Why can't I make a menu that has more than 1 link???

[dumbstart]

Everytime I make a VCD with a menu page, it doesn't work if I have more than one video file. I use Nero (because Roxio won't make VCD's that work, and I keep getting errors from Ulead that my drive isn't ready) and I follow the instructions to a T, but yet, the VCD won't play if it has more than one movie file. I can make VCD's with menus that only have one video file, but what's the point??

Any help would be appreciated.

[snowmoon]

Use VCDEasy. Once you get used to it you will never go back.

[House de Kris]

Can you explain what doesn't work with the Nero created VCDs that have more than one video clip and a menu? Without knowing what you are experiencing, can't help.

BTW, the only reason I keep Roxio is because I prefer its menu stuff to Neros. But, VCDeasy really is the best answer here.

[dumbstart]

Some background info . . . .
I haven't been able to get EasyCD to create a VCD that will play on my DVD player yet, it just won't happen. I know the files for the VCD were generated properly, because I was able to make a working VCD under Nero, and I've read every guide here so it's not that I'm doing something I shouldn't be.

I use VirtualDub to extract the audio file, then use TMPGEnc to encode the original video and the extracted audio, encoding it for VCD (my dvd player doesn't support anything better). Under Nero, if I create a simple menu: 6 thumbnails (using only 2) choosing my scene from the movie for the thumbnail, enabling menu creation, choosing a background, step by step from the Newbie guide, I burn it, nothing, nada, my DVD says "no disc". I try again, this time, I make the menu, just like before, but I only use one video track, including one thumbnail, enable menu, so on and so forth, and ta-da, this one works. It starts up to the menu, and it has the one option for me to choose, and it plays fine.

I'm just wondering if it could possibly be the DVD player, or if something about Nero? I have my DVD player set for PCB so it shouldn't have anything to do with menus (and it does show menus that do work).

Any help at all would be appreciated, I've burned almost 30 coasters over the past 2 days, and I'm growing weary of this.

Thanks -

Michael

[House de Kris]

Well, that is totally strange. Best bet is to take one of these discs that give you the "no disc" message to your local electronics dealer and ask to play it on some machine known to play VCDs. I can't believe it would be your DVD player, but the same software can create a disc that works.

Good luck with this one.

[esmerelda1983]

if your dvd player supports them, try cd-rw disk. that way no more coasters

[Betamax]

Hi,

Whether you're using vcdeasy, vcdwizard or what ever kind of GUI upon VCDimager, be sure to let it generate cue/bin cd-images.
To be sure the cd-images are okay, you should use the debug-tool of vcdimager "VCDdebug".
VCDdebug will verify the bin-file to see whether it's okay.
If it is, then write it to cd (best first to cd-rw to prevent to loose cd's if your burner is broken).
If the resulting cd isn't okay, but vcddebug said the image _was_ okay, then you may be sure it's your burner which isn't okay..

cu.

[dumbstart]

Thanks for everyones help in this, I thought, "why shouldn't I use a CD-RW"?? So I did, to lessen the pile up of useless discs, and for some reason, it works. I couldn't figure it out, if I burn the same video on a CD-RW and a CD-R, it just won't work on the CD-R.

Now I have a problem with the last video track on the VCD's that I'm burning, it appears to have lots of crackles and noise, like a poorly streaming video. If I burn the video track on a CD-RW by itself, it plays fine, but if I have more than two (2) video tracks the third one seems to break up and is unwatchable.

Any suggestions?