Why can't i copy svcd CD to CD ?

[PashaM]

I burned SVCD movie from image and all works great, then i took this CD to a friend's house and he wanted to make a copy for himself, put blank CD in , put my SVCD CD in and tryed to do CD to CD direct burn and oops it didn't work, not enough space...weird. From image is enough space but from CD to CD not! Can someone explain how to copy that CD ? Thanks.

[kirpen]

Some drives have trouble reading svcds. Did you try doing all from the burner so it records to the hd before burning?

[dragonkeeper]

What software is he trying to burn with. Some of the free software is not good for burning SVCD because u can fit 800 MB of mpeg2 video data on a 700 meg cd. So it cause some confusion for some software. "ex. first release of EZCD6" i couldn't copy SVCD disk but i could author them properly try using Alcohol 120% to copy SVCD disk seems to work better fireburd and CDRWin are other choices.

[tompika]

I would rip it as Global Image file with RecordNow Max /DX and burn it as Image Job.

[PashaM]

Thanks slot, i'll try Alcohol next time... strange though that .mpg file is about 800 MB and it all fits to a 80 min CD

[hech54]

I've tons dozens of SVCD's with CloneCD. Create an image...burn the image...away you go. Remember....it's just DATA to a computer.