VCD playes like audio (?) on stand-alone player

[melissakos]

Hello,

I was given CDs with video from my brother-in-law's wedding. I am supposed to copy it and forward it to relatives. The disks come from India and appear to be VCDs. I load them on the pc, open the drive icon and open roxio's vcd_play to watch them, which works just fine.
Then, I put them on my stand-alone player, a Samsung DVD P-244, which has been tested with other VCDs I brought from India (commercial ones; Nemo, Garfield etc). The disk, insteead of playing as video, does not produce any image but I can hear from the speakers the 'modem' or 'data' sounds as if the player is trying to play the disk as audio.

Unfortunately I am lacking basic knowledge on video and its formats. I want to copy these disks so that they can play on PCs (which I already did, copied them as data images), but I would like to also create copies that play on standalone players. Any help ??? I don't understand why I cannot see them on my player, either, both previous experience and the 'players' section here show the device supporting DVD.

Thanks in advance
Kostas

[Cornucopia]

Open the disc in ISOBuster and give us a summary list of what it shows you. If it's a true VCD it should have many (if not all) of the same info as is shown on the [<-- What is VCD?] page.

Once we know more, we can help from there.

Scott

[melissakos]

Hi.

In Isobuster I see the following structure:

CD
-Session1
--Track01
---iso New
--->>> New

and under this

CDI

EXT
PSD_X.VCD
LOT_X.VCD

MPEGAV
AVSEQ01.DAT

SEGMENT

VCD
INFO.VCD
ENTRIES.VCD
PSD.VCD
LOT.VCD

and the file vcd_play.exe on root.

Don't know if I am missing something.

Thanks
Kostas

[melissakos]

Help anyone???

[Baldrick]

you could try extract the video,
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=95#95
and autor a new vcd with vcdeasy.

or how did you copy the vcd? you cannot just copy the files, you must do a full disc copy so you keep the vcd mode.

[melissakos]

you could try extract the video,
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=95#95
and autor a new vcd with vcdeasy.

or how did you copy the vcd? you cannot just copy the files, you must do a full disc copy so you keep the vcd mode.

I will try what you propose, but won't this procedure further degrade the quality?

I didn't copy the files, I indeed did a disk copy, but could it be that the original that I have in my hands is actually a 'files' and not a 'disk' copy, so that's the reason it does not work on the dvd player ?

Thanks
Kostas

[mats.hogberg]

No, it won't degrade video or audio quality. You just take the video and "repackage" it again as VCD.

/Mats

[vcd4ever]

but could it be that the original that I have in my hands is actually a 'files' and not a 'disk' copy

Yes, it's possible because the VCD structure that you posted from ISOBuster only shows 1 track.

vcd4ever.