VCD Help

Charles Martin chasm at mac.com
Sat Mar 22 21:48:49 PST 2003


> From: Dwayne Bradley <dwayne_bradley 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:

When a DVD player says that it can play VCDs, that does not mean it can 
necessarily play *homeburned* VCDs. It may be referring to 
commercially-pressed VCDs.

In order to play homeburned anything, the DVD player must have a 2nd 
laser than can read the dye change of homeburned discs rather than the 
pits of commercial discs.

As a rule of thumb, if your DVD player can play homeburned audio CDs, 
it should be able to play homeburned video CDs. Can your machine play 
homeburned Audio CDs?

_Chas_

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