Creation of VCD using Toast 6?

[satman68]

I have a toshiba 220e DVD player and I have been trying to create VCD's, without any success although they do play on my mac with macVCD. I can also write DVD's with my DVD writer which play fine on the Toshiba, although this is an expensive option. The original movie files that I have downloaded are as 2 off SVCD's images, so I have to extract the mpegs and burn onto DVD, to at least watch something. VCD's, I have had no success even though other people can get them to work on their Toshiba 220e. Firstly if I could get the SVCD images onto 1 dvd that would be great, better still onto a VCD! I have tried various media's verbatim, emtec, blue colour, silver colour discs etc.

Could someone please help me, I have had the Toshiba for almost 12 months now, I wish I had purchased another make!

Satman68

[AntnyMD]

In Toast 6, you drag an MPEG or MOV file onto the Video window after selecting the VCD option. Whether or not your MPEG file is VCD compliant, Toast 6 will re-encode it for you and burn the disc. This makes compliant VCDs with Toast 6.

SVCD files/images cannot be burned onto a standard DVD in any way that makes them playable on televisions. You can burn this information as data, but then only your computer would read it.

The SVCD format cannot be burned onto DVD -- SVCD can only be burned onto compact disc.

MacVCD behaves strangely on my copy of Panther. I have separate partitions on my internal hard drive, for Panther, OS 9, and data. MacVCD treats my data partition as a VCD -- it will play videos if they're in a folder called Movies ... it plays my pictures because they're in a folder called Pictures. Weird.

Apparently your settop DVD player is very flexible so I would suggest you keep trying. Since you are using Toast 6, look at the Sticky atop this forum and follow the instructions EXACTLY.

Lastly, downloading movies you don't already own is piracy. Don't steal movies!

[satman68]

Thanks AntnyMD

I have tried the Toast 6 method you discribed. I can't find a tutoral for VCD with Toast 6. Can you help. Lastly, point taken about 'movies'.

[AntnyMD]

I apologize ... That Sticky is for burning DVDs.

[satman68]

Is there a step by step guide for VCD using toast or similar mac based software?

Thanks

Satman68

[BDMTHRFKR]

If your file is a disk image this is REALLY simple. Just mount the disk image and have toast copy it, believe it or not this actually works!

[satman68]

well, I don't now what to try next. I have given a created VCD to a friend that I created with the same processand the VCD works on his. This Toshiba is a pile of sh*t and I wished I had never purchased it. I wouldn't mind but it had all the best reviews and everyone seams to create their VCD on it except me!

Any help in desperation

Satman68

[chrishart1]

I had these kinds of troubles with SVCDS and VCDS as well. I was having no luck with burning VCD/SVCD images or files via Toast 5. It was only about 25% of the stuff that I downloaded which would play back on my VCD compatible Pioneer DVD player.

(This was all before Toast 6 existed.)

The Norcent DP-300 DVD player attracted my eye, because I had read that it was good at playing a variety of files that people threw at it. And when I saw that it was selling for $50 (or less), I decided it was worth trying. I haven't regretted the purchase.

What I do is burn multiple SVCD and VCD files onto an ISO9660/Mac hybrid DVD-R. The Norcent can read 9660 discs, and gives you a crude, but effective, folder/file navigation menu on the screen after it loads the disc in. I then just pick the file I want to watch and the player does its thing. Matter of fact it can handle 90% of what I throw at it.

(It does occasionally hiccup on high bitrate SVCDs. It will either get blocky in the video, the video stops (but the audio continues), or the A/V sync gets thrown off. But this is only once in a while. "Rewinding" about 30 seconds back usually clears these problems.)

[satman68]

Ok, thanks for that. I will try. Although I did phone Toshiba and they state it should play VCD's, so they have provided me with a replacement. Which appears to be slightly worse ie. I could play DVD+RW discs with the first player (which also didn't have the PBC menu) but not VCD. Now I can play VCD's (picture skips though) but not DVD+RW and some commerical DVD's!! They are collecting this one and replacing again. They state VCD's MAY work depending which software and DVD burner/ CD burner you have. They didn't tell me which equipment, software I should have though. Dam!

Satman68

[chrishart1]

Well, I'm not optimistic about that Toshiba doing what you want with a variety of VCDs. I think you're gonna have to buy a cheap player (like the Norcent), which is known to recognize 9660 discs, and a variety of VCD/SVCD files.

[satman68]

Well, I'm not sure what's going on, but I tried my VCD's and DVD+RW last night and they all curiously worked, the night before they didn't very strange. I hope I don't have an intermitent fault. I noticed though that the brand of CDRW and Verbatim CDR (blue colour underneath) did play well, it appears only silver coloured type play ok. It appeared that my previous player had no PBC menu in the setup, I gather this may be related to the fact that my VCD's didn't play. Anyway I'm happy now, with this replaced dvd player I can play VCD's for the first time in 12 months, after spending hours experimenting, what hope did I have in playing VCD's with a faulty player?!!. I hope this new player behaves, I have been given a month's warranty, let's hope if there are any new faults they make themselves know within this time limit.

Satman68

PS After sales service at Toshiba is excellent!!

[satman68]

Spoke to Toshiba last night to cancel collection. They mentioned to me that the player has now been given an extra 3 months warranty!