Home burned VCD's working but why all the squares?

[LexLuthor]

Hey all,

Well I got a home burned VCD working in my Toshiba 2109Y DVD, I used a brand called Princo and it now recognises and plays my VCD's, however.........

It is really crappy, it doesn't play correctly and has many large pixels and stuff on the screen. The music doesn't sound bad except when interupted a video glitch.

Do I need to increase the bitrate when I convert to an MPEG file, te video is currently @ 1150 and the audio @224

Any help would be much appreciated.
Steve

[abularkin]

You probably want to try SVCD, the format is more flexible. Second, with any encoder encoding for VCD, (I use TMPEGENC) the blocks are going to be there. It's a result of the encoder trying to give the most approximate image per frame of the color depth. You might try highest quality (on TMPEGENC). Try lowering the audio bitrate. Also, it would help those reading the forum if you would specify the video problems. "[I]t doesn't play properly" isn't going to explain anything to anyone.

[LexLuthor]

Sorry about that I'll be a little more specific. Hopefully this will be better.

The main problem is the video, 3/4 of the screen is unviewable with large moving blocks and coloured static.

It tends to pause and not really play past the first few seconds before returning to the start and pausing.

If I increase the bitrate (at the moment it is @ 1150) will that help or does it depend on the frame rate of the original source?

The audio sounds cool, BTW What is the lowest audio bitrate allowed on a VCD?

Many thanks
Steve

[caish5]

Large coloured blocks sounds like the DVD player can only JUST read the CDR. Mine will do that on a bad disc. If it plays ok on your computer try burning to a CDRW its just too much trouble trying to get some dvd players to read CDRS but RW's almost always work in my experience.

[LeveL_42]

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Large coloured blocks sounds like the DVD player can only JUST read the CDR. Mine will do that on a bad disc. If it plays ok on your computer try burning to a CDRW its just too much trouble trying to get some dvd players to read CDRS but RW's almost always work in my experience.
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Yes, must be CD-R. I own a Toshiba SD-100 and it won't read any CD-R's i've tried so far (although I heared some other people did have success with CD-R). I switched to CD-RW and they play fine. SVCS will probably not work on the Toshiba, at least it doesn't on mine. XVCD however play fine.

[fireman71]

I have the same problem with a toshiba 3109, it wont read most cd-r and gives the unviewable 3/4 screen with good audio with cd-rw. I assume it is media problems, What media should I use?

[ktnwin]

It's definitely the media compatibility issue. Toshiba does not read well CD-R and CD-RW disc.
Check feedback on Toshiba DVD players by clicking on DVD Players on the left column.

[pocholin]

I use Prime Peripherals 80 mins, you can get them at Oficemax, I've used others but my panasonic DVD player doesn't like most other.

Alfonso

[thxkid]

FOR TOSHIBA OWNERS!!

I found CD-R's that will read in my toshiba 2050, I have been using Fry's Brand of CD-R's GQ, the older ones 2x-8x 80min., they are using the meduim blue-silver dye that looks just like a CD-RW when you hold them up together from the back side, also I know some of the 8x or 12x Sony's will also. I have tried every other brand I can get my hands on and none have worked except for these.
Watch out on the GQ's I bought a 10 pack recently and it was using the dark blue dye which would not read in my toshiba, I have a APEX 660 and I can tell right now my toshiba lloks SOOOOOOOOOOO much better playing VCD's over the APEX, plus the slip sync problem with AVI's from the net I have with the APEX, the toshiba plays perfect.

[naheedv]

hey there i have a toshiba sd2700 and i havent been able to get and vcds to work. What kind of cds are you people using?