Highest compatible cd-r media

[goffs]

Hi,

I'm still kind of new to the vcd world, and I appologize if this is the wrong forum for my topic. What I'm interested in is in general which kind of cd-r media is compatible with the most dvd players. I'm asking because I made a vcd that worked fine in my dvd player at school. But when I took it home, it failed to play in 3 out of 3 of other players i tested it in. All three of the players were vcd compatible. Two of the players were sony and the other was hitachi. I used a fuji film cd-r 48X capable disc which was blue. Are there better colors that are more universally compatable with dvd players? Which are best? I have a 48X burner so I'd like to be able to get discs that support high speeds. Any thoughts would be GREATLY appreciated.

[tonyp12]

3 out of 3 did not play the disc?

I think it must gotten scratched on the way home.

Or you burned in a non-standard VCD style,
and first player was not that picky.

But the other 3 needed 100% VCD-standard to work.

As say this as must people in this forum use bulk CDR
and no typical brands are mentioned as being preferd.

P.S try to burn at 12x or something around that speed as a test.

[PhaRxmerD.O.n]

Did you try only one disc in those players at home or did multiple discs not work?

I have found Fuji (Taiyo in most instances - use CDRIdentifier to get ATIP) to be a very good media and able to work in almost all players I've tried. The key that I have found is making sure that your encode is compatible with the player. I found out the hard way that I was encoding XVCDs that played in my standalone fine, but when it died, not even old Apex players would play it correctly (or even the newer model of the player that had worked originally!) In the process now of going to CVD which I tried out in many players at the local stores so that I knew it had a wide compatibility.

Hope I was of some help.

[goffs]

Ok, let me go over the burn process to make sure everything is how it is supposed to be:

First I ripped the audio with VDub
Next I used TMPGEnc to fuse the audio and video together in the vcd format.
Finally I used Nero 5.5.9.14 burning rom to put the video on the disc, and added a menu screen with a pic and all that good stuff.

Is there something else I should be doing to make it better?

I've heard that there are differences in cd color so if anyone else has any ideas with that i'd be very interested.

[tonyp12]

First I ripped the audio with VDub

Ripping?

Ripping is when you use the cracked encryption key
and rip the DVD VOB files.

Did you mean capture? or maybe demux?

You did not mention where the Video came from.

[TheInformer]

Strangely enough, I've found that when you burn audio CDs and use colored CDRs (blue, green, etc), some audio CD players do not read them. I've never had a problem when I've used silver bottomed CDRs.

[ke6yks]

wondering if I might be having the same problem as I bought maxell
CD-R "Music" for audio recording. They are blue, green, and orange. I haven't successfully burned a VCD yet, but my proceedure was about the same as yours: (capture, vdub, tmpgenc, vcdeasy) and I thought for sure it would work this time. It didn't. Going to try to find my silver discs and see if that will make a difference. (next day Silver disc, no difference. I was able to copy a known actual VCD and the copy worked. (I'll just follow this thread to see if I might gain some info.

[goffs]

Well it's official now, this process isn't a good one. I just tested the discs I burned with 2 other dvd players, a playstation 2 and a toshiba and they didn't work. What will make these puppies play? A different color? Burning at slower speed? I followed the steps on the website to a T, the only difference really being that I used Nero to burn. What's the deal? I'm frustrated!

[BJ_M]

do they play on your pc ?

[goffs]

Yes, the cd's are all picked up by the remote center that comes with the soundblaster audigy platinum as being Video CD and can be played fine through the remote.

[Nelson37]

PS2 will not play Video on CD without additional software. Many Toshiba players will play only a true VCD.

You did not specify your encoding step. Did you maintain strict compliance with VCD specs? What is the source for the video?
More information needed on "use TMPGenc to fuse the audio and video".

Nero menus are known to be incompatible with many players. Eliminate the menu and see if playability improves.

Elaborate on "they don't play". What EXACTLY happens?

My suspicion is that you have made an XVCD and have a VCD only Toshiba, maybe an Apex at school, which will play most anything. PC also will play virtually any spec disk.

[goffs]

Ok Nelson, to answer your questions:

First the source of the video was a download from Kazaa, an episode of a show. I followed the directions on the guide on this site on how to go about encoding a divx file.

What I did was use vdub to open the mpeg, then I saved the .wav file for it. I opened up TMPG, loaded the same mpeg video file under source video, then loaded the newly created sound file under source sound, then picked a directory to save it under. Under stream type - Load, i selected VideoCD (NTSC).mcf since the file's framerates are 29.75 (or around that area in which you should select this format) Then I clicked start and the whole process took about 45minutes.

When the disc do not play: the errors I get are always "no disc" or "please insert disc" something to that tune: the player is not reading the disc at all.

I have been burning these guys at 48x. Is this the problem do you think? Maybe i should bump down to 12x? What is a good safe speed?

[BJ_M]

encoding a divx you say ? or encoding a mpeg ?

v-dub doesnt open mpeg files (directly) ...

[goffs]

i don't know if i maybe screwed up some technical lingo, but the deal is is the origional file is divx, and i'm making it into a vcd. so i opened up the DIVX file with VDub, and seperated the audio, and went from there.

[Nelson37]

Lower your burning speed and try different media.