Studio 7 and VCD Problems

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Okay, Here is my situation. I am currently running a Studio DC10+ with Studio 7 on a Windows XP Machine. I captured some video, edited it in Studio 7, and used the Make MPEG option. In the advaced options feature, I looked at what the VCD Settings were, and lowered the video bitrate a little, from 1500 kb/sec to 1000 kb/sec. That made the file size perfect to put on my 80 min. CD's. I watched the full video on Winamp 3, Media Player 9, and RealOne Player, all worked perfect.

Using Roxio EZ-CD Creator 5 Platinum's VCD Creator, I used the wizard to add my video to a Single play VCD, where it would play the one file, and then end, no menu's or anything fancy. Just start and stop.

Here is where my problems begin. After creating the VCD, I would start playing them on my Apex AD1100-W DVD player, and my parents Emerson DVD player, and this is what I would get:

First CD: Absolutely nothing, no playback of video, audio, or even menu.

Second CD: Started playing video and audio, and restarted after 2 minutes into movie. Won't go past the same point in the movie.

Third CD: Started playing video and audio again, restarted after about 4 minutes into movie, and again won't go past that point.

Here is where I started thinking, well maybe it is my CD's. I got one of my mothers 80 min CDs, and same problem, only restarting after a different point than the other two working CD's.

Curious I took the CD's and put them into my PC's CD Player. Opend the MPEG Folder, and opened the DAT file in Media Player 9. The whole movie, perfect. So the whole files are on every CD, just will not play past a certain point. What is going wrong? Is it that I put the bitrate lower? Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone used Studio 7 to make MPEGs?

Thanks for your help in advance.

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Have you played VCD's before on those DVD players?

Try using Nero to burn the VCD.

I have the Pinaccle Studio Deluxe capture card and use Studio7. But I just use Studio7 to make the .avi and then use TMPEGnc to make the VCD complaint mpeg, then use Nero to burn as a VCD on a cd and it works great on my Apex 660