I Can View VCD on my Standalone but not on My PC's

[bod]

Hi I really hope someone can help.

I have a very strange problem, I am very experienced in creating VCd's and they are nearly always OK for playing both in my standalone DVD player and on both my PC's

However Recently I borrowed a few VCD'sfrom a friend, after copying them using nero burning on the copy CD facility I found that these VCD's would play fine on my Stand alone DVD player, but they won't play on my 2 PC's via any program but specifically on Power DVD it says disc may be corrupt (I know this isn't the case)

I took these disks to my friends and he tried them on four different PC's and they worked fine on all his machines.

The only difference I can think that may provide an explanation is that His original disks were created on machines all running XP Pro whereas my two machines are running windows 2000 pro.

I have also found exactly the same thing on one one file VCD I downloaded from a newsgroup and burned from the Cue and Bin files. It has exactly the same symtoms as the VCD's I copied. (again it plays fine on my JVC standalone but not on my PC's)

I have a great deal of experince creating VCD's but this is absoulutely puzzling.

Anyone else experienced this problem or found a cure I'd be very grateful for your help.

Thanks

Ian

[dick_p_t]

open up "Windows Media Player" and choose FILE > OPEN.

Now go to where it says "Files of type:" and choose "All Files (*.*)"

no go in your VCD and then into the MPEGAV folder and select one of the files ending in .dat and click "OPEN"

it should work fine.

[PsyDonia]

I had the same prob with one of mine SVCD.
I have Power DVD installed.
When I have stared Power DVD and open the mpg file from the CD.
Power DVD Will say that the CD i corrupt.
But then I uninstlled Power DVD and install Win DVD then it work fine.
I think Power DVD has that Prob sometimes.