It´s driving me crazy!! (neither vcd nor svcd will work)

[Terratom]

Hi,

This is definitely driving me crazy!
I simply can´t get any self made vcd (or svcd) to work
and i can´t see the reason.

ìve tried thousands of different methods to encode
an .avi clip to a (s)vcd file.
even the standart template of TMPEG and Nero will not play
on my dvd player even though Nero tells me that it is a standart vcd-file (in properties) an does the burning without any problem.

When I download
and then burn it with nero as a vcd everything is fine.


What I tried is to simply make a copy of the this working vcd and only replace the .dat file in the MPEGAV folder
by my self-made vcd-file.

The funny thing is that my dvd-player (mustek v520)
now plays the .mpg movie perfectly fine in file-mode
(I have to manually pick it from the MPEGAV folder).

But when I try to burn this very same file as a standart
vcd, my dvd player doesn´t even recognize the cd
("no cd" - message)

The same goes for svcd´s and whichever image-file I tried.
So at least from what I can tell the mpg file itself seems to be ok (just as nero tells me).

Is there anything I forgot - any idea?
Thank you very much in advance!! (since i am close to throwing everything out of my window )

BTW: I am using WinXP and Nero 5.5.5.1

Bye,
Terratom

[Terratom]

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The funny thing is that my dvd-player (mustek v520)
now plays the .mpg movie perfectly fine in file-mode
(I have to manually pick it from the MPEGAV folder).

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I forgot to mention that the .dat file has to stay in there, too.
Otherwise the .mpg file will not be recognized by the dvd.player.

Cheers in advance!,

Terratom

[lee mu bai]

do you Finalize CD (close) before burning? have you tried a slower burn speed? how about different CDR media?

[Terratom]

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On 2001-12-10 03:29:35, lee mu bai wrote:
do you Finalize CD (close) before burning? have you tried a slower burn speed? how about different CDR media?
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Hi,

First - thx for your help.

Ok, i´ve tried finalizing but that won´t help.
Also I´ve tried different cdr(w)´s.
I´ve been testing mainly on cdrw´s.
But the puzzling thing is that like I mentioned
that I don´t have any problem with the already finished
vcd file that I have downloaded.

Whe I try my own file I use the exact same settings and media for burning but without any success.

I just don´t know where I can find the problem anymore.
Maybe it is just a tiny stupid thing - but I just cannot find it.

Bye,
Terratom

[thenewboy]

Terratom,

Hi, please excuse my english but what seems to be your problem? On your post you mention that you download and burn it as a vcd which everything went ok! But you also mention that you wanted to replace a .dat file? What are you trying to do? Can you simpify your goal and your problem? Thanks, Jordan

[Terratom]

Hi,

Thank you for helping!
I think I´ve found the problem.
Actually, there were two:

First of all I have found out (after literally billions of tries) that the (s)vcd samples that I have made were simply
too short!

My DVD player just won´t play any .mpg files that are
shorter than 2 minutes (Ever heard of such a problem?)
(I usually make samples of 1 min length to check the quality before I encode the whole film).

After I had extended the length of the sample to at least
2-3 minutes, the dvd player at least recognized the cd but still refused to play the file.

So I decided to leave Nero alone and switch to VCDImage
and Fireburner to burn the Image onto the Cd and everything works fine now (at least at the moment!).

BTW: I couldn´t get CDRDAO to work under XP with a Ricoh
7200 - any idea?

Hope I finally solved the problem.
Again thanx for the help!

Bye,
Chris