Plz Help what blank CD's do i buy???

[pmatta115]

I am new to this
I doenloaded a Seinfeld AVI file, and I am using a mpeg converter to make it playable in my DVD playerr.
What type of blank CD's do I buy?? Regular Data, Audio, or what?
When the program I am using was looking in my Computer CD burner for the target disk it did not read the blank Audio CD i put in:0
Thanks for any help

[HeatoN]

Just buy any CD-R's
And when you burn make sure the speed is around 4x - 8x

[pmatta115]

My Roxio buring progtam won't seem to read them? Am I doing something wrong??

[pmatta115]

should I put the balnk CD in without fromating it?

[dope_ryde]

To start off, most of the time you can buy the cheapest blank cd-r's you can find...

A blank cd-r is a blank cd-r. A regular data cd and an audio cd is the same thing when in the computer world. So don't waste the extra money on those audio cd-r's. An audio cd would only be needed when using one of those overpriced standalone home theater system cd writers like phillips make. The audio cd's also cost more because the riaa imposes some kind of rolaty fee on the cd's from my understanding. There is also the certifiable write speed's now on most disks... i would recommend making sure to get ones that are certified to your drive speed or higher would work fine also. Although you can disable the drive checking for the speed compatibility on the disks, and some of the cheaper disks don't even have it on them, it's still a smart idea to use that feature because it has solved some problems i have had. As far as recommending a burn speed... well my cd-rw is a 48X so naturally the first vcd I made I burnt at that speed and have had no problems, i've done quite a few now at the same speed and still no problems.. That is probably a setting that you want to experiment with yourself.

As far as cd-rw's are concerned i would assume they are the same way. That they are all the same for the most part. but you know what they say about a person that assumes things. I don't use cd-rw's anyway so I don't know much about them other than the differences between them and cd-r's.

The most of the time comes in, for example, when one of my burners no longer would burn to any disks like it used to and I had to buy disks that were recommended by the maker of my cd-rw. So you may want to find out what brands of media the maker of your drive says is supported, if they say. Such as Fuji or TDK etc. and stick to those brands. That just saves a possible hassle down the road. Apparnetly some of the new dyes they are using on the cd-r's now can gum up the laser or something... i wasn't sure of the reason why it didn't like them anymore. I was just told to only use recommended media by tech support.

And from reading the other posts of yours the major part of your problem I think you figured out on your own. Don't use a disk that you formatted previously. Take a nice new blank one and try it.... An unformatted one.

hope this helps and that no one minded my pretty long explanation.

[wiljef]

Maybe you can help me also. I have tried 8 or so different brands of cd-r and only 1 of them works in my sony dvd player. All the rest i get a "insert disc" message. I have tried all the different settings in Nero but nothing helps. Now i cannot find the brand of cd that works anymore

Does anybody come across this problem and is there a way around it?

Thanks.

[dope_ryde]

I don't know much about the compatibility of cd-r's with the actual dvd players. I have an apex ad-1500 and so far the only media I have tried is the Fuji 700MB 80Min 48x certified CD-R. I was just lucky I guess in that my dvd player plays them. I use a tdk velo-cd 48x16x48x. I'm new to the scene of creating vcd's and the likes so I'm not up to speed on all the ins and outs. I've got 7 plus years of experience with pc's and am going to school right now from computers/networking however so my knowledge is just elsewhere in computers rather than video ripping/encoding/burning (the major portion of this sites info, thats why I am here!)....

I don't see how the brand of media would really matter all that much though, and I think it might be more in the color of the dye's used on the disk (what color the disk is on the information side). You said that you found one brand that would work but can no longer find it anymore to purchase... what brand was it? maybe someone here knows where to get it. You can always check out pricewatch.com and see if you can find it on there or even do a google search. I don't know exactly what settings to use in nero. I think i pretty much just used the defaults.

I take the files i want to make a vcd (usually a divx avi) and use vdub to suck the audio out into an uncompressed wav. then I use tmpeg to split the file if neccessary, and then encoded it into the standard vcd mpeg format. Then when I used nero to burn the disk it doesn't have to encode them again and I have had no problems. There are lots of easy to follow and helpful guides on this site you can use. Thats what I did. I have read the hell out of this site and have found lots of good info.

I'd like to be able to give you a straight up answer to help ya, but I just don't have that knowledge yet. I am sure someone else on this site may be able to help you. Especially if you give more details. I would also try maybe contacting the support for your dvd player and see what brands of media they recommend. The no disc error would make me think that soemthing is up with your settings in nero too, like you suspected. But thats coming from a pc troubleshooting perspective and I don't know how it applies to dvd players. It might just have to take a bunch of tweeking or resetting things to default and trying that.

[Tbear]

Some players will not play CD-R, but will play CD-RW. And some won't play certain brands of CD-R. Some Sony models are very paticular about what they will play. You need to look to your left and look up your DVD player to find out what it will play.

www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers

I like FUJI that are made in Japan to be a good brand. I prefer the CD-R I get to be made in Japan. Seem to have less problems with them.

My Apex 1200 will play anything. While my brothers Sony won't, but my Sony will. So check the compatiblity of your player.

[Kingnog]

Apparently some of the new dyes they are using on the cd-r's now can gum up the laser or something

LOL!!!! That HAS to be the most HILLARIOUS thing I have EVER read on these forums!!! Dope-ryder......'tech support' just wants you to pay more money and buy their cd's

[arealgijoe]

:P


I have a SONY that will not read any CD-R of any brand, but it will and ahs so far read adn played any CD-RW disks I use, VCD, audioCd, even dts audio on CD-RW media.

It's NO JOKE, if you have a SONY, some models anyway.

J E

[dope_ryde]

Yeah i thought it was bs too but I will tell you what... you bring over a
cd-r that isn't tdk, fuji, sony, maxell or verbatim
and you try to burn a cd with my old burner
IT WILL RETURN AN ERROR and will not burn to it no matter what application you try to use to make a disc and no matter what kind of disc format. ( It is some kind of oddball drive calibration error in nero that they provide little information about)
I used to be able to burn any brand of media I wanted to ( A favorite was the PNY brand), but then one day it decided it didn't want to anymore.
From all the reading I have done I found that I am not the only person that experienced the same kind of problem and from the understanding I came to is that the disks are not manufactured the same and it has something to do with the dye that they use. Sounds far fetched maybe, but thats the information I found. I am sure that there is something else to it as well but that is the main thing I had found was mentioned. I don't really know what to tell you, it isn't just that tech support wants me to spend more money on disks, otherwise why would tdk tell me to use other disks other than TDK brand if that was the case??

and its dope_ryde thank you very much... not dope_ryder
would you like it if i called you king kong or eggnog? didn't think so.