VCD player will only play VCD's burnt in a particular burner

[david_v_rich]

I recently purchased a Supertek MP-2001V portable cd/mp3/vcd player. It plays factory stamped VCD's and VCD's I burnt with my old Mitsumi 4x burner just fine. Any VCD's I try and burn with my new Sony CRX175I2 it recognizes and try's to play but doesn't do it sucessfully. I get good audio but the video is all blocks and updates in chunks. I would surmize that there is a way to set my Sony burner to burn in the same fashion as my old Mistsumi except that I am not sure what kind of setting problem I am facing. I have burnt discs in the Sony down to 4x speed with all burn proof options turned off and all drive auto insert notification turned off with no change in playability on this unit.

Any help as to how I may be able to set up my Sony CD burner to be able to burn compatible VCD's for my portable Supertek MP-2001V unit would be greatly appreciated.

David Rich

[vitualis]

It could possibly be a media issue... Not all CD-ROM based drives (especially cheaper ones) can read all types of CD-R well. Have you tried other brands of CD-R?

Regards.

[david_v_rich]

I have tried 3 different kinds of media but with the same results. No that you mention it though the recordable media that worked is an older Verbatim 1x - 8x type. Although 1 of the 3 different kinds I tried was a Teac CDRW 4x - 10x which is real close to color as the older verbatim. The crazy part is that the unit will read all these different media types when used for CD and MP3 discs just not VCD's.

[david_v_rich]

I have just confirmed that it is the burner. I used the same media in different burners. I used the newest Nero 5.5 release. When burnt with my newer Sony 24x burner or Pioneer DVD burner the VCD's have trouble playing in the Supertek MP-2001v player. Once I burn the VCD's in my old Mitsumi 4x burner they work just fine.

Any body have any ideas as to why this is so I can make my 24x burner burn VCD's that will work in my new Supertek player and not have to go back to my 4x burner all the time?

Thanks,

David Rich

[david_v_rich]

Solution found!!!! It turns out it isn't the burner or media at all but the format of the video. I made the assumption that the US VCD standard of 352x240 would be just fine, wrong. The video must be recorded down in the 352x288 PAL VCD standard. Once that is done it plays beautifully on any media burnt at any speed. Hope this helps somebody else.

[tjdmobile]

Question on the Pal / NTSC thing. Are you in the US or elsewhere (PAL)? I was frustrated as heck myself with the EXACT same issue. I have an old 4x burner and a 24x Sony. When I burn at 8x, the VCDs work fine. Are you saying that you burn PAL to use in NTSC region?

Thanks!