How do you get VCDeasy to work on Windows 7 Ultimate (32bit) ?

[DragonLord721]

It seems that VCDeasy will not work on Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit .. I get an error telling me that my Windows Media Player in not installed but it is fully installed (version 12) and I can't even uninstall it because I guess it's built in to the system and I can't find any way around it.

Does anyone know what to do here ..Please ?

Thank You .. DragonLord721@hotmail.com

[Ai Haibara]

Apparently, it just doesn't work on anything higher than XP. With Vista, it throws the same error (see this post, for example). Even changing compatibility settings doesn't seem to help.

I couldn't tell you if it worked under Win7's "XP Mode", either, unfortunately.

[sambat]

TmpGenc Wizard has templates to make the VCD, MPEG1 video (use 2pass method to fit a particular size disk) and VcdImagerGui to create a bin/cue file.

[marioval]

You can do what I do. Install XP in a virtual machine using VirtualBox and install VCDEasy in the VM.

[RabidDog]

WHy not just jewel boot? (Dual-Boot), drag out your old copy of win/xp and download BCDEASY , install both, then every time you boot you will have the option of going into either xp or Seven, everything will work a lot faster when run natively in XP and we all know encoding can be a very long task, especially on a lower specced machine like yours. Dix/xvid will get much better quality for the same file-size as VCD or SVCD, and many devices (phones, consoles dvd players TV's media streamers) can play it back (quite often referred to as mpeg4)

[jman98]

DragonLord721 - Thanks for posting this as I am planning on doing a Windows 7 installation at home in a few weeks and it's good to know this. I do occasionally use VCDEasy so this is good to know. If you paid for it and aren't just using the free version I suppose you could ask the author at support@vcdeasy.org if he is willing to build it to run under Vista and Windows 7. He hasn't made any updates in about 2 years I think but you could always ask.

Assuming the author doesn't help, virtualization would seem to be your best bet. In addition to VirtualBox both Windows 7 itself and VMWare offer free virtualization options. We use VMWare at work so I have some experience with that. VMWare Player is free and could do the job.

[jagabo]

Since you have Win7 Ultimate try using XP Mode -- Windows XP in a virtual machine.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx

That works for most programs that don't have specific hardware requirements. As others have pointed out, you can also use other VMs like VirtualBox or VMWare. But XP Mode includes an XP license and virtual install disc. With the others you'll have to come up with XP yourself.

[marioval]

WHy not just jewel boot? (Dual-Boot), drag out your old copy of win/xp and download BCDEASY , install both, then every time you boot you will have the option of going into either xp or Seven, everything will work a lot faster when run natively in XP and we all know encoding can be a very long task, especially on a lower specced machine like yours. Dix/xvid will get much better quality for the same file-size as VCD or SVCD, and many devices (phones, consoles dvd players TV's media streamers) can play it back (quite often referred to as mpeg4)

VCDEasy doesn't do any encoding, at least I have never used it for that. I make my assets (S)VCD Compliant with Xmedia Recode or AVS Video Converter then I use VCDEasy to author the (S)VCD Disk. Thats why running it in a VM is no problem for me.

[AlanHK]

There are several other VCD authoring apps listed here.
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/authoring-svcd-vcd
Also VCDGear.
No idea if they work under Win7, but worth a try.

[marioval]

Another thought here, if you don't need menus or anything else besides the movie you can take you (S)VCD compliant MPG (or convert your video to an (S)VCD compliant MPG with any of the all in one converters) then just burn it with Ashampoo Burning Studio Free. In fact just by coincidence the screenshot for Ashampoo Burning Studio Free on this site shows you exactly where to go to burn a (S)VCD.

[DragonLord721]

WOW,

First, please let me start by saying. This site has had the BEST replies to ANY site I have ever posted in and the responces were spot on and not some butt head saying ... "try searching better before posting" .. GREAT PLACE

To "sambat" your reply was exactly what I needed and works PERFECT on Windows 7 Ultimate .. I had the TMPGenc already but no-one ever said how to then convert the (mpeg1) file to the (bin/cue) that I needed.. The VCDImagerGUI is PERFECT

Thank You ALL