Nero Encoded VCD Won't Play in Standalone

[gmercoleza]

Thanks in advance for your help.

Home-burned VCD, can play .dat file with Media Player, and WinDVD plays as VCD 2.0 just fine. Also my standalone Apex (AD-600A c. 1999) detects and plays it as VCD 2.0 just fine. Took it to the electronics store and tried it in about 6 current players and it won't play (all were VCD and CD-R/RW compatible). It won't play in my parents' brand new Panasonic HDTV with built-in DVD player (though it is VCD and CD-R/RW compatible).

I am 99% sure it is a problem with encoding the .mpg file, because when I try to burn to VCD using Nero, it tells me the file is not compliant. I've just been ignoring the message and burning anyway since my Apex plays the discs fine (there's hardly anything it won't play), but I want to start making fully compliant VCDs that I can share with friends and family. To further my suspicion that it is a problem with encoding, Adaptec EZ CD Creator 4 tells me the .mpg file is not VCD compliant.

Here's the process I currently follow
1. Rip using Smart Ripper (if backing up DVD)
2. Convert using DVD2AVI (if backing up DVD)
3. Encode using TMPGEnc
4. Burn using Nero

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

[jimot]

Have Nero Reencode the mpg for you. It takes a while, but it can play on standalone players

[puertorican138]

Have Nero Reencode the mpg for you. It takes a while, but it can play on standalone players

Don't EVER encode with Nero !!! Have TMPGEnc re-encode the file for you using the VCD templates.


Hope That Helps!!! :P

[darkangel]

what exactly is nero saying this will tellu where the problem is

[wee haggis]

Nero = great Burner
Nero = crappy encoder

[dc91gt]

Lots of players will only play "vcd spec compliant" mpegs. If nero is complaining, then you are not encoding to VCD spec (1150kbps cbr, 224 audio, 320x240). Apex and several others will play xvcd - which is why it works on that box.

Load the wizard in tempgenc for VCD and re-enode it.