AVI to VCD wont play on newer dvd player

[volt48]

Hi, Can anyone help? I have an AVI file (CD-R disk) that plays on my windows media player just fine (win 98), I wanted it to play on my dvd player (pioneer dv-260) after many days, and now weeks, of learning about this stuff, I used “X video converter” trial version to convert the AVI to VCD on a CD-R disk 48X (My write speed was 2X) on cd writer HP 7200 series.

It won’t play on my dvd player, I also tried burning a CD-RW disk, that also didn’t play on the dvd player, It says, “can’t play disk”. My dvd player does support vcd and jpeg etc.. and I read through the dvd manual.

Am I missing a step? I read somewhere that maybe I need to add tracks to the VCD, but the Xvideo converter software says that after you convert to vcd, and burn to cd-r, you can play it on the dvd player.

Any help is appreciated, I have searched this site for an answer.

[sacajaweeda]

Try VCDEasy.

[volt48]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I downloaded VCDEASY version 1.1.5.2 and it does not support a MPEG file with no audio. My original avi, converted to mpeg, never had any audio to begin with, I forgot to add that to my first post.

thanks anyways,

Please add any new info, I still can't play it on my dvd player.

Neewbie....
volt48

[JEEPn]

use g-spot on the AVI to see what codecs are used. install those codecs if you don't already have them installed. Use TMPEGenc to encode the AVI to a MPG and then use VCDeasy to create the VCD. Should work if you have audio or not.

HTH

[volt48]

Thanks for your help,

I was missing a step, I need to author the mpeg-1 video. I didn't know that before. After reading VCDEasy user guides (thanks to your replies) I now understand the authorizing stuff. I had thought you could burn to VCD right after converting to mpeg-1

One problem left is that VCDEasy won't author my mpeg-1 because it has no audio, it never did. VCDEasy says "analyse failed" "not multiplexed"

I downloaded trial V2.0.0 and I get the same error/problem.

Do i need to add audio? or look for a similar program like vcdeasy that works with no audio on my mpeg-1 video?

Neewbie...
Volt48

[volt48]

After trying tmpgen, I had no audio issues with vcdeasy.

Thanks to all