CD-R / CD-RW

[Howard]

Hi Guys,

I've been doing the VCD thing for about a whole 5 hours. After overcoming problems with my MPEG files (thanks to the information on this site) and finally burning my VCD my DVD player doesn't like it. I've now gone through maybe 4 CDRs.

And there is the key. Looking through the information on this site it appears that my player (RCA 5225P) only likes CDRW.

Am I correct in assuming that it's going to be simple to just use a CDRW in my CD Writer (and I'm unsure if my writer is CD-R or CD-RW)? If my drive is only CDR will it stil be able to write to the CDRW but just not re-write to it?

Thanks!

[Sefy]

Lets start with you giving us your CD Writer name so we can figure out if it can do both CDR and CDRW, as for your DVD Player, personaly I think it's rather waste of CDRW media to burn movies on them, unless you only do things for temporary usage, then CDRW is perfect.

[Howard]

OK the player is an HP and I looked at the front and it says CDRW I should have done that earlier. I'm using Nero 5.5 and my DVD is an RCA5225p. I just burnt a disc and the player won't read it.. That was a verbatim CDRW. I'm just burning a Memorex CDRW and see if that's any better.... Damn annoying.

[Sefy]

Since it's an HP, i'm presuming it's a SurePlus writer or something, any chance there is a number there you can give ?

[nvost361]

Try the CDRW. Chances are that it will work.

[eyeofbeholder]

Some DVD players are real pickey about the CDRW media. I have a JVC and it only reads CDRWs too. So far, I've only found 1 brand and type that it'll read. I've tried many brands without any success (Maxell, Verbatim, etc.)

[rdad]

eyeofbeholder, what model JVC player are you using? Also, what brand of cd-rw media are you using? Thanks in advance.

-rdad

[eyeofbeholder]

It's a JVC VX-501BK (I think). Only takes Great Quality brand 4 speed media from Frys. I've read that Memorex and Acer media work, but I haven't tried those.

[eyeofbeholder]

Excuse me, rdad. It's a JVC XV-511BK.