VCD Help

[David Thrasher]

I had trouble too getting my friend's Sony DVD player to play a VCD. I found out that it was picky about the CD used for the recording. I've tried a bunch of different brands with no luck and the only one so far that works is a Maxell Music CD-RW. I'd be certainly curious if you or anyone else finds any others that will work.

-Dave

original message:

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:01:12 -0500
Subject: [MacDV] VCD Help
From: Dwayne Bradley <dwayne_bradley at mac.com>
Message-Id: <AF25974F-5C2B-11D7-A951-000393479EAC at mac.com>

I have made my first VCD and I cannot get it to play on my DVD player 
which is supposed to be compatible with VCD (Sony DVP-NS300).  Here are 
the steps that I did in creating the VCD:

1. Created the rendered Quicktime movie (352 x 240; ...

2. Used ffmpegX to create the MPG file from the Quicktime file.  I used...

3. Used Discribe from CharisMac Engineering to create the VCD from ...

4. Attempted to play both discs on my Sony DVP-NS300 DVD player (VCD 
compatible according to the player and VCDHelp.com).  The DVD player 
tries to read the VCD (you can hear the drive making noises) but 
eventually I get a NO DISC message from the player.  This happens with 
both the Max Speed and 1X speed discs.

5. At this point I thought that the discs were bad, so I downloaded the 
trial version of MacVCD X and guess what; it plays BOTH DISCS on both 
the internal DVD drive in my PowerBook G4 and in the external Pioneer 
drive!

I am at a loss right now.  Does anyone have any suggestions why my DVD 
player will not play the discs?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dwayne

P.S.  BTW, I have tried the same process above with both generic CDs 
that I got on a spindle with the external drive and also with HP 
branded CDs (C8001A).  Both give the same result.