vcd's runnin on stand alone vcd player but not on my pc?

[mfahad]

hello

i bought a couple of vcd's some of them are runing on both
vcdplayer n pc but a couple of them not running on pc..i get invalid
file format errors when i run using media player..and sometimes i get
the error that cd is not formatted..it doesnt even recognizes that
there is a cd in the cdrom... can anyone please help?? do i need any
codec..is there anyway to make vcds s that they only run on stand alone vcd players n not on computers..if there is than is there anyway out?? im really stuck here!!! pleaaasee help

thank you

[vitualis]

If you make a VCD with a corrupted filesystem (or does not contain one), it will not play on your PC. However, it will still probably work properly on a stand-alone VCD player as they don't really look at the filesystem.

You could try to use CloneCD / CDRWin to extract an image of the disc and then use some tool (e.g., VCDGear or ISOBuster) to extract the MPEG out of the disc.

Regards.

[mfahad]

Hii

thanks for the tip.. i will try it..but will CloneCD / CDRWin read from the vcd when windows is saying that the cd is not formatted??

Fahad

[vitualis]

I've never tried it myself as I don't have one of these VCDs, but it is probably your best bet... BlindRead is another option...

Regards.