Problems with Sony DVP-NS315/VCD's

[CDial]

I've been having nothing but trouble with this since I started, so I'm probably doing something wrong..in either case, I've been trying to encode VCD's for my player since I've got it and burning them onto 700MB CD-R's with an Acer 4x4x32 CDRW. The very first one I did worked perfectly (non-standard VCD, burned with VCDEasy, video bitrate 620, audio 128), but every one after that has messed up entirely. Problems range from green blocks all over the screen to sections that repeatedly skip back over each other, to the player reporting that the disk is "dirty" (being that it only just came out of the box, I can't imagine there's that much dirt ;>) Has anyone else had problems with this player, or is there some other step I should be taking?

On a sidenote, since I didn't think to mention it earlier, I'm using the latest version of TMPGEnc :>

[CDial]

Oh, and if I might add, anyone with that same model player that wouldn't mind sharing the usual process they take for creating VCD's succesfully would be appreciated as well..feel free to be verbose about it as you like, since I'm pretty new at this myself ;>

[vitualis]

Your player can't read your brand of CD-R blanks properly...

Try other brands of CD-R media. CD-RW often works better in these cases.

To see if your player can actually read the CD-R discs properly, try burning an audio CD on the same media.

Regards.

[dreadogg]

I just use nero, not sure what settings but Im pretty sure its just cd-vidcd-drag drop

[CDial]

Thanks, I went and gave another set of 700MB CD's a try. The tests I gave it were both the VCD/NTSC and VCD/PAL images from this site, as well as a PAL DivX that I had downloaded from the DivX webpage. They all seemed to play just fine, menus and all, on both types of CD-R's (Mitsumi and Maxell).

The only difference I noticed between the non-working and working CD's that I've burned is that previously all the ones I had created (and that worked, a whole 2 ;>) were either NTSC or PAL..the one that I'm currently having trouble with is in the range of 23-24FPS, so I had been using the "NTSC-Film" option on TMPGEnc for the conversion (converting a DivX to a VCD). Could this be the problem? I've also been burning them at 4x (on a 4x4x32 Acer CDRW), I planned to try burning one at 2x as well to see if that would make any difference. Other than that I'm pretty confused :>

Your player can't read your brand of CD-R blanks properly...

Try other brands of CD-R media. CD-RW often works better in these cases.

To see if your player can actually read the CD-R discs properly, try burning an audio CD on the same media.

Regards.