Can't play burned VCD's on my Panasonic DVD-RP62

[SG_Burner]

For some reason, I can't play burned regular VCD's on my DVD player, a Panasonic DVD-RP62, even though the player is VCD compliant. I burned 10 disks, and all of them keep comming up as an invalid format whenever I try to play them.

My video files were originally DivX movies with AC3 sound. I converted them to regular VCD (yes, I made sure it wasn't SVCD) with VirtualDub, HeadAC3he, and TMPGEnc, following all the steps in the tutorials. When I encoded with TMPGEnc, the only setting I changed was to make the output format Full Screen (Keep Aspect Ratio).

After I burned, I checked all of my disks out on my computer, and they all played perfectly in my DVD-ROM with InterVideo WinDVD. However, when I put them in my DVD player it says that they're an invalid format, although sometimes I can get them to play, but the audio is extremely choppy, there's little to no picture, and it freezes after a few seconds. I have no idea what's wrong, and I'm hoping some of the more experienced people here can help me. Thanks.

[gotmilkvoices]

I have the same problem, and I believe and i have been told that it is a problem because our dvd players dont read the cdr discs its not the file its the players compatability with cdr, I know it sux, It really pisses me off too, i wasted like eight discs, and it took forever to encode them

[vcd_person]

I have the same problems also. My DVD player is a Phillips, which is suppose to be VCD compatible. I made a VCD which works well on my computer, but when I play it on my DVD player, both the audio and video are very choppy. I used Videowave 4 to procedure the video, TMPGEnc to convert the avi to vcd (mpeg) format and I used Easy CD Creator to burn the vcd file onto the CD. Would it be the process in creating the vcd or is it the DVD player that is at fault?

Thanks

[SG_Burner]

I don't think it's a case of the player not being able to read CDR's. According to the manual, the DVD player should be able to read them just fine. Also, as a test I put in a CDRW with a bunch of MP3's on it, and that played just fine.

[hardwork12]

I have four different batches of CD-r media and two work just fine and two don't work at all. Two are both manufactured by TOYO YULDEN (not sure of the spelling ) and one batch works and the other does not. My player the toshiba SD1200 is picky and yours may be two.

One thing that never fails on my system is a burn with a CR-RW 4X max record speed.

Also If I record faster than 16X even with what I called good CR-r media in the VCD's format will not work either so try a slow burn.

Just a thought

[Ndb;-))]

The most compatible way I've always found for both VCD and SVCD is to use VCDEasy to create an image and then Nero (or Easy CD Creator) to burn the image. This way has worked fine for me, as both Easy CD and Nero can chuck out some crap if I just drag and drop mpeg's like they say you can.

This is just my way, but it always works.

Kevin :P