Capturing, Converting, Burning and Playing

[johnnyd_69u]

Hello ..... having a little trouble creating a VCD or SVCD to play in my (2 year old) Panasonic A120 DVD player.


I am capturing .avi video from my Sony DCR-TRV9 with a DVRaptor capture card. I am then running the .avi through TMPeg to create a supposedly VCD compliant .mpg file. I then burn the .mpg with Nero 5.5 onto a Office Depot brand CD-RW. Without fail, my DVD player says "NO PLAY" when i put the disc in.


What am I doing wrong? Am I using a bad CD-RW (office depot, wrong color, etc ....)? Is there a special setting I need to make in Nero or TMPeg? Should I be making SVCDs instead. Is there a certain level (vcd 1, or vcd2) of VCD that my DVD player can't handle?

Is there a way to capture with DVRaptor straight to VCD compliant .mpg instead of straight to .avi?
I also have Media Studio Pro 5 .... it comes with a capture utility, but will NOT work with my camcorder or capture card. Why is that?

I have also tried VirtualDub and WinVCR with no luck.


Any help would be much appreciated guys! Thanks,

John Richardson

[agzz]

you could try remuxiing with BBmpeg, it seams to fix things. Also you could try anouther RW brand, or rather a cd made at anouther factory..

[biggdogg]

MAKE SURE YOUR DVD PLAYER CAN PLAY BACK CDRW 2 YEARS OLD MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO...JUST A THOUGHT

[Barok]

have you tried playing the VCD's you made on other players ??? If not, try it and if it's OK, you're Panasonic DVD player doesn't support CDR/CDRW's ....

If you are using the VCD template of NERO to burn, it will warn you if the MPEG files are not VCD compliant... if you didn't get the warning before burning then u made a compliant VCD, which will play in almost all models of DVD/VCD players after 01 2000....

[dragracer]

I have a Panasonic A120. The only CDRW's that I have got to work are Memorexs and CompUSA. I can make and play a VCD without any problems. However, I have problems playing a SVCD. The player will recognize it but I either get video that works with no audio or I get extremely jerky playback. I've tried Ross's and Trevor's templates for TMPGEnc without any success.

I have a Canon Elura 2MC and I download the AVI through a cheap COMPUSA firewire card. I use TMPGEnc to do the conversion to SVCD.

Dragracer