My Sony DVD/VCD Player says " no cd"

[mnemonic]

when ever i put my vcd that i made with ezcd creator 5 in my Sony dvd/vcd player it says "no cd" because the cd was burnt instead of the actual thing. is there a file or something that i can put on the cd that will trick the vcd player into playing it?
thanks,
mnemonic

[Tomppa]

What is your DVD player's model? And have you tried to play burned music CD's with your player? If player doesn't recognize music CD-Rs, then the player is not able to play most of CD-Rs.
I have Sony's DVPS-735D and it doesn't accept normal CD-R discs EXCEPT (at least) That's Write!'s 80min CD-R discs.
Also try RW discs. Those should be recognized by the player with no problem.
Check this site's DVD players compatibility list also!

[KuskenLars]

Another thing you can do is change the burning speed...
From what I've tried... Burning on higher speeds than 4x can affect compatibility...

[nusa]

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Also try RW discs. Those should be recognized by the player with no problem.
Check this site's DVD players compatibility list also!
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This may be a stupid question, but can you just use an unformatted CDRW disk instead of an empty CDR? I have Roxio and it didn't seem to like my unformatted CDRW when I went to burn my VCD. In fact, I couldn't eject the CDRW until I powered off my PC and got out a paper clip to manually eject it. Maybe it just wasn't sitting in the tray correctly, or maybe DirectCD was interfering with it. I haven't had a chance to retry it.

[Tomppa]

nusa:
Do not use any direct CD program (ie. roxio) to author your VCD/SVCD's. VCD's and SVCD's use special directory and file structure. I would suggest that you try NERO burning ROM (see tools section). It's shareware and it works 30 days; and there is VCD template which you can use. And when you select which MPEG to burn, program checks whether it is valid VCD/SVCD or not (correct video/audio bitrate, framerates etc.).
Before using it, make sure that roxio direct CD is turned off.
I haven't used ezcd creator 5 (whatever) but there should be similar template to use.

I hope this helps!