Newly created VCD won't play on DVD player!!! HELP!!

[edta1]

Hi,

I'm rather new ot the world of video editing and DVD ripping. Recently I ripped a movie and was trying to convert it so that it would play on my DVD player (Panasonic DVD-A100). I ripped the movie, converted it to MPEG-1 (extension is .mpg), split it and burnt one part onto a CD-RW cd. I have an old DVD player so I have to use CD-RWs so it would read burnt CDs. I've backed up a few of my VCDs this way and my DVD player reads it perfectly. The player would recognize and read the disk, but it would take forever to read. After 5 minutes of reading, I gave up and declared that there is a problem.

What am I doing wrong? It's .mpg that standalone DVD players read and play, right? I noticed that regular VCDs have movie files with .dat. If .mpg is what DVD players read, why can't I play my newly created VCD? Please help.

Thanks!!

EDTA

[Maui_Lover]

Hello,

I am not much more thaan a newbie myself but my guess would be that you did not burn them correctly. There is more to it than just putting Mpeg-1 files on a cd.

I would suggest downloading the demo of the Nero burning software. You tell it you are burning a VCD and drag the MPEG-1 file to the proper window and Nero does all the rest.

There are other things that could be wrong but the above would be my first guess