VCD Created by Nero5.5 Doesn't play.

[IVIaxim]

This is my first VideoCD i've ever created. It's a backup of 45 min anime VHS. And it successfully captured (YUY2 HuffYUV Full Frame) into 3 2gig files. When I created the VideoCD with Nero is encoded the movie itself. Has anyone done this before?? Will the outcome be better if I did it manually?? Anyway, when I tried to play it in my standalone DVD Player (Sanyo). It wouldn't play it. It reconized it, and gave me an "error" of "No Play." So I tested it in my computer and with my Creative VCD player it played just fine. Anyone have a Sanyo that doesn't like CDRs??

Added:

I just tried it in my friends standalone Sony, and it gives error "No Disc." I am baffled.

[elfredo]

Hey IVIaxim,

have you allready checked

http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php

They listed more than 700 standalone-players about their compatibility.

Friedrich

[Brian Ellis]

VCD play on DVD playback devices is HAIRY! Even on the best, it also depends on the medium you have used for burning it. It may work with one make of CD-R disk and not with any other and, of course, a different one may prefer another make. I've had a similar experience. I went to a friendly TV shop and tried a home-brewed CD-R (on two media) in 6 or 7 makes of DVD players. It worked on one only with just one medium and not the other.

IMHO, CD-R VCDs are simply unsuitable for consumer DVD players, if you wish to distribute them. If you wish to find a combination of player and medium that works for you alone, fair enough (at least, until the CD-R maker changes his coating formulation).

[wkulecz]

Try burning it on CD-RW media. The RW media is a better match for the lasers in DVD players.

I don't advise CD-RW media for any other purpose -- too unreliable for data if you use packet writing, if you write ISO the erase time is bothersome given <$0.20 CD-R media costs, so its potential reuseability makes little economic sense.

--wally.

[dZeus]

If you want to play back (s)vcds on cdr(w), make sure that you get a standalone player with dual laser pickup. Those can read almost all types of CDR/CDRWs.

http://www.vcdhelp.com has a nice list of content support on standalone players, as elfredo linked already

[dchip]

I too have had better luck with VCD/SVCD playback on standalone when burned on CD-RW. Memorex High Speed or Platinum ones work quite well. I use Nero 5.5 and playback is on Pioneer DV-333.

[kleinbull]

just curious

How long did the conversion take with Nero5.5?

[IVIaxim]

About 2 hours. (45 Minute Movie)

[Flying dutchman]

It takes only 2 minutes to erase a CDRW using Nero. I use them all the time now.

I am using a program calle VCDIMAGER in combination with a GUI called "TSCV" to make my SVCD's. This freeware combo is immensely more powerful than Nero for making VCD's and SVCD's, because it allows hierarchical menus, moving menus, chapters in mpgs, still images, audio files, auto-play, loops, random jumps etc. etc.

In fact, you can make your SVCD's very much "DVD-Like".

The learning curve is quite steep, though. I made a dozen coasters before the first "perfect" SVCD, so I finally decided to go out and buy a box of CDRW's....