbox or something. Now that VCDEasy is working on my machine, I can't find the option anywhere. I thought it was on the opening page of VCDEasy, maybe I was wrong.

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin

it's in the Settings Section - VCDEasy

External Aplications Location
checkbox there - Enable CDRDAO Integration

[hardbody6pack]

[/quote]
Well, at least we've determined that generic-mmc-raw was the right cdrdao driver to use.
Cdrdao isn't responsible for what gets written, it just takes what's in the bin/cue sheet and (tries) to write to the CD-R, so the missing cdi folder is not cdrdao's fault.

As to why it wont play in your DVD - ???
Have you ever succeeded in playing a VCD on your DVD player?

I think there's a sample VCD bin/cue here at vcdhelp that you can try writing using the cdrdao tool from vcdeasy.[/quote]

Yes, it played vcds fine when I burned the on my other computer with windows 98, nero 5.5 and yamaha drive. It won't work with the new ones made with windows xp, nero 5.5.9.0 and samsung cdr/dvd SM332B combo drive.

[Akai Rounin]

Try switching the drives... Uninstall the CD-RW drive currently in your WiinXP machine and swap it out for the one in your older system. Try again and see what happens then. Sometimes WinXP just sort of... forgets how to do things.

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin

[hardbody6pack]

I swamped the cdrw drives and still no luck. So basically it's the xp that's ******* things up for my DVD home player. Idon't now what to do at this time. I think I'm just going to burn a vcd on the new system and see which dvd player will play it in the store and get a new dvd player!!

[hardbody6pack]

YESSSS!!!!!!!!!! I just bought the Apex 1100W for $68 and it plays anything you throw at it CDRW,CDR in every color, VCD, MP3, SVCD..etc. So the problem was my $400 Panasonic DVD player was too picky with the xp coding I guess and not with the windows 98. That's the best $68 I've ever spend.