Need Help Creating VCD Disc from Video Project Image

[tedsmith]

I need help creating a VCD disc in Video Studio.

I have been able to create and burn an SVCD, which plays, so I know my burner is working.

After discovering this forum, I tried creating a new project without any .mpg in the timeline until I got to the Share/Create Disc option. But even there I would get the "Failed to burn data onto the disc" message (error 534:214 721 691:0).

So, I then read about creating a video image file and then burning it to disc with the Ulead VCD/DVD Disc Image recorder.

Following are the settings I used for the project:



Following are the settings I used to burn the image:



I was successful in burning a disc with the following contents:






However, none of the contents is a playable file.

Thanks, I would be grateful for any help!

[GeorgeW]

Do you have a DVD Player that will play VCD's

Try putting your VCD into a set-top dvd player to see whether it will play...

Regards,
George

[tedsmith]

Thanks for the quick reply, George.

The recorded VCD plays the audio track in my set top CD/DVD player, but not the video.

Also the SVCD disc I recorded using the Share/Create Disc procedure played just fine in my computer CD-RW/DVD ROM drive. (And I'm still stumped as to why I can use that option to create an SVCD, but not a VCD).

Any other ideas?

Cheers,
Ted

[tedsmith]

George's reply got me to thinking about ways to read the burned disc though I could find no playable file type I recognized on it. So, I opened Windows Media Player, then inserted my disc in the D: drive, and Voila! it opened and played just fine (sound of trumpets and appluase here). I'm still not sure about why my set top CD/DVD won't play it, but as long as I can play it on my computer now using this procedure, I'm satisfied.

[Ken Berry]

Stand-alone DVD players have to be specifically rated to play VCDs, and in fact most of the cheaper Chinese brands seem to play anything round and silver you put in them. But many others, particularly higher end, expensive brand names, are very fussy. Even those rated to play VCDs, will usually prefer commercially produced VCDs but not home made ones.

The same applies ten fold to SVCDs, with even fewer players willing to even try to play them. Hell, some of these higher-end players even refuse to play home made DVDs, or will play them erratically. This seems to be a result of either a preference or dislike of a certain type of disc (+R, -R, +/-RW), brand of disc, the type of dye used on the disc, the audio format used in the burn, and/or the speed at which you burn.

The latter is important. We recommend that you burn DVDs at no more than 4x, regardless of the rated speed of your burner or the discs you're using. With CDs, I never used to burn any faster than 24x. A slower burning speed in effect allows the laser to embed the signal more firmly in the disc and thus give a wider variety of players more of a chance of being able to read the signal and play them.