newbie: cannot send cue sheet

[rich]

Ok, I've been working over a week trying to get this working. It took half that time for VCDEasy to recognize my drive, but now I'm getting:

"cannot send cue sheet"

I get the same error trying to burn the bin directly in FireBurner (CDRWin refuses to recognize I have a recordable drive).

So: I have a 1.4 Athlon machine, a CD-ROM drive on the secondary IDE master and a Pioneer 103 DVD-RW on the slave secondary IDE (I upgraded the firmware to the general 1.68 release).

I installed the 4.60 ASPI layer (research said that the 4.7 sucked big so I took it out and reinstalled 4.6), capture through a Radeon AIW (32M), and have successfully burned data CD's (the simple-stupid drag drop way).

I just want to get a VCD burned, then I'll start fine-tuning. Hopefully someone can get me there.

[Sefy]

Hopefully i'll be able to assist you, first, i suggest you get the Region Free firmware for your drive, i've seen it in a few places, step 2 would be to make sure you select Generic-Mmc in VCDEasy or TSCV and then try to use your DVDR to burn the media.

[rich]

I updated the firmware to the 1.68 region-free as one of the first things last week. I started out on generic-mmc, and ran through the other settings just for the fun of it.

I've got v1.0.8, settings for VCD 2.0, burn only, analyse MPEG, and perform compliance options checked. I'm making chapters every 5 minutes, CDRDAO integration is on, and I've tried both Bin/Cue and TOC image types.

I alos tried forced execution and upped the buffer to 128, speed set at max.

Let me know if I should change any other settings or fiddle with anything else that might help.

Thanks.

[Sefy]

It is a possibility that the cause of all this problem is the Pioneer 103, have you tried using CDRWin, FireBurner, BlindWriter ? or possibly Nero 5.578 ?

[rich]

Before I decided to post, I had tried Fireburner and received the same error (cannot send cuesheet). CDRWin, as I mentioned, doesn't even recognize that I have a recordable drive. It sees both drives in the 'readable' table, but nothing in the recordable drives tab in Setup.

Nero I haven't been able to get a clean download yet to install (either too many users or the server drops to a crawl).

Has anyone had success with a Pioneer 103? One other thing I was wondering is there an issue that the recordable drive is set as secondary IDE slave instead of secondary IDE master? (since my CD-ROM drive is faster, I use that for normal everyday stuff, so I prefer to keep it as master as opposed to the DVD-r/w)

As far as I can tell, the Pioneer 103 is a pretty popular drive, so I'm more inclined to think it's a configuration somewhere as opposed to the drive itself.

[Sefy]

The drive itself is very popular, the question is if people used it to burn CDR's using these methods, what I am curious about is if you can try re-doing the Cue/Bin files using TSCV for example and if that problem still happens ?

[NeWcS]

Did you open the .cue in like notepad to make sure it doesnt have a path in it that isnt there, Sometimes when you make a bin/cue it will map the bin to a folder. Like this:

FILE "c:/temp/NHL/kal-nhl.bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 MODE1/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 73:46:54
    INDEX 01 73:48:54
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 73:52:54
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 75:29:28

If thats the case then you need to delete the path and just leave the name of the BIN.

FILE "kal-nhl.bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 MODE1/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 73:46:54
    INDEX 01 73:48:54
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 73:52:54
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 75:29:28

Dont know if this is the kind of probalem but hope it helps.

[rich]

Yeah, I checked the cue text files and they look fine.. I have to wait until i get home to test out the other solution (using a different program to create the bin/cue).

Do you always have to create a bin/cue to create a VCD? Is there some other method?

[NeWcS]

You can always use NERO which doesnt need you to make a bin/cue. You could also try vcdimager or vcdimagerGUI.

[Sefy]

As was mentioned, you can use any VCD Authoring software to burn your CD however VCDImager as far as I know creates the most standard Video-CD of them all, but here are other programs that can Author a VCD:

Nero Burning-ROM v5.0 and v5.5
NTI CD Maker 2000 Professional v5
EZ CD Creator Deluxe and Platinum
CeQuadRat/Roxio's WinOnCD v3.8/5.0

I Hope this helps you out!

[rich]

Well, I upgraded to VCDEasy 1.0.9, reduced to slowest speed, and I now have a burned VCD after two coasters.

Thanks for all the help, pointers and so forth. Now I have to go solve my audio/video out of synch issues!