Why my VCD won't play on commerical DVD/CD/VCD Player ?

[Welliep53]

Hi,
I'm new to buring VCD. I just successfuly used Creator 5 to burn a VCD using MPEG format. When I tried it on my PC, MS Win Media recognizes it ok but it won't automatically start to play until I click the Play button. No problem.

Then, when I tried to play it on my Sony DVD/CD/VCD player. The Sony player does not even recognize that I have a VCD inside. It shows "NO DISC" on its panel.

Can some please help by
1 - explaining to me what is happening ?
2 - telling me how can I correct this problem s.t. the VCD will play on any DVD/CD/VCD player ?
3 - telling me that is the capacity of the CD (i.e. 74 min/80 min) is the max limit of my movie length ?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Regards

[ghoster]

well dose it support vcd's? some don't but if it si somewhat new i don't see why it wouldn't.

[0 kewl]

When DVD player states that it accepts (S)VCDs, it means it accepts MANUFACTURED (pressed) (S)VCDs not "home made" ones. To see whether it accepts your made ones, check for CDR/RW compatibility. Hence home made (S)VCDs aren't accepted by all VCD compatible players. 74 min CDR/RW holds about 70 min in (S)VCD format (mode 2), 80 min CDR/RW - 80 min. If burned in mode 1 (data CD) then it depends on size not on length (so you can fit even 10 hours if you want to).

[schizo]

try burning your vcd on cd-rw media.

[arealgijoe]

My wife ahs a Sony AM/FM/DVD compact system in our bedroom. I willNOT play CD-Rs of any type, even audio, period.

BUT: IT will play CD-RW, GREAT!

I learned about the CD-R v CD-RW here on this site. I tried using CD-RW and the Sony (300 series) played regular audio, dts audioCDs and VCD as long as I used CD-RW media.

I am told teh issue is the diferance in the dye between CD-R and CD-RW media.

JD

[SingSing]

Read your Sony player spec/manual, if it did not say
it can play CDR or CDRW, then it can't.

Quite a few Sony actually can play CDR/W.

The long lines of people returning panasonic and Sony,
were not suprising event at all.

Both of these companies(idiots) finally cave in
and make new one read CDR/CDRW. But they
still don't do SVCD, XVCD well ( How stupid can they be )..

sigh....