help on burning vcds please!!

[omgrade13]

I'm desperate. I have been trying to burn a simple VCD with zero success. It always says "No Disc" on my DVD players (KLH 33?? and a basic Samsung DVD player) and I am positive that they both play VCDs using some of my friends VCDs. I am using a Samsung 308B CD burner and I have tried with both Nero 5 and VCDEasy which both say they work fine with my burner. I am positive that I am burning them in NTSC, because that is wat the manuals of my DVD players say they use. But just to be sure I tried PAL but it still didnt work. I tried making VCD 1.1, VCD 2, and SVCDs and nothing will work. I tried using plain Memorex, Memorex Black, Imation, and Verbatim CDs and nothing will work. Please help, I'm running out of CDs.

[tomycat34]

I had similar problems with my DVD player saying no disc. I had to find the right kind of CDRs for my player. I have a different DVD player so I am not sure the CDRs I used will work with yours. Any way the CDRs I used that worked for me are STI Digital Media - from Circuit City. All others I tried came up no disc when I placed them in the DVD player.

PS let me know if this helps

[bugster]

Try CDRW's too. They are the only media that would work in my Samsung 511!

Check you player(s) in the compatibility lists on this site

[kitty]

In the 5.5.8.2 (latest) version of Nero also make sure under the Misc tab that the cache files check boxes are clear.

[omgrade13]

Thanks for the responses. Im going to go to the store and try some different cdrs and cdrws. And did u mean in nero to make sure that the boxes were checked or unchecked? Thanks for the advice.

[kitty]

unchecked

[omgrade13]

I tried buying CDRWs (Memorax) and my one DVD player says its "playing" it (KLH) but there is no sound or audio on it, the timer just skips in 10 second intervals, in other words it will say "00:00:10"..."00:00:20"...etc. Still tired and confused.

[bugster]

Have you checked the DVD player compatibility list (DVD Players, left of page). Some DVD players only like certain brands/types of media and other owners may have already found out which ones!

[KingJohn]

I take it that your mpeg's are "Fully compliant"

Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

The type of CD-R is important, but from your list, you should have got one to work by now, what is the model number of your player, perhaps its listed somewhere.

[videoman882]

save yourself the aggravation buy the apex 1500 dvd player your problems will be solved trust me dont bother with cdrs and stuff the player runs about 90 bucks