VCD Players won't work?

[markkreynolds]

I have made several VCD's that play on my Sony DVD system. I can't get any VCD player to work on my Mac.

I can select the VCD disk from the application, but it gives me errors, or freezes up. I have tried VLC media player, MacVCD etc.

I have a 400MHz G4, 492MB RAM, OS 10.2.4

Suggestions?

[AntnyMD]

Has anything changed in the way you author your VCDs? I recently made a VCD in using .RAW disc images from Cequadrat (now Roxio) Videopack 4, and the disc played in my Sony, but refused to mount in OS X.

[markkreynolds]

I have never been able to get a VCD player to run.

I am using MissingMPEGTools to convert the files and VCD Builder to make the bin and cue images. I burn to disk with MissingMediaBurner.

[galactica]

if you have toast, try making a disk image copy of one of the VCD's
this will be a .toast file. Simply rename this to .bin and open VLC
then open the bin file you just renamed with FILE, OPEN FILE.

see if that plays. If not, something is wrong with the authoring

but strange that your DVD will play them and not your computer.

[AntnyMD]

Are you authoring them with menus? That could be the source of your authoring problem.

[markkreynolds]

I have been authoring menu's. What are the limitations on Computer-based VCD players with menu's?

Aren't the menu's and disk setups just scripts? What's the big problem for the players?

Is there any VCD builders that minimize the incompatibilities?

[AntnyMD]

I have pressed discs with menus that either won't play in VLC, or will play in VLC in track-mode only (the equivalent of PBC turned off). Menuing on a VCD is tricky to author, in that one mistake will render the disc unplayable with PBC turned on.

Some software players may support parts of the VCD2.0 spec and not others. For example, you may be able to play PAL VCDs, but not menus; or will only play the video tracks but not any of the CDDA audio tracks. Some players support only parts of the VCD1.1 spec by playing NTSC video rate, but not NTSC film rate. I haven't seen any players that claim support for VCD3.0.

VCD was messy. Thank god for DVD.