Samsung DVD M205

[gmatov]

Is anyone using a Samsung DVD M205?
The compatibility at the top of the 205 list shows it to play EVERYthing, but I can't get one to play any of my converts, to VCD, SVCD, XVCD, XSVCD, CVD. Always No Disk, or Disk Not Playable.
I got excited, recently, when I learned of the CVD option in DVD2SVCD, burned one, went to my kids house, (got to spend a few hours with the newest g'son, anyway, so not a waste of time ) and the same thing.
I don't know, do I need special bitrates for this lousy machine? I gifted it to them 2 Christmases ago, and now wish I'd been a cheapskate and gotten an APEX.
I want to put their Wedding Video VHS on CD-R, and simply can't get it to play.
Help needed.
Thanks.

[Dennis1968]

Some DVD players will not play anything that is burned to a CD or CDRW
will only accept store bopught DVDs, stor bopught CDS and recordable DVDs, had a Sony and a Samsung that was that way.

[Dennis1968]

i would also for future reference. do not rely on what you burn as a media compatibilty test, buy officially pressed VCDs and SVCDs from the internet. I did that to discover the problem was not that i made a mistake in burning a disc, it was merely that the only thing it wouls accepot was Silver Discs (store bought)

[gmatov]

That doesn't do me a hell of a lot of good.
I want to take my backups while babysitting, and, as I said, their Wedding Video, on CD-R.
The Philips 724 I bought a month or so ago, handles anything. The APEX 1201 that died just before that, handled anything.
Just this damned Samsung won't handle anything but a commercial DVD. I don't (yet ) burn DVDs, so don't know if it will play them or not.
Any more help?