[MacDV] Re: VCD Help and CD Creator / Toast comparison

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I have a NS 415 Sony DVD player and I have made a fair number of VCDs. 
I use only the cheapest CD media since they will only be played once or 
twice I don't worry about the longevity of the media ( besides I don't 
share the concerns many have with cheap media)  The only people ever to 
complain about not being able to play them are those trying to play 
them on a CD ROM equipped PC.  I use Toast to burn them and it couldn't 
be easier to make them.

By the way I also have Roxio Easy CD Creator Platinum which took about 
a year to work properly on my XP PC, the fault lay with Roxio finally a 
18 MB "update" (that is enough code for a whole program) fixed it and 
it works as good as Toast.  The one feature it has that I really like 
is that you can make slide shows on CDs that will launch automatically 
after inserted in a PC, so even the most computer illiterate can launch 
your slide show.

Gerhard
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 12:00  PM, David Thrasher wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
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Gerhard Kuhn
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