Burning VCD's Manually

[Miketv]

I have most burning software. I have recently purchased DVD
authoring software that does not support my CD-RW burner.
Does anybody know of a successful manual burning sequence
for making disks readable by DVD players ? I am getting a
NO-DISK message on my player. Please do not confuse this
with the media type. I am successfully creating VCDs with
no read problems. The process is sort of like taking a
known working VCD and copying the disk contents to your
hard drive. I am having problems getting from my hard drive
back to a CD.

[KingJohn]

Well a few people have looked at this and I think you need to tell us more.

You said you can make VCD's ok, and since you have purchased "DVD" authoring software I'm now thinking you have a DVD burner and want to make DVD disks not VCD ???

As for manual methods, I don't think there are any, the disks are multi track with data and video stream in different tracks, the authoring software takes care of this.

Need more input

[KingJohn]

Hi

I just read your topic subject again

So you copy the contents of a VCD onto your hard drive and you don't want to use any authoring software, but want to add those files back to a disk. When you say manually add them, I guess you mean with normal data cd writing software.

Ok the disks are multi track, for a single mpeg disk you would have track 0 containing the data and track 1 containing the mpeg stream. The disk needs to be a data mode 2 XA

If you burn a data disk with the first session containing the folders and files, and the second session containing the data stream that is not the same as making 2 tracks, but I don't know if that might work.

If you made a mixed mode cd, then this would correctly make those tracks, however I don't know any software that lets you make a mixed mode cd with a mpeg instead of a music file, so the only method I know is to use proper VCD creating software. I use easy cd creator with no problems.

But if you are already making VCD's with no problem why do you want to make them manually ? and why are there some not working ?

The important factors when making a successful VCD are

1, using a media the works on your DVD player.
2, making sure the mpeg movie is the exact specifications for a VCD (PAL/NTSC)
3, creating the disk layout exactly as it should be with the separate tracks.

Out of a batch of 50 cd's there may be some no good.

There are some programs around that let you create a VCD that is not the exact format, however you say you are already making disks that work, but some give a no read error ?

Still need more input