VCD plus and minus ofn toshiba 220e

[satman68]

I have spoken to toshiba this morning regarding VCD that I cannot play on my dvd player (movies from DV camera, encoded for VCD through Toast 6 and EasyDVD) Toshiba states that they movie files should be 'minus' in format, I have never heard of this for VCD only for DVD at that is for the media and not the file type.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Satman68

[Craig Tucker]

Sounds like the person from Toshiba did not know what they were talking about.

[lordsmurf]

Sure, minus format, of course, sounds great.

[satman68]

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

[RabidDog]

I had a Toshiba sd210 and it would play vcd no problem. I never tested it with "home burn" DVD discs tho. It also played svcd (slight sound lag). VCD burnt with vcdeasy. encoded with tmpgenc. tested out using phillips ricoh or verbatim cdrw or use infiniti cdr, these brands worked in my tosh. You got a replacement out of them? when I asked about svcd problem they were less than helpful.