HELP!!!

[tigre77ca]

Hi guys!

I need help. I have succesfully burnt a vcd with my iMac 600. It reads no problem in my computer but it did not read in a 350 Mhz Blue G3. It read perfectly in a G4. It also did not read in a 500 mhz PC. None of these computers has a DVD drive, only CDR drive. It is puzzling that all these computers that had problems reading the VCD did not have any problems at all when reading the mpeg file from whic i created the VCD

but it worked fine in faster laptops. These laptops did have DVD drives. IT did not play in the ibook with DVD drive. The dvd player did noto recognize the file.

What is the basic requirements that a computer needs to have in order to play a VCD?

In a stand alone DVD player it looked nice but sometimes it kinda skipped.

Now, how great is VCD supposed to look in a computer? It looks great when there is not much movement hapenning but if the camera is moving then it gets a bit blocky. Not quite so much in the Stand alone DVD player. I used Roxio to encode it.

Help will be greatly appreciated

[MaDmiZe]

To veiw a VCD in VCD format you should have a DVD drive...
But any Newer pc (those with cdrom drives capable of reading CDR or CDRW) should read the disc contents....
Also I can open the dat file from the disc in Windows MediaPlayer and watch it like a movie (dont know if all media player versions do this...but the newer ones do)
On my pc all mine look just like a regular movie (like its a tape)...
Also the blockiness increases with the reduction of bitrate during encoding.

[tigre77ca]

Hi maDman!

Thanks for the answer. Wouldn't reducing the bit rate reduce the quality of the image?

Thanks.

DAVID

[WizyWyg]

To veiw a VCD in VCD format you should have a DVD drive...
But any Newer pc (those with cdrom drives capable of reading CDR or CDRW) should read the disc contents....
Also I can open the dat file from the disc in Windows MediaPlayer and watch it like a movie (dont know if all media player versions do this...but the newer ones do)
On my pc all mine look just like a regular movie (like its a tape)...
Also the blockiness increases with the reduction of bitrate during encoding.

Uh , no . You only need a CDrom drive

SVCD's you need a DVD rom because of the MPEG2 encoding.
Please dont give out false info.