VCD's suddenly wont work on new player

[chewyshaun@hotmail.com]

Hi, I have been using smartripper, dvd2avi and TMPGenc and burning VCD's with Nero. I have made many VCD's in the past all working fine on my SAMSUNG 709. I bought a Schneider 857 to play XVCD's and also a new laptop . My VCD's that I made (before I got the laptop) on Vivastar media works fine on the Schneider and the Samsung. Any new VCD's I make on the laptop with the same media will work on the Schneider for about 40 mins and then gets heavily distorted but will work on the Samsung 709. I still burn with Nero and use all the same programs I used before. I have tried different media and the best was datasafe blue which gets distorted after about 55mins of the film, can anyone help as I want to use the Scneider player for its apparent XVCD capabilities but anything I do now, it wont even play VCD's correctly? Is it my laptop or what?

[Craig Tucker]

Have you tried burning at a lower speed. Certain combinations of burners and media need to be burned at lower speeds than other or the picture can break up and become pixellated.

[chewyshaun@hotmail.com]

The minimum speed I can burn is at 4speed, it is a combiation DVD and CDRW drive. The Schneider plays my old VCD's (before I got the laptop which were burned at 4 speed, its just really weird