Need some help with VCDs

[Jetta Knight]

I'm pretty new to this stuff and I'll do my best to explain myself.........here we go. I've been getting the buffer underrun error for awhile and I finally got that figured out so that I could burn some VCDs with Nero. I put the VCD in my DVD player and press play and all I get is a black screen with some wavy white lines across it. Help. I don't know what to do.

[aldus4]

A Bufferunderun is caused by your Burnerbuffer becoming empty whilst writing your disk - the flow of data must be continuous. You can usually solve this by lowering your burning speed and not mullti-taskling during the burn process. It's also better to stop all background programs such as virus checkers etc.

Next problem you VCD. You could have burnt a faulty disk, through your buffering problems or your VCD stream could just be faulty.

Have you been able to play the original stream (the mpeg file you created/copied/downloaded from your hard drive?
-If No, then please explain how you converted it.
-If yes, have you tried playing the VCD disk you made in
your PC CD-Player?

If it plays well in your PC Player (open Windows Media Player, go to the MPEGAV directory, and try playing the *.dat file), are you sure your standalone DVD Player will play VCD's or are you using a media type it cannot recognize? Check the DVD Player compatibility List to see if your player is listed and which media types are recommended.

If it doesn't play in your PC CD-Player your disk is faulty. Try burning again.

[Jetta Knight]

Thanks man, Will try when I get home.

[Jetta Knight]

Okay, The VCD won't play on my computer either. what does this mean???

[aldus4]

Well either that the burn process corrupted your VCD - or that what you burnt was never a VCD in the first place.

I asked before:

Have you been able to play the original stream (the mpeg file you created/copied/downloaded from your hard drive?
-If No, then please explain how you converted it.

[Jetta Knight]

The original MPEG plays fine on my comp, I've watched it a tone of times, I just can't figure out why the VCD wont play.

[Clotz2000]

Explain how you encoded the files and with what programs so we know what we're dealing with and change any settings to get it to work... Also explain what type of DVD player you got that you're trying to play it on...

[khai]

Is the original mpeg in standard VCD format? Click the "What is" link for VCD on the left.

[aldus4]

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The original MPEG plays fine on my comp, I've watched it a tone of times, I just can't figure out why the VCD wont play.
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As khai and Clotz2000 asked - is the original mpeg VCD compliant or did you encode it beofre using Nero. In Nero (which version are you using?) did you use the Video CD wizard? Did Nero complain about the specifications? If "Yes" which specifications did Nero object to?