Help cant play VCD on my DVD players

[markmg]

i have made a vcd with nero but i cant play them on my DVD players.

TYPE
alpine DVA-5205P witch supports VCD
and a Sony type DVP-NS300 witch also supports VCD

can anyone please tel me what i am doing wrong??
it works fine on my pc with power dvd 4.0


Thanks,
Mark

[bartman]

Try burning an audio CD and try playing that in your DVD player. If that doesn't work then your DVD player does not support CD-R.

[KingJohn]

i have made a vcd with nero but i cant play them on my DVD players.
TYPE
alpine DVA-5205P witch supports VCD
and a Sony type DVP-NS300 witch also supports VCD

can anyone please tel me what i am doing wrong??
it works fine on my pc with power dvd 4.0
Thanks,
Mark

Who says the NS300 plays VCD (CDR)

http://www.techtronics.com/uk/shop/50-sony-dvp-ns300-multi-region-dvd-player.html

VCD, CD (No CDR)

[markmg]

I tried playing an audio cd and that didnt work either.

Sorry i didnt know that my dvd player had to support cdr to play VCD

what is the difference between a original cd and a cdr ? they are still both cd's? my navigation computer dos not support cdr but it can stil read my copy's of the maps with are cdr's??? i dont get it
isnt there a way of burning a cd that it can be done ??
Thanks for the help

Mark

[Mirror_Image]

what is the difference between a original cd and a cdr ? they are still both cd's? my navigation computer dos not support cdr but it can stil read my copy's of the maps with are cdr's??? i dont get it

Retail CDs, VCDs, and DVDs are pressed/stamped using very expensive, precise equipment, not burned on recordable media, and this ensures excellent compatibility in all players that support those formats.

[Executioner]

Try using a CD-RW instead of a CD-R. I had the same problem with my Sony, but a CD-RW worked. I later found out that CD-R's with the STI brand from Circuit City work great, because they have a higher reflective coating than most standard CD-R's. These CD-R's work great on my Sony with no problems.

[bartman]

The problem is in the way light is reflected back to the laser pickup. A regular pressed CD has pits and lands so when the laser hits a pit, the light is reflected away from the pickup. A CD-R uses coloured dye which is burnt (hence the term "burning a CD-R") to create a dark patch. When the laser hits the dark patch the light is blocked, simulating a pit.

The laser pickup in 1st gen DVD players only had one wavelength and since it relies on the ammount of light REFLECTED back, pressed CD's are not a problem since light is either reflected TO or AWAY from the pickup. However, the dye used in CD-R's just happens to be invisible to the laser used to read DVD's, so when you put a burnt CD into your DVD player all it "sees" is 100% reflectance and rejects it.

Newer DVD players can change the wavelength of their laser and can therefore read CD-R (and in most cases CD-RW as well).

[KingJohn]

I tried playing an audio cd and that didnt work either.
Sorry i didnt know that my dvd player had to support cdr to play VCD
what is the difference between a original cd and a cdr ? they are still both cd's? my navigation computer dos not support cdr but it can stil read my copy's of the maps with are cdr's??? i dont get it
isnt there a way of burning a cd that it can be done ??
Thanks for the help
Mark

Audio CD (Commercial) should work ?

Yep, most people see VCD and think great it supports them, but like said above the disks we make on CDR are nothing like commercial VCD's

"navigation computer dos not support cdr"
What does that mean ? Either you don’t have a CD writer, or you don’t have a CD-Rom

The trouble with saying that they wont work, is...

If there has been a modification and the player is still released with the same number, it can sometimes work, I don’t want to build your hopes up.

But if you used TMPGEnc with a PAL/NTSC template to make a VCD or a CDR\CDR-W on a good quality disk that is as best as you can do, if that don’t work nothing will.

[markmg]

Thanks for all the help

I tried playing a cdrw in my sony dvd player and it works
only my alpine dvd player dos not seem to work with cdrw

"navigation computer dos not support cdr"
What does that mean ? Either you don’t have a CD writer, or you don’t have a CD-Rom

Sorry i meant my navigation computer from my GPS in the car VDO DAYTON witch works with cdrom's for the road maps.
on the box it had a red cross on it saing it did not support cd-r but i have tried to copy a map on a cdr and works perfect

Dos anyone have a idea how i can get the vcd working on my Alpine dvd player how mutch would it cost to burn it original and is it possible to upgrade de dvd player software(if it has any) so it can see cdr???

Thanks again
Mark

[KingJohn]

GPS (Show off)

Dos anyone have a idea how i can get the vcd working on my Alpine dvd player how mutch would it cost to burn it original and is it possible to upgrade de dvd player software(if it has any) so it can see cdr???

How much would it cost to burn it original ?
They don't "Burn" them they press them, and I don't think they would be interested in making just one disk

You need to search around for "firmware" upgrades, you might get lucky