ok, I need help. I'm so confused????!!!

[mamjazzer]

Ok. I posted earlier, but no replies. I will try again. I have purchased the Radeon 8500DV. I have everything running and have even captured video. Now what? I have read the newbie info and I'm confused. I really do not understand what I am reading part of the time. Can anyone point me in the right direction for my next step? I even burned by captured video to a CD-RW. But, it won't play in my DVD player. It comes on the screen of the DVD player that it is reading a VCD, but no video or audio is being read. Please Help me if you can.

[mickle]

Have you looked through the green HOW TO section on the left?

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[ungern]

Have you done anything to your material before burning it to CD-R?
My DVD player (Panasonic RV-32) didn't read some SVCDs, and VCD playback was jerky too, so I will return it today. It's a shame, because it was best in many tests.

Try using TMPGEnc with templates from KVCD which should work just fine, to make VCDs.

[Craig Tucker]

Try using TMPGEnc with templates from KVCD which should work just fine, to make VCDs.

If you want to maintain maximum compatability, use the templates that come with TMPGEnc.

Ok. I posted earlier, but no replies. I will try again. I have purchased the Radeon 8500DV. I have everything running and have even captured video. Now what? I have read the newbie info and I'm confused. I really do not understand what I am reading part of the time. Can anyone point me in the right direction for my next step? I even burned by captured video to a CD-RW. But, it won't play in my DVD player. It comes on the screen of the DVD player that it is reading a VCD, but no video or audio is being read. Please Help me if you can

What format are you capturing to ?

You have 2 options

1. capture directly to mpeg VCD format, then author and burn as VCD. This is the quicker option, but at the expense of quality.

2. capture to avi (I personally prefer to use virtualdub than ATI MMC) with huffyuv compression (good lossless compression codec) then encode to VCD compliant mpeg (using TMPGEnc). Then author and burn as VCD (you can use Nero for this).

If you have the disc space (avi with huffy compression will create large files, although these only need to be temporary they can be deleted after you encode) and dont mind waiting for TMPGEnc to do the encoding, then I would reccomend the second option, you can create very good looking VCD's using this method.