Please help vcd problem!

[klewis1160]

I have an episode of south park its already in mpeg1 format (ntsc). I tried several times to make a vcd out of it and every time I put it in my dvd player or computer is says no disc. I know my dvd player will plar cd-r's I have tried using winoncd 6.0, vcdeasy, and nero but same results with all. Any help would be great Thanks!!

[Hardcoreruss]

Is your player pal ?

Do you have all codecs installed ?

What make of dvd player do you have ?

[klewis1160]

dvd plyer ias an Apex AD1100wb and It should be ntsc I'm in the Us. What do you mean by having the codecs installed Its already mpeg1?

[Cornucopia]

1st,
Make sure your model (with Apex there are differences when made) can truly support VCD & CD-R/W. Check the player guide on the left.

2nd,
Make sure your player likes that type of CD-R media you're using. Try making another VCD of some known valid title, such as the VCD sample available here.

3rd,
Make sure your particular disc isn't all scratched up, dirty, etc. Make a duplicate if needed.

4th,
Make sure you're making a valid VCD-structured disc (not CDROM Mode1/ISO). Use VCDEasy to extract the whole disc structure and examine the XML, comparing with known good VCD XML-structure files (vis-a-vis the VCDImager site) and see if it is kosher.

5th,
Try the disc(s) out in a friend's player.

Possibilities:
Bad player--get a new one. They're not that expensive.
Bad disc--make a new one with good media. SAME reasoning.
Bad title--RE-encode. It might not be VCD-compliant even though it is MPEG1.
-OR-
--Get another good copy of the episode, this time hopefully in avi format so you can encode with strict compliance (using TMPGEnc or something else that's good) to VCD. Then make sure it's authored as a correctly structured VCD disc.

HTH,
Scott

[wallpaper]

Its quite common to think that all CDs are the same, however some types of cds wont play on some types of DVD players!
I have to use certain types (silver TDK) as others wont play. was you using the same types of cds when you tried with different programs?
Try using a silver (expensive) disk.