Why won't VideoCDs burned w/Roxio EZ CD Creator 5 play

[drdarke]

on most DVD players? They'll play on the Apex AD800 I have at my office, but not the Toshiba 2300 I have at home, or my friend's Toshiba 2200 (which will play VideoCDs - she's got a bunch she bought on eBay). Can anyone suggest a VideoCD software/hardware combination that'll work better than EZ CD Creator 5 and HP's CD-Writer 9500?

[tacosalad]

It's not the software--the Toshiba 2300 reportedly doesn't accept recorable media (like CD-R). Even if you record an ordinary audio disc onto CD-R, the Toshiba 2300 will reject it.

This is a limitation of many DVD players. DVD's require a laser with a narrower wavelength (650 nm or 635 nm) than an ordinary CD player (780 nm). The dyes used in CD-R discs aren't visible at the lower wavelength, so a DVD player can't read a CD-R unless it's equipped with a second laser.

[skeetervh]

Are your friend's e-bay video cd's burned or pressed? You can tell by looking at the disc. Is the color of the underside blue/green=cd-r or silver/gold=pressed? Also, does your toshiba have a dual-wave or dual-pickup system? If not, it probably won't play any cd-r's. An easy way to check is to see the compatability page on this site, or try playing a known-good cd-r audio disc. If the burned audio-cd works in the player that plays the e-bay video-cd's, the problem is with your burned video-cd. Check your MPeG file used to make the video-cd. It could be bad or you may have chosen an option in EZCD that caused a violation of the vcd standard.

[drdarke]

On 2001-07-27 12:51:07, skeetervh wrote:
>Are your friend's e-bay video cd's burned or pressed?<

They're burned b/c they came to her on a bunch of plain old CD-Rs - though I think they might have been gold disk rather than grey/green like mine have been....

>Also, does your toshiba have a dual-wave or dual-pickup system? If not, it probably won't play any cd-r's.<

I'm almost certain it's a single-wave system. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have gotten that one, but I like the Toshbia models as a rule, and I wanted one w/Nuon.

Thanks to you both for your help!

[jabrown398]

hay, i had the same prob burning a vcd with roxio 5.0, then i tryed to burn the same image with nero and it worked fine, it was the first time i tryed to use roxio to burn a vcd, i have not tryed sence, try nero.

[Ronnie777]

Check this website on VCD Info, page 3. The author does not recommend EZ CD Creator 5 for VideoCD, but does recommend Nero 5.5. I wasted multi-CDs on EZ, but Nero is beautiful; no problems playing on my Panasonic 31K.

[breygate]

I too had problems with EZ Creator. I could not even read the disk on the writer I burned them on!!!

Since using Nero 5.5 I have had no problems. I have found that by writing to CD-RW I can play the resultant VCD on my Sony 525 DVD Player while CDRs fail to register - NO DISC comes up on the display. Conversly the CDRs play on my parents VCD player but the CDRWs don't!!!

I think it all comes down the the laser system in the player and the type of media used. At least with CDRW you can overwrite if the movie gets a bit boring after watching it 20 times

Bernie