Sometimes i wonder if im better off just buying the dvd

[Johnny Football Hero]

Im not that great at making vcd's. Today was my first full length movie attempt. It all worked out good until i played it in my dvd player and the sound skipped every 30 secs and whenever the sound got loud. It didnt skip on my pc and i made sure to full process a wav file first. I think it may be that im using the panasonic encoder, since it always has had this problem. the quality was ok, but id just a soon buy the real thing than spend the time. nowdays dvds are getting below 20 bucks and most are 13 or so. I think for the quality and time saved its just more convinient to buy the real deal. I do think vcd's are awesome for making movies of nething else that i cant buy at best buy.

thanks for listening to me complain

[banjazzer]

Why not try your VCD on someone else's machine - at least you'll know then whether it was you or your player?

The more expensive the player the more problems with playing (S)VCD, it seems. 8)

[Mirror_Image]

Yep, I do VCDs of things I can't buy on DVD, i.e. some obscure old films like "The Informer" from 1935, Victor McLaglen won Best Actor for it - shown on TCM, or other programs I capture from cable TV ( I just did a VCD of a History Channel show), etc.

If I want the movie, I buy the DVD when it is available, because if it's worth watching more than once, it's worth the price of a DVD (and I like the nifty packaging and 100% compatibility in every single DVD player).

Take something like "Das Boot" Director's Cut, or "Patton" with a bonus soundtrack on its own DVD. Don't those deserve the video and audio quality of a retail DVD? I think so. A ripped DVD-R can match the quality, but not the compatibility, nor the nifty retail packaging.

[Johnny Football Hero]

it shouldnt be my dvd player. my snl celebrity jeopardy worked fine with no problems other than me not encoding a pal to ntsc (im a idiot for that one) I agree with mirror image, vcd's are great for tv shows, rare movies and downloaded porn, lol. im not really posting this as a question but more as just a point.