OT-SVCD ?'s cont.....

PhilinCT wrote on 1/2/2003, 5:58 PM
Ok, I finaly was able to get movie factory 1 toaccept a file from VV3 without re-rendering. I authored the disk and wnet to burn it only for my drive to spit the cdrom back out at me. looked on the website to see my drive is not list as compatiable with svcd creation and movie factory. I did create a disk image file, and then simply burned that to cd-r, but the resulting disk would not play on either my computer or brand new DVD-player.

Any suggestions?
Phil

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nolonemo wrote on 1/2/2003, 6:41 PM
This is along the lines of "did you check to see if it was plugged in", but I understand that a lot of newer DVD players won't play SVCD (eg my Toshiba 3805), so check the specs for the player. Don't know anything about computer playback, so can't help there.
Grazie wrote on 1/3/2003, 1:31 AM
Check out your DVD player specifacation at www.vcdhelp.com . I've had hair pulling times with two friends DVD players as I proudly attempted to "play" my newly created SVCD or SDVD or VCD projects on them! ONly to find out that their DVD boxes were not capable of doing it. Yup - it's a minefield. Some people get the recipe correct first time and can't understand why I should be having these problems. However a reeeally good "wheeze" is to take some of your "suspect" platters to ye olde worlde DVD box Shoppe! Ask them if they would mind letting you "review" the quality of thier DVD boxes by placing . . . . etc etc - Good eh? I've tried the "suspect" vcds on different boxes to find out that they play beautifully - and in WIDESCREEN [this was truly embarassing, having the whole shop/store view my French holiday with the missus - ooooer! AND on multi-screens - so be warned!]. Give it a go. Apart from anything else, you'll see your Opus Major in full majestic digital video - as it should be.

Grazie
Former user wrote on 1/3/2003, 9:45 AM
There are files that a VCD and SVCD need besides the MPEG file in order to be recognized by a DVD player. That is probably why your IMAGE did not play. The burning software has to "author" the VCD and SVCD.

Dave T2