it doesnt work. is it supposed to?

[flyingpiano]

my DVD player is an Apex, AD-1100W.

I am awfully new to VCDs and the like. following instructions, I burned a VCD using nero, i am quite sure i did it properly.

My DVD player gives a NO DISC message when i try to play my VCD. After seeing this i assumed that it did not support VCDs. i looked at what people had said about this product's performance on this website, and i found that other people have successfully made working VCDs and played them on my model..

i am a newbie and completely unsure of what i am doing. I asked a friend, and she simply said that if VCDs were supporting, it should work fine with no hassle.

please help me if you can. thanks. in the meantime, i am going to read up on the subject.

[johneboy]

my DVD player is an Apex, AD-1100W.

There is 2 versions of the AD-1100W.
1 plays VCDs... the other doesnt.

I think you can tell by whether or not the VCD logo on the box is covered up by a white sticker or not.

[Tbear]

All Apex models manufactured after 15 April 2002. Do not suport VCD's, Apex didn't want to pay the licencing fees for VCD's. So if you Apex 1100w was made after 15 April 2002 you will have to do SVCD's or DVD's.

[macleod]

I also have a 100w apex and it does play vcd,svcd,xvcd,cvd,dvd-r/w,dvd, etc, however, it depends on what 100w you have(when it was made). Go to www.nerd-out.com and they will have threads that talk about this (tyy a search here as well as it has been talked about here too).

in the event you do have the "older" 1100w 1mb model (a possible easier quick look is to look at the front of your player that has the dvd, etc. lights on it. Does it say VCD on it? Does the box say that it supports vcd?

If all those things are in line, it may be anything from the media used to how fast you burned the vcd. In nero, did you verify that it was vcd compliant? Did you burn at the slowest speed (may be the problem). Did you try a different brand of CD. If you didnt encode with nero (and nero did not tell you it was out of compliance) you should be OK and it is something else.

[flyingpiano]

i dont know about the box, but the front of my player certainly does not say it supports VCDs. my version is the one made after 2002, i think.

thank you all for your help. could anyone recommend an affordable, reliable dvd player?

[Craig Tucker]

Alba DVD114, plays everything and only £69.95 (from Argos in the UK)

[davemcg37]

toys-r-us do a medion dvd player for £79.95 and it'll play anything you throw at it without any hacking

[SatStorm]

A cheap trick to cheat your player:
De-muxx your VCD and Re-mux it as SVCD. Then burn your file as SVCD (non standard) with nero. It gonna play, but you are -X-. That means it works on your player and many others, not all.
When the time comes and you buy a DVD Recorder (a year or so, as all of as..), then remember to de-mux this file again after ripping it from this xSVCD you made, re-mux it as VCD and burn it to your DVD-R.
With a small change of the audio (upsampling) you don't need to re-encode again and you gonna have your material to DVD without quality loss