Am I burning this oversized file wrong?

[Chancellor Todd]

Hello all, I use Roxio's VCD creator to burn my VCDs. I have an mpeg file that's just a hair over 700mb in size, and I'm having trouble burning it. I had it originally in bin/cue format, but extracted it to mpeg using VCDgear. I couldn't get Roxio to burn it at first because it said it was too big. I then created a disc image of it on my hard drive, and then burned it sucessfully. However, it will only play on my computer's DVD player, not my standalone (Sony DVP-NC600).

Should I try another program (fireburner and cdrwin have been mentioned) to burn the original bin/cue files? I haven't tried this method because I don't want to keep wasting discs and I don't know anything about overburning, if that's even involved here. I just want to be able to play this on my standalone player! I know I must be doing something wrong, because I haven't heard complaints from other netgoers who've tried to do this.

My CD writer drive is a Sony CRX100E.

[Craig Tucker]

It may be that although it is an mpeg file, it is not a vcd compliant mpeg. If this is the case just burning the mpeg to a cd will not mean that it is a vcd and your stand alone player will not play it. Even if it is a VCD compliant mpeg, making a disc image of it and burning it as a data file (mode 1) to a cdr will still not work. You need to burn it as a VCD (mode 2).

Try using your software to burn it as a VCD, if it is'nt VCD compliant it should say so, I know nero does.

If this is the case you need to reencode it as a VCD compliant mpeg, use TMPGEnc to do this. Then burn it as a VCD.

PS a mode 2 mpeg VCD is approximately 10MB/min so on an 80 min (700MB) disc you can fit an 800MB mpeg.

Craig

[boldego]

I had the same problem and then used VCDEasy and was able to overburn.

[Craig Tucker]

Like I said if its just over 700MB vcd compliant mpeg, there is no need to overburn as long as he burns it as a VCD (mode2). 700MB will be 70 minutes which will easily fit on an 80min CDR

Craig

[boldego]

No wonder I've been able to burn up to 800mb....do you know if this holds true for SVCD's?

[Chancellor Todd]

I am quite certain it is VCD compliant, as it is a two disc set and I burnt and could watch disc 2 with no problems. That one was under 700 mb.

I am hoping VCD easy will work, because I downloaded trial version of cdrwin and fireburner, but I couldn't even get the programs to work right. When I went to download the full VCDEasy from this site, it said I couldn't do it because today's download limit had been reached. I first tried yesterday at 7 pm, and today at 8 am it still said the same thing.

[agzz]

No wonder I've been able to burn up to 800mb....do you know if this holds true for SVCD's?

it does.

[agzz]

I am quite certain it is VCD compliant, as it is a two disc set and I burnt and could watch disc 2 with no problems. That one was under 700 mb.

I am hoping VCD easy will work, because I downloaded trial version of cdrwin and fireburner, but I couldn't even get the programs to work right. When I went to download the full VCDEasy from this site, it said I couldn't do it because today's download limit had been reached. I first tried yesterday at 7 pm, and today at 8 am it still said the same thing.

do you have the bin/cue?
you can use CDRdao to burn that, its free and works great.
I also have a sony CRX mine is a 140 i think.

if you need help click my dots , in the sign.

[kitty]

Nero will also let you overburn - www.ahead.de, trial available

[Chancellor Todd]

I am going to try VCDEasy and the Nero Demo tonight. if they do not work, I will just have to split the file.

I am thinking more and more that this is a problem with my standalone DVD player and not my burning drive or software.

I mean, as I stated above, Roxio did finally burn the CD. I would just like to confirm with another software (which I haven't been able to do yet) that I can burn this large file normally. Then if it doesn't play on my DVD player, I will have to move on. Also, this isn't a matter of my VCDs not working, I burn files less than 700 MB all the time successfully.

[DOGLOOP]

You will need firmware 1.0n on crx-100e at least to do squat.

If you do not have it i can provide it or url link.

If you have a newer firmware (1.0o or later) let me know.

[Chancellor Todd]

I know nothing about firmware or how to upgrade it, but my properties tab on the drive says I have 1.0m. If you could direct me how to upgrade, I would appreciate it. What exactly will this do for me? I haven't really had any problems with my burner thus far.

[DOGLOOP]

todd .... pm me back w/ your e-mail address & i'll u/l 1.0n to you ... ok?

[rickblackmon]

I have a Sony DVP CX860. It is very picky about VCD's. I created many coasters when I first started until I read somewhere in this forum that using CDRW instead of CDr media would work better. Since then I have created VCD's with EZ CD Creator, Nero, and VCD Easy, and Uleads Digital Picture Show and a couple of other freeware packages. They all worked beautifully both on PC and TV (DVD player.) The only problem I have now is that I cant control volume on TV or DVD player but I have that problem with DVD movies I have purchased.

CDRW's work goooooood.

[Chancellor Todd]

Hello all,

Sorry I couldn't post this sooner, but the forum was down as you know. Anyway, after unsuccessfully trying the demos of fireburner and cdrwin, I finall got to burn a copy using VCDEasy. And guess what? It worked!! I got it to play both on my computer's DVD player and on my Sony standalone. I'll be using that from now on for all my questionably sized VCDs.

I would like to say that I very much appreciate the prompt responses I received here. It is this site, more than any other forum I visited, that helped me to do this sucessfully.

Todd