Problems Playing VCD

[Richard B. Riddick]

A friend and I recently started burning VCDs to
play on our standalone DVD players. All of them workeded
fine, but one we recently burned did not work on my
DVD player (Philips 710). It played fine for exactly ten seconds,
then locked up. I tried the second disc, it did exactly
the same thing. But it played fine in Windows Media Player.
All the VCD's we've burned were in .mpg
format and were done using Nero. Any ideas???
Is this a problem with encoding or just a bad reaction to my
DVD player? I'd really appreciate any help you can give.

[aldus4]

Perhaps your friend used different CD-R's. Not all standalone DVD Players will play different colour layered CD-R(W)'s. Check with your firend what he did differently this time. As the VCD played fine via your PC, it's probably more a media problem than anything else.

[Richard B. Riddick]

He used exactly the same discs for all VCDs.
I was will him when he burned all of them and he used exactly the same
procedure and discs.
They're Verbatim CD-R and worked fine on all other VCDs
I played in the machine.

[aldus4]

Another possibility is that the disk has a burn error. I have often experienced that something will work on my pc but not in the DVD Player. DVD Players are more sensitive than standard PC-Drives. Burn this "faulty" disk again with a lower speed - and DON'T multitask.

[Richard B. Riddick]

He only ever uses Verbatin CD-R.
These have worked fine on all other VCDs.
He used exactly the same procedure, too.
I was with him when he burned all of them.

[Richard B. Riddick]

Sorry about the double-post.

I had him burn another copy when the first one froze up.
It had the same results. I asked him not to multi-task this time round, too,
as I thought this may have been the problem.

Would Nero have said something if it was a burn error?


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[aldus4]

Very strange. Have you taken his original and put it in your DVD player?

[Richard B. Riddick]

It wasn't a copy of an original disc.
It was an .mpg file burned straight to a disc
I had the first copy he made.
It had the same problem.

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[aldus4]

Ahhhhhh...now we have more options. (by the way regarding your previous question: These strange burn errors that occure Nero doesn't notice for some odd reason. I have even burn proof, so basically it should happen. - But as always there is theory and practice.)

You could download and install the mpegcorrecter and have it check the file. I honestly have no idea what this program does, but it works (sometimes). By the way, rename the file to something different.

Another thing that has worked for me (before re-encoding the whole movie again) is opening mpeg tools in TMPGEnc and going to the cut/merge tab. Choose your VCD setting and let the whole file go through. (Your not effectively cutting or joining, but writing a new TMPGEnc controlled file).

After doing this burn away. You should try using a CD-RW until you find out what the problem is.

[Richard B. Riddick]

Thanks for all your help, I'll try all ideas.