vcd is giving a black blank?

[scotty00]

hi,
i use nero. I just drag a divx movie to nero then burn it. now when i open it on my dvd player i only hear the sound. but the picture is all black? and when i try to watch it on my computer i get nothing, no sound or picture.

What i am doing wrong?

[scotty00]

anyone?

[mats.hogberg]

Could be many things, but most notably, your method for creating a VCD isn't really up to par. If you take a look to the left, under CONVERT, you'll see many guides on how to convert a DivX AVI to VCD. None of them says: "Drag your AVI to Nero and hit burn".
To make it short:

• Encode the AVI to MPEG using TMPGEnc (using the VCD template first, then start experimenting with various settings to tweak the output)
  Create a CD image with VCDEasy
  Let VCDEasy write this image to disc, or, if that fails, use Nero (or any other cue/bin capable CD writing software you own) to write the cue/bin to CD

Your specific problem is probably due to that your computer (and hence Nero) couldn't decode the video part of the AVI, but merrily ignored that fact and went on and created an MPEG with just the sound it was able to decode.
When using specialized tools for each step in the VCD creation process instead of all-in-one applications, these kinds of problems will be discovered early in the process, and not come as an unpleasant surprise when you pop the disc into the player...

/Mats

[scotty00]

i used tmpgenc and convert it using the option "vcd ntsc"
and the movie quality came out to be very bad. not dvd like quailty, it look like the movies that ppl when to the movie theater and recorded it.

[mats.hogberg]

Of course you wont get DVD quality. For starters, depending on the original (a DVD?) it's been encoded into DivX (it could actually be from a camera in a theatre - many "early" DivX's that show up on P2P networks are!), loosing quality in the process.
You then take this 2nd generation as source material, and once again encode it, introducing even more loss in quality, not to mention lower resolution.
Neros encoding quality is the worst there is. If TMPGEnc doesn't satisfy you, Nero surely wont!

If you want anyting near DVD quality, you should try SVCD. The down side is (besides that fewer DVD players can play SVCD compared to VCD) that you have to raise the bitrate (preferrably double VCD bitrate), resulting in more CDs per movie.

/Mats