"Dick Balaska" <dik### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote in message
news:3DDB24A9.57B49313@buckosoft.com...
>
> I wonder if anyone here has made a VCD.  I can't get mine to work.
> I've tried two programs InstantVideo and VCDEasy to burn the disks.
> I've tried VCD1.0 VCD1.1 and VCD2 (so, six coasters).
> I have two consumer decks; a 3 year old Sony DVP-S550D with a sticker that
> sez VideoCD on it.  The APEX's manual sez it supports VCD 1.1 and VCD 2.
>
> In any event, when i put a disc in either unit, i hear some disc scraping
> noises and then the useful message "No disc".
>
> The discs all read fine on my PC.  The file structure looks ok and i can
> play the AABCABDA.MPG  file that lives on the disc in Media Player (tm).

I've done it, just not much at all. Sounds like you might be using too high
a resolution.

Does your player do PBC (playback control)? Might need that either off or on
if so. I had a Sanyo that did okay with my first VCD tries, then sold it and
got a much cheaper Apex 1100 that can read Jpeg in slideshows as well as
play VCD (from Mpeg1 anyway). I just haven't tried Mpeg2 with sound yet.
Program I have used for it is TmpgEnc, but been almost a year since I have
done anything.

A problem I encountered once was when creating Mpeg1 files from collections
of Jpeg's for a VCD. It would freeze one some of the images. These were
about eight different Mpeg's on one CD. I couldn't find a reason for the
trouble so I chalked it up to faulty player or CD creation process, was
always the same exact places that froze the picture though. I began to
wonder if I had some slightly errored Jpeg's which were not visibly messed
up. Long since gave up on the idea though since the new player reads them
individually anyway.

Have you checked with www.vcdhelp.com and their list of compatible DVD
players? I had seen there that the observations people have made don't
always match up with the specs.

--
Farewell,
Bob

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