Dvd Players-vcd No Go's

[Themickster]

I got a program which is basicly a dvd ripper, which i can then burn on to cd's as vcd's to be played back on compatible dvd players which can play vcd's. right , got that? well i have tried a few times and although the 'rip' is succesfull and i can burn them and view them via my cd-rom, when i try and play them on my vcd compatible dvd player, it comes up as error, please insert disk, or some other nonsense. what am i doing wrong???

[RJ]

What program is it ? It probably makes bad VCDs. Do you use the program to transcode and burn or do you burn with another program and if so which program do you use and how do you burn ?

RJ

[Themickster]

I'VE USED NERO,5.9 OR WHATEVER IT IS, I HAVE USED THE ONE WHICH COMES WITH REAL PLAYER AND ALSO WINDOWS MEDIA.
IS THERE SOME SPECIFIC FILE TYPE I SHOULD BE BURNING: IE MPEG2 OR SOMETHING?

[aka_nelly]

go to clonecd forums to get help with this and any other related subject....they have good sticky guides.
:-)

[RJ]

Well, and have you used the VCD option ?

A good program is VCDeasy (http://www.vcdeasy.org) it burns correct VCDs.

The source stream has to be MPEG-1 352x240@29.97 for NTSC (MPEG-1 352x288@25 for PAL).

RJ

[Themickster]

I'm giving it a go right now, its worth a try.Cheers. Will let you know tommorrow how i get on.

[Themickster]

I have tried vcd easy and i get the same results! DVD player says 'no disc', i have tried TMPG encoder as well! What am i doing wrong???

[RJ]

Hmm. But the Stream is VCD compliant, right ? I mean, it's MPEG-1 352x288@25fps for PAL or 352x240@29.97fps for NTSC.
Maybe it's a PAL/NTSC issue. What have you burned ? PAL or NTSC ? PAL should work for you.

RJ