Cannot Watch VCD on COMP after been burned

i burned a VCD in a bin/cue format with CdrWIn. then when i go to the drive it is labled CD and when open the drive it says that there is 440MB but yet there are no files. HOW the hell do i watch it on my Comp??????????

[dcowboy]

I am having the exact same problem. The VCD will play fine on a standalone dvd player but will not on any computer. I have tried several and they all show the cd volume name as "cd" and no files/directories. I have pulled up the cd in Nero/EZcd/NTI and the all show that there are two tracks and that the cd is a mode 2 cd. Anyone have any insight on this???

[mikegee]

i had the same problem. i was given many fixes, none of which worked. finally, someone here told me to try power dvd as my computer viewer. worked first time, everytime. that's all i got

[dcowboy]

I tried the PowerDVD player and I get a messsage "A disc with an unsupported format in drive E:" Any other suggestions.
More info:
These cds were copied using the EZ-CD Creator copy disk program. Is this the proper way to copy VCD's?

[gambit32]

Are there any folders on the VCD disc you burned when you open it? If so, look in the MPEGAV folder. You have to change the type of files you're looking for from the default of "all media files" to "all files" and then you'll see a dat file name something along these lines: avseq.dat
That's the file you want to play. Either right click on it and open w/media player or browse for it with media player. Hope this helps any if at all.

[dcowboy]

There are no folders/files in the disc I burned.

[Baldrick]

Have you checked this:
"In order to play VideoCD's on a PC (or even copy the dat files from a VideoCD in the CDROM drive to the PC's disk) you have to have the virtual device driver SCSI1HLP.VXD in Window's \SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS directory; otherwise, the file structure will not be recognized by Windows. My file was there but some program had changed it's extension. After renaming and rebooting, my VideoCD's now run without a hitch. Read more here."

[dcowboy]

I did checked for that file and it is there. I also renamed the Cdr4vsd.vxd as I read that this could have a conflict and it still did not read the CD's.

[timmy_boi]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=52286&forum=5&0

maybe its somthing else? try the link im jus suggesting..

[timmy_boi]

oh and maybe try leaving the label alone or labell it "vcd" instead of "cd"??

if not then there is a probelem with your burning process

[dcowboy]

Timmy_boi,
I already tried everything that was on that post. If you read the last reply to that post, that is the problem that person is having. Apparantly there is a problem with the burn process. The copy-cd program was used in the case of the VCD's that I have in my possesion. My frustration is that the VCD's DO play in a stand-alone DVD player. I even went out and bought a DVD-ROM, since I had sold the only computer that I owned that had one, and it still did not read the tracks on the CD. I have since copied another VCD with the same results. If drag the cd in the Recorder program to the CD layout it burned properly. But it still does not explain why my DVD can play them and not my computer. Thanks.