Problem with Nero 6

[Na$]

Ive made many vcds in the past using nero 5...and everything would work fine. I stopped making vcds for a few months and installed nero 6.

Now when i burn a vcd everything would burn fine (no popups or anything)...But when i try playing it in my dvd player the menu screen will show for a split second then disappear (black screen). I can still press 1 to start the movie.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks in advance.


Nas

[pelican71]

Hi Na$,

I'm having the same problem as well when creating the VCD..."stuck" when position the menu page (always blank and only saw the split page once at first time!!)..in fact I need to press "1" to continue the rest...

Is is the bug? I have tried to update the patches from Nero on 18.03.2004 but it seems this problem was never been rectified!!

Anyone knows or encounters this problem?

TQ.

regards,
choon

[mats.hogberg]

The solution is simple: Use VCDEasy to author. Nero is a competent app when it comes to burning stuff to disc, but let's leave it at that.

/Mats

[Na$]

Thanks mats.hogberg...i plan on trying VCDEasy now

But do u or anyone else kno why nero is having that problem


Nas

[mats.hogberg]

Nero always (in each and every of their numerous releases) has some malfunction in some aspect(s) of its ever expanding palette of what it claims to do. It's very simple: The more features you add to an application, the greater the risk that you introduce a bug somewhere. Nero has grown from an excellent application for writing stuff to writable CD/DVD media, to still be excellent at writing stuff to writable CD/DVD media, but just fair-to-unusable at a lot of other stuff. I guess that VCD authoring just isn't their top priority.

/Mats

[Na$]

I forgot to ask.

When making a vcd with VCDEasy whats the best guide to use and do i still use TMPGenc to encode before i put into VCDEasy.

Can u give me some tips on using this program?

Thanks again.

Nas

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, you still encode to VCD mpeg, and then let VCDEasy take it from there. As the guides section is searchable by tool, I suggest you search for guides where VCDEasy is involved.
If you want to use VCDEasy to burn the VCD to disc (not just author), you got to have a working ASPI layer on your system. If not, I recommend ForceASPI.
You can also use VCDEasy to just create the VCD image - just uncheck the "Burn" checkbox. VCDEasy will then stop after creating the VCDImage, which you can write to disc using "any" burning software that supports writing of cue/bin. Nero is one of them.

/Mats

[Na$]

Thanks man...

Ill post back when i make another vcd...working or not


Nas

[crashnburn]

my problem is different. After I ripped it with EazyVCD, I used Nero 6 to burn the VCD to disc but on my dvd player, the only screen I see is "Created by Nero" and I can't do anything from there. The burning with Nero is just a simple process of creating new VCD, and add the file that was ripped by EazyVCD but it got stuck when I tried to play it on my dvd player. My Dvd player is able to play any VCD because it works on other VCD disc I tried.