PLEASE need Possible reasons why...

[cycletron]

Need possible reasons that an mpeg will play fine on computer but not burned as a vcd. ANY good reasons would be appreciated!! Thanks!

[aldus4]

You didn't specify where you cannot play your VCD.

If you can't play your VCD on your PC afterwards, is most likely that you haven't taught your operating system that dat files (located in the MPEGAV directory) should be played as mpeg1 files.

If you can't play your VCD on your standalone DVD player it could be one of the following items:
- your DVD player does not play VCD's
- the media (CD-R/CD-RW) is not recognized by your player
- the burning process was faulty.

[cycletron]

You are absolutletly right. I did not give enough info. The MPEG file plays on the computer w/ windows media player fine. When The file has been converted w/ VCDimager and burned on a CDR it does play to an extent on an APEX 500W DVD player but has VERY bad problems. The video stops and the audio continues. This happens w/ several MPEGS after conversion and burning. The VCD's are burned in the 2.0 compliant version. Need Ideas on how to track down what is the problem. THANKS!!

[aldus4]

It sounds like your Video bitrate is too high. Which encoder did you use and what settings? Also what burning software are you using and what speed are you burning? Have you tried playing the dat file from the CD-R in Windows Media Player?

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[cycletron]

THANKS FOR THE HELP! I need to know how I can tell the bitrate of the MPEG. I am still somewhat of an amature at the VCD thing. I CAN NOT tell you how the mpeg was encoded the file was encode by someone else and given to me. Is there anyway I can figure out this bitrate w/ a program?? If SO what bitrate should the file typically be. Any more help?? You know more about this than me and I really appreciate the help! THX!

[aldus4]

The easiest way to gather the information is downloading a small program called mpegproperties, which you will find in the tools section of this website.

Start the software, choose open and choose your mpg file.
Then choose "Video01" and see which settings are given in
Video bitrate.

At the same time you might want to check your other settings such as frame rate, frame size,VBV Buffer etc.

[cycletron]

Thanks Much!

[KingJohn]

Hi

Will the "VCDimager" allow you to make a VCD that is not the correct standard ?

I use Easy Cd creator (Vcdcreator) and it will not let you import a mpeg file that is not set up correctly.

Thus I use TMPGEnc and its template to convert the movie to the exact specifications needed for a PAL VCD

Video-CD PAL (MPEG-1 352x288 25fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

or

Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

for NTSC

If any of those specifications are not right, then chances are the VCD wont play. As I said VCDcreator will warn you if any of the specifications are wrong. Since using TEMGEnc and its template, they are always right.

As mentioned before, the media used can often cause problems, but usually they simply don't work at all. So it sounds to me that your burning software is letting you make a non standard VCD !