svcd will not play on player

[faithzzzz]

I am new in here,I hope this is the right section
I have a dvd player called koss
every time i conver a movie to vcd or svcd and burn it to my cd disk
and put it in my dvd player,it just sits there doing nothing,but when
I use other prgrams that burn it through there own burner engine
and play it on dvd player it works righy away.when I open the disk
that was burn with a program with there own burner has folders
called ext mpeg2 svcd folders,them works as long as there are
no menues in there,with menues it gets stucks in my dvd player too.
so do I need a spracial scvd codec in my computer because I burn
vcd or svcd? please someone help me,I want to start burning my
movies on cd disk and watch them on my tv.

p.s. I just want to convert videos to vcd or svcd and burn them with my burner
and play them on my dvd player...I hope someone can help me find
a good codec for me so it will play on cdr or cd-rw
bobby

[faithzzzz]

well 35 people looked at my post and no one can help me. mod
might as well close my post,I dont think anyone knows.

[Ai Haibara]

Give it time. This is a forum, and it can take a while for someone who might be able to guess what the problem may be to notice your post.

What program(s) are you using to create your S/VCDs? What CD media are you using? Perhaps the program you're using (without an internal burn engine?) isn't creating proper video CDs.

[guns1inger]

Some DVD players simply will not play SVCD, or will try but not play it well. SVCD support is not mandatory for DVD compliance. M first Pioneer would not play SVCDs at all, and would only play some out-of-spec DVDs made with SVCD material. It could be that your Koss is just very picky about what it plays.

[jman98]

faithzzzz - I can't speak for everyone, but you posted on a Saturday and I almost NEVER read anything in the forums on Saturdays and Sundays. I doubt I'm alone in that.

Look up your player on the link to the left that says "DVD Players". I took a quick look at Koss. There are over 30 listings and some models don't seem to support SVCD at all. You may have one of those models.

You might try a search on something called the "VCD header trick" which was a way to fool DVD players into playing SVCD if they played VCD by putting a VCD header on an SVCD disc.

Some DVD players don't support the format and others are very picky about it. Most newer players will support the format, but at one time in the USA a lot of player were sold that didn't play anything except DVD and audio CD because "no one will ever need to play anything else". Toshiba was infamous for making such players at one time, although that's not true now. If your player is older, that could be why it doesn't like it. It could also be your media as some players are very very picky about burnable media. Try burning an SVCD to CD-RW and see if it plays. It's a long story, but the reflectivity of CD-RW discs is closer to pressed discs than CD-R discs and just a little improvement in reflectivity is enough to make some players play the discs. Your original post is a little unclear, but you might also be having trouble with VCD too. If so, I'd guess that your player just doesn't support VCD or SVCD, but you can try burning to CD-RW and see if that helps. It would be good to know what you are using to make your SVCDs. Nero takes a lot of liberties with the format and some players may actually play SVCD but not like how Nero makes them. I'd recommend VCDEasy for authoring any VCD/SVCDs.

[faithzzzz]

I did use vcd easy and it makes it good,but will not play in my
koss,but it does work if I use a program like Ultra DVD Creator
or Ultra MPEG to DVD Burner,it converts it in cvd or scvd and it
burns it on the cd rw and it works great,,but I used to convert
the video to scvd or vcd and data burn it,and it does works some
times,not all the time,it works sometimes on cdr disk too..you
think I should get a newer dvd player that plays scvd easy?

[BJ_M]

you really didnt give to much info on what software you were using or methods to be able to formulate a reply