Hmm no dvd to play my vcd?

[sebastian]

Ok hello all! My first message here or rather question. I just burned my first VCD (YEA!)BUT I don't have a dvd player or dvd rom now I ran the dat file from my cd-rom with windows media player and it played. I really want to know if it probably will work on my friends dvd player(don't know make or model, but is maybe half a yr old)??
Also can I trick my 'puter into thinking I have a dvd-rom to testmy vcd (like virtual cd can trick 'puter into believing has a fake cd-rom)??I was wondering if a dvd player Program like win-dvd would work???? Help please

Sebastian ....

[Hollywood004738]

First, since you have a standard CD-Rom drive you CANNOT play DVD media-you can trick your computer some of the time but you can't trick your computer all the time

Second, I don't see the harm in burning a VCD and troddin' it to your friends house - since you don't know his model - what could it hurt?

[xzarkad]

I think that you do not understand the difference between a cd and dvd.

you have burned your VCd on a CD! Ergo: you can play the VCD in a CD-Rom drive.
A DVd is a totally other kind of medium. This can only be played in a DVD-Rom drive. They might look the same, but a bowling ball is not a football, although they are both round.

A standalone player plays DVD's, and sometimes a VCD. This depends if the standalone can read CD's in VCD format.

My question: Why do you want to trick a computer by letting it think you have a DVD-rom to test your VCD, when a VCD is only stored on a CD?

[Otomone]

You don't need to "fool" your computer into thinking you have a DVD-ROM since you have a VCD. You can get you computer to act like a VCD plyer though (instead of just playing the .dat file in media player) with a program. Check out the "tools" link over
<----- there. Several players are listed. I use STHDVD just because it's uncrippled freeware.

[ps6f]

It all depends on the model of the DVD player, not the age. Listen, go buy an Apex from K-Mart for cheap, or buy a higher end model. The main thing is looking for the specs that say that the player plays vcds and cdrs.