DVD Player is having trouble playing VCDs

[LeonZ]

I just burned a few different VCDs with Nero 5.5, put it into my Panasonic PV-D4761 DVD-VCR combo, and it absolutely can't play the vcd - keeps skipping, interrupting audio and video. Some tracks wont even play at all, some play fine, some just skip all the time. I burned the same vcd with InstantDVD/CD - same thing. Then I tried burning this vcd qith different options in Nero - close/open cd. That didnt help. I even tried reencoding the movie in tmpgenc - no luck. I tried same procedures with other movies, but that didnt help. Anyone had a similar problem?

[cycletron]

Just an idea to narrow the problem down. Try playing your created VCD disk w/ a Computer Software VCD player. Example 'MYflix' or similar. If it also plays crappy from that it is most likely a bad burn on the CD. Good luck.

[P@iNKilleR]

Here is the easy solution...... does your dvd player play origional vcd's????? if yes it may not like your brand of cdr or not like cdr at all. U should not be having probs with nero at all as this is the version i use. To narrow everything down does the vcd play on your pc.. If the answer is yes just face the facts that the dvd does not play them.


Kev!

[LeonZ]

I played the vcds on the computer, and they play fine. May be my dvd player doesnt like this cdr? I know it plays cdrs because i played an audio cdr on it. Anyway, i used TDK 74 min. CDRs. May be I shouls try something different. Is there a particular brand i should try?

[Infectious]

I'm dealing with same issue. My DVD plays original VCDs but not burned ones. I don't know what to do. It's a Sony DVP-9000ES

[kipperfoot]

Try using a CDRW, sometimes works with Sony's

[mpack]

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On 2001-11-19 17:43:24, Infectious wrote:
I'm dealing with same issue. My DVD plays original VCDs but not burned ones. I don't know what to do. It's a Sony DVP-9000ES
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Search the web for "Vivastar" brand CD-Rs: they sell for about the same price as other CD-Rs (ie. much cheaper than CD-RW), but *work* in Sony DVD players.

There are other CD-R brands known to work, eg. Princo, but Princo have a reputation for poor quality plus a suggestion that they sometimes vary the dye - I have no personal experience of Princo's so I can't confirm either rumour, I do have personal experience of Vivastar, and that experience is that, so far, 100% of burns have been accepted by the Sony.

[P@iNKilleR]

hold on one second... I used to own an alba DVD 103 & it refused to play any vcd's or music cd's on tdk's,verbatim & philips disks.. I eventually found disks that would play for definate.. so U may have found ya own problem & solved it.

vivistar
samsung
kodak
lead data
and basically and disk made by ritek