vcd 1.1?? no more vcd 2.0 when I burn

[FiveSK]

I have done lots of searches in the forum to find my answer.. I can't find it.. maybe im not looking hard enough but.. heres my problem.. Ive been burning movies to a cd-r for a VCD format.. lately the videos have been working with the procedures ive been doing.. avi to mpeg to bin/cue and cdrwin to burn.. and it shows up as VCD 2.0 .. now when I burn it says on my DVD player VCD 1.1 .. I was wondering why its only burning 1.1.. am I missing a step? I can't watch anything and my DVD supports VCD but I guess not 1.1... Thanks if any1 can help me.. if not that's okay.

[Cornucopia]

You didn't really give us much details, so I couldn't tell you much more.

However, it's quite impossible for a DVD player to support VCD 2.0 and NOT support 1.1 (it's a precursor/subset of the other), although it's possible for the reverse to be true.

Let us know...

Scott

[FiveSK]

Okay sorry if it didnt make much sense.. what im trying to say is.. When I use to burn vcd on my computer with a CDR.. it use to say on my dvd VCD 2.0 and PLAY.. but now when I burn VCD it says VCD 1.1 and it wont play anymore.. how come its burning 1.1 and not 2.0? I have an option to select 2.0 but its not burning right.

[Cornucopia]

Err...Right. (This actually isn't a function of "burning" though; it's AUTHORING that matters).

Do us a favor,

With VCDEasy ( [Tools | (S)VCD Build/Rip | "Disassemble a (S)VCD disc"] ), you can rip the contents and structure of a VCD disc (for use in re-authoring).
You can also rip just an XML text of the structure/layout for organizational inspection (see the checkbox for "XML only").

Rip an XML of a known good old VCD 2.0 disc.
Then Rip an XML of a current VCD 1.1 disc.

Post the text here.

Should be more clear at that point...

Scott

[Cornucopia]

You know what, in the original post you didn't mention anything about authoring,
just AVI-->MPEG-->BIN/CUE-->BurnCD (Via CDRWin). The authoring is the MPEG-->BIN/CUE part.

How do you do this? With what applicaton?

Scott

[FiveSK]

haha ahh im so lost.. okay this is what im doing.. I downloaded an avi right, convert it to mpeg using winavi video converter.. i did avi to mpeg option vcd lala and converted the mpeg.. then I use VCDImagerGUI to make the mpeg into a bin/cue.. then I use cdrwin to burn it.

[FiveSK]

ahh i dont understand why i have to author.. I didnt have to before.. all I did was burn and it played on my dvd and on the top screen of my t.v. it would say vcd 2.0.. now when I burn a video it just appears black and says VCD 1.1...

[Cornucopia]

VCDImagerGUI is a VERY plain and simple GUI frontend for the VCDImager VCD authoring software. There are better front ends: VCDEasy, TSCV, VCDWizard.

If, however, all you want to do is have you player play the 1 file, VCDImagerGUI should be OK.

Now, v1.1 vs. v2.0 in this respect is basically irrelevant, as they would both treat a single piece of sequence video the same way--create an AVSEQ##.DAT file/M2F2 track. (Incidentally, you DVD player should treat both of these the same way).

Sounds like your copy of VCDImagerGUI, or VCDImager, or CDRDAO is corrupted maybe.
Try uninstalling & re-installing. Or try installing one of those other frontend GUIs.
You can still save to Bin/Cue and burn the way you've been.

The only other suggestion would be to see if what you've been expecting your DVD player to do was AUTORUN. It might be possible that it Autoruns VCD 2.0 discs and doesn't for VCD 1.1, and you're never hitting the PLAY button manually...??

HTH,
Scott

[FiveSK]

Okay ill try those above, but ive hit the play button manually.. actually I hit it so hard lol anyways ive done whatever to run the video to play 1.1 but it just doesn't play.. I do have CDRDAO or w/e installed but it seems like it doesnt even work =\.. i unistall the vcdimagergui and reinstall or download a different onelike u reccomended me.. thanks for the help.. ill see in 10 min whats up.