I cannot get my vcd's to play on a karaoke player with vcd capabilities

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I am creating a video/audio promo for establishments that have karaoke. It is approximately 2 minutes in length and needs to be able to play through their karaoke machines. Since the promo piece is so short, a DVD is not necessary nor do many karaoke machines have the capability to play a DVD as of yet. I understand a vcd is a mpeg 1 format but when I converted the file and then burned it onto a cd-r the karaoke machines would not recognize any video or audio on the file. What am I doing wrong?

I am taking the promo piece from Premiere and converting it to a mpeg 1 file. I take that file and use DVDit to then burn the vcd. Are their special disks I must get designed specifically for VCD's or is there a specific step I'm leaving out. I've also tried to burn an .avi file to the same sort of disk. Each of these will play back on my computer system but will not play on the karaoke machines... any suggestions would be appreciated...

jaki

-- jaki berry (jaki@pcisys.net), November 18, 2002

Answers

I'm looking for something similar to your problem. The only thing I can say right now, is that I have made VCDs test with different brands of CD (Verbatim, Samsung, Princo, etc.) and only Princo works in my Sony DVD player. I want to know why and how can I test a CD without actually burning it to finally see that it doesn't work!

-- Jerry (gafloreszurita@hotmail.com), November 18, 2002.

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