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[TheScope]

My Phillips DVD Player is compatible only with 2.0 VCD's, and when I put in a version 1.0 It is black and white, and waves all over the place. My questions are, Are there certain settings I can use with NERO to make it a 2.0 VCD, and is there any way of telling which kind of VCD you have, 1.0 or 2.0 after making the cd?

[aldus4]

Nero version 5.5 (I'm not sure about earlier versions) supports VCD 2.0. Normally If your player will take VCD's at version 2.0 it shuold be backward compatible (meaning it should take version 1.1 and version 1.0).

Are you sure you are using the correct TV System i.e. are you checking the PAL box with a PAL VCD or NTSC box with a NTSC VCD?

As for the difference between 1.0 and 2.0 read this article
http://www.cdrinfo.com/articles/videocd/
or vitualis mentioned that the manual to VCDImager gives a good description as well.

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[TheScope]

See thats the thing, i looked in the back of my dvd manual and it says under compatability 2.0. And I'm not sure which kind of VCD I'm using. Because I had a VCD of Shrek which waved up and down and was in black and white, then I got kiss of the dragon, and it played perfectly fine. And what exactly did u mean about the NTSC and the PAL settings?? Thanks for your reply

[aldus4]

In Nero you choose what type of VCD you are making - either PAL (Europe, Asia) or NTSC (USA). When you start Nero and choose Video CD setting the first tab (Video CD) has a box with encoding resolution on it. Here is where you choose the correct resolution for you VCD. If it says in your manual that it will play VCD 2.0 it will be backwards compatible.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: aldus4 on 2001-07-16 20:01:18 ]</font>

[TheScope]

I used vcdimager and used a small mpeg file to make one 1.1 VCD, and one 2.0 VCD, and none of them worked on my player. Im all out of ideas

[aldus4]

I think your problem isn't the VCD 2.0/1.1/1.0 specifications. I think it may be a media problem. You reported that you had seen one VCD that worked and one that didn't. Were these original commerical VCD's? If so I presume your DVD Player won't play CD-R's or at least not all layered ones. Check out your DVD Player in the DVD Player compatibility list on this site to see which CD-R(W)'s it will play - also check out the comments left by other users. You might need to upgrade your Firmware. If you get really stuck what to do, use the search facility and use as keyword "Philips" - you'll see alot of forum messages written about them.

[vitualis]

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This sounds VERY much like a PAL/NTSC problem.

TheScope, where do you live? If you live in North America or Japan then you use the NTSC TV system. If you play a PAL VCD, then you could face the problems you are describing.

Look in your DVD manual. Does it say that it can play back NTSC and PAL DVD/VCDs? IF so, do you need to change some setting on your DVD player?

If you DVD player can only output in NTSC, you will need a multisystems TV.

Regards.

[TheScope]

Thanks a lot guys, you've been really helpful. I'm gonna try to maybe switch my cd-rs, or maybe dry a cd-rw. And I'll check the manual and stuff.

The VCD that worked was not a commercial VCD, it was the same Cd-r's that I've been using, thats the confusing me.