Testing vcds before you burn

[uhhohh]

Is there anyway to test vcds before you burn them? Maybe a program that will show exactly what will show up on your tv screen when you play the vcd. Most of the vcds i burn work on my computer, but when I burn them and try to play them with the dvd player something is messed up. Usually the size or the sound. Out of six attempts only one vcd works perfectly. I got that one working by letting nero do some converison stuff before it burned, but that took along time and it only worked for one of the video files.

[vitualis]

If things are designed right, they shouldn't stuff up...

How are you creating your MPEGs in the first place? Which encoder? What settings?

It sounds like your MPEGs aren't VCD compliant and your hardware player can't handle it.

Regards.

[uhhohh]

I used tmpgenc to go from divx to mpg. Then i used nero to burn. Nero says something like they are not vcd format and that nero needs to convert them but when I let it do the conversion it will run for awhile then stop when it gets an error, only the britney spears video i used to test worked. The other files I just burn witout doing the conversion. They still work but the size is messed up. It doesnt use the full tv screen, the videos take up about 1/4 the screen and are in the upper left corner of the screen. One of the videos is missing sound.

[Feslmogh]

The best way I do it is to first burm it onto a CD-RW and test it on your player (If your player will read RW's) or on your computer (like WinDVD). If it runs great then copy it permantly onto a CD-R and erace the RW for another time.

[vitualis]

uhhohh,

Did you load the correct template in TMPGEnc?

Regards.

[wcb4]

If you are using nero 5.0, go to ahead's web site and download the demo to 5.5, which will actually upgrade a full 5.0 to the full 5.5. This comes with a driver that will let you mount image files as a virtual cd. Then you can use nero to first make an image, mountit and try it with one of the comptuer vcd players to see if it works right. If it does, use the same iamge file to make a real cd, if not, you have only wasted a few minutes, and no cd...

[ya_jai]

From my experiences, sometimes (S)VCDs those play in computer look different when play on TV, such as blockiness, speedup slowdown and even out of sync. So The best way, from my thought, is to rip the same exact setting that you're gonna rip for about 10 minutes (speedup-slowdown on TV effect after 7-10 mins). Then burn this 10 mins to your CDRW and test if you like the result.