fastfarward on burned cds?

[duckie]

I've burned a couple of cds, and they work good. except that you can't fastfarward or rewind it. and since I can't really click forward (select different scenes) cauce there seems to be no real key frames in it.

anyone know what to do?

[Hardcoreruss]

What did you author with, you should be able to fast forward

[SLICK RICK]

Sounds like a dvd player issue, not a media issue.

SLICK RICK

[clanger]

This sounds like asimilar problem I had when burning VCD's (which is what I assume you've done)
I could fast forward, but it took an age (and it's a real pain to try to find a scene about an hour into a 1.5 hr movie......)
I couldn't jump to scenes or chapters as the movie didn't have them.

I solved it by using VCDEasy to create the disc image for burning.
Create you mpeg file using tmpgenc (or whatever you use), load this into VCDEasy, get that to create a number of chapters (however many you like, 10 or 12 is a good number I've found).
Then let it do it's stuff.

If that doesn't work, then I can only guess it's a player problem !

[ashsharma]

That's what I did, but then I found that when I skipped forward chapters the audio became completely out of sync, I mean minutes and minutes behind. Is there anyway around this?
Also, what effect does the playback control have on the disk's functionality?

[SimonH]

Sounds to me like it's a badly authored VCD. I have had this problem before with discs not authored by myself, and found extracting the mpeg from the VCD and re-authoring always solved the problem.

Both the extraction and re-authoring can be done with VCDEasy - and that's the tool I'd recommend you use.

[duckie]

I used it to make svcd, but I don't really know the difference between that andnormal vcd. better quality?
and i use the tmpgenc to decode.
oh well I guess I'll try VCD then, but will it be the same quality?

[SimonH]

No, it probably won't be better quality, it will probably be worse.

You didn't specify whether it was VCD or SVCD in your first post. If it's SVCD, i'd still take the same course of action, extract the MPEG and re-author the SVCD in VCDEasy.

It might not work, but it's the first thing I'd try. Do it on a re-writable as a test.