VCD Recognize but wont play Did a search still???

[rjgogo]

I have been searching on this forum and still cant find the answer I am looking for. I burned been trying to burn a VCD to play on my compliant DVD player with no success. It would not even recognize the CD when I used Fuji CD-Rs but now that I have tried A different brand of CD-RW the player will know it is a VCD and I can press play but all I get is the sound of the drive seeking in the player. Interestingly enough when I put it back in one of my older CD writers it did the same thing and pretty much locked my system. I have tried this several times. I used VCDEasy to burn the video and everything it tells me things are fine. It is a short movie from my video tape. less then 3 minutes. I have followed the very usefull information on this site to get me this far but I can seem to make it the last two inches. even with many attempts. For more information Changing discs helped a little and I have tried different write speeds but the slowest I can go is 2x. I read here that that could be due to the players. Sorry for the novel and thanks in advance for any input.

[MaDmiZe]

First of all....a little background:A lot of DVD players say they play VCD and SVCD....but they are talking factory presses...not burnt on CDR or CDRW. My good friend has a expensive Pioneer, that has a VCD logo on the case...but the manual says that it will not play CDR or CDRW.........so guess what ....he can't play his own VCD's......too bad : (

Your Onkyo player seems to be this way....check the reviews section here....

For any one else with problems: If your player will play CDR or CDRW and VCD or SVCD and you still can't read disc....Check the VCD's first in your PC cdrom drive.....you should be able to view the dat files (on most OS's) in media player..should play like a mpg.. If not....dont expect thenm to work in stand alone.

Just read what I wrote.....please don't take offense.....I don't mean to sound like a @s# ......

[rjgogo]

Thanks for the help. Nothing to take offense to, just helpful info. I had tried to play it on my computer with InterActual player and it would not work. However given your info I also tried the other dvd player software I have which in Intervideo and that worked fine. So I am guessing from your information that I am not doing anything wrong here and I am getting a good CD and my player is the culprit. That is to bad given the time I have spent thinking it was me. I suspect that if I were able to write it at 1x I may work but I cant figure out a way for my system to burn so slow. Thanks, Rob.

EDIT, I cant play the file with Windows Media player, just the Intervideo stuff. I don't know if that makes a difference or is indicitive of a problem. Thanks, Rob.

[rjgogo]

You were right on. Tried the disk in my friends Player and it worked great.

Now on to determining if I can do a firmware upgrade to my DVD player.

THANKS AGAIN.