Problems burning VCD's.

[kingkill33]

I had something weird happen to me last night, I was using Roxio Platinum to burn a VCD. When it was done I had 6 files on the CD. CDDA, KAROAKE SDI, SEGMENT and a few others but no movie. But it will still play in my standalone DVD player. I tried three different times but the same thing. It will not play in my CD drive. I knew my drivers were way out of date so I tried the same thing using Nero. But the same thing happened with the same exact files. Whats up with that? Any suggestions?
I am running XP.

[secretagent]

the movie is stored on your disk as a .dat file. you can not play in in the cd drive of your computer unless you click on the dat file or install a vcd player program

[kingkill33]

I've burned VCD's before and had no problem viewing on my PC. Why did it make so many files. On a CD I burned with a 400mb movie it made the same files that a 20mb movie had, why. Like I said I've burned VCD's before and they all played fine on my PC and DVD. Will windows XP and 2000 open the .dat file? Thanks for the reply secretagent.

[noaht1980]

You can open the dat file and WMP will play it no probs

just click on the .DAT file and then when it asks what program you wanna use to open it choose your WMP = Windows Media Player

[secretagent]

vcds have a standard structure including the many files you are asking about. most likely you burned an mpeg to a data disk which can play in your cd and most dvd. however a vcd authoring program changes the mpg to a dat file

[kingkill33]

What would you recommend then so the cd would play in both without going through the hassle of choosing the program to run it?