Playing VCD's on a Sony DVD Player

[cdogg]

I've got a Sony DVP-S330 DVD player. It will play some VCD's that I make using Adaptec's Video CD Creator, but it won't play others. I always use CD-RW discs since this player cannot read CD-R.

For example, I made my first VCD as a test that included several 4-5 minute music videos. Compiled the menu, burnt the cd, and it played fine in the player. I did the same for a half-hour TV episode and it worked fine.

However, I've recently been trying to get a 60-minute movie to work. Instead I get a C:13:00 error flashing on my TV screen and the DVD player. I haven't had much time to experiment why this might be happening, but I have tried another CD-RW and tried using TMPGEnc to "re-encode" the MPEG (tried NTSC and PAL). Same thing...the old VCD I made before still works.

352x240 NTSC
29.97 FPS

I've looked around at

http://www.vcdhelp.com,

but haven't found anything yet. PLEASE HELP!!
ck_blk@yahoo.com

 

[cdogg]

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I tried all sorts of combinations with two different MPEG's. The only way I got it to work was to use a different app called VCDEasy. I highly recommend this to anyone that is serious about making VCD's and knows a little about what they're doing.

Much, much, much more advanced and reliable than Roxio's Video CD software...

Although I was able to make some successful VCD's using Roxio, others weren't. With VCDEasy, I was able to burn 2 MPEG's and play them in my DVD player - both failed to play if I used Roxio. Folder structure was different, which I'm sure contributed.


Freeware outperforms Roxio! Go figure!! LOL



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