I am trying to make a short film from my photos. Using Nero i ahve managed to make a VCD but it will only play on my PC in fact ANY pc. But when I try it on my standalone DVD player it wont play (pioneer 515). I have managed to copy other VCDs and play them on the player but not my own.

Please help as I need to do this for xmas

Paul

-- Paul Lomas (paul@formula.co.uk), October 18, 1999

Answers

Hello Paul, In NERO under the New Compilation screen, did you "checkmark" Create Video CD V2.0 (CDI Player) Compliant CD. By checking it, the integrety of the mpeg file is checked before you begin to burn the disk. The above can be found under the VideoCD tab in NEW COMPILATIONS. If it is not checked it will assume that the Mpeg is compliant and copy it anyway.

ernie

-- Ernie Desir (edesir@mindspring.com), October 19, 1999.

Check out this site for more info on CD-R's and DVD's. Some cheaper CD-R media may not work. http://www.dvdresource.com/dvdfaq/dvdfaq.shtml#2.4.3

-- Paul Dalenberg (pdalenberg@hotmail.com), October 25, 1999.

I have the same problem with my Panasonic DVD-A350EB but, strangely it plays CD-RWs compiled in the same way. Try it, it might work with your Pioneer player. I also use Nero.

-- Mike Miller (klout@totalise.co.uk), April 30, 2000.

I am creating VCDs which play on a Pioneer DVD stand alone device perfectly, but when I tried them in other DVD devices , they weren´t able to play the VCDs at all. Can be that the regional settings on DVD players affects in any way the VCDs either?, Should I check the CD I options that you were mentioning before? Please, any help would be really welcome. Email me please. pd. I am using nero software. cheers

-- Federico Monsberger (fedemons@hotmail.com), December 07, 2000.

I got the same problem. the Nero-burnt VCD plays fine on the PC but in the standalone hitachi DVD it says 'NO Disc' !!!!

I have tried all the option's in nero to no avail. As for regions, i dont have a clue, no regional warning appears.

-- Bunce (cornucopic@yahoo.com), December 29, 2001.

I had the Same Problem But when I burn the same VCD on a re-writable I plays on my Stand alone DVD I have a sony dvp550D

-- Ajay Sharma (Ajay1371@hotmail.com), March 21, 2002.

We need to consider 2 things. First, the media. There are 3 kinds - (1) pressed CD (pre-recorded, silver coloured ones), (2) CDR, and (3) CDRW. Secondly, the format. There are many, but here we're only interested in (a) VCDs and (b) DVDs. From these, we can get 6 combinations - 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b.

Computer CDROM drives reads all media. VCD players (common here in Malaysia, though I suspect not in the US and Europe) reads pressed CDs and CDR. DVD players reads pressed CDs and CDRW. I only vaguely remember the reason, something technical about the characteristics of the discs and drives. Some newer DVD players have a second reading head that can read CDR.

-- daniel khoo (khoo@fotozzoom.com.my), March 27, 2002.

heyyyyyyyyyy oi got the same prob but i dont have dvd player i got vcd player i dont know i want to make vcd to play in it but i got no cd error inh my vcd player plssssssssssssssss hellpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

-- parag (the_elcid@hotmail.com), July 11, 2002.