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How to u burn using Nero!! Are there specific options i have to check off or something casue i fallowed the instructions, and copied a .mpg but there was only sound but it was choppy and no video??

could someone please help? thanks

-- Dan (ribshot@hotmail.com), December 19, 1999

Answers

Dan if there is a basic problem with your VCD files Nero will tell you:

Make sure that you have the make VCD option active and when you go to drag files into the box the "make a compliant vcd" is ticked. Sometimes I have found that does not always stay ticked and a non compliant file will go un noticed.

You do not say what your playing the file in, are you on a computer or on a DVD player. I got choppy files initially on Pioneer DVD players and on no others - sometimes the media is at fault as well (brand of CD-R or CD-RW).

If your on a computer you need a player that will effectively handle mpegs such as Cyberlinks VCD PowerPlayer or the more expensive Cyberlink PW PowerPlayer.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), December 19, 1999.


I am having the same problem, I have burned many VCDs using Adaptec EZ CD Creator 4.0 Deluxe, but have yet to write a CD that will play om my Panasonic A-120 with Nero. I am writing to Memorex 650MB RW Platinum. My writer is compatibable with Nero, what is the problem?

-- Missing parts (mparts@carolina.rr.com), December 19, 1999.

I cannot but wonder why you would want to change to Nero if you have full success with Adaptec? For a start it does not creat interactive vcd's.

My history is the total reverse of that. Adaptec installed in my computer will not allow me to burn at all, so I went in search of something that would so my chain has been WinonCD 3.5, Nero, Video Pack 4 because neither of the other 2 would make interactive vcd's.

Some of my problems were associated with the encoder and Panasonic as well as LSX 3 have fixed the original file problems I had. So there was a reason to keep searching. But I have not found any solution for the adaptec failure to burn and I shall never return to find out.

If your bent on changing I would suggest using the Panasonic encoder as a check of what your using to see if it all originates from the mpeg encoder with Nero set to sense a non compliant file.

Be interested in your comments!

-- Ross mcL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), December 19, 1999.


Mr. Mclennan, I encoded an avi to Mpg using both Panasonic and Xing, as suggested. Both files were recognized by Nero as 2.0 compliant, yet the CD is non-viewable. I can hear audio, but the video is garbage. Although it's true I have burned many CDs with Adaptec, I am on an endless pursuit to produce the best VCD I can make, or at least achieve the so called "as good as VHS quality". I can't say that any of the VCDs that I've written compare to VHS. I was hoping Nero would allow me more flexibility with settings other than the NTSC and PAl standards. Maybe this is as good as it gets.

Thanks for your input Mr. McClennan.

-- Missing Parts (mparts@carolina.rr.com), December 21, 1999.


Hi Missing Parts

Please drop the "Mr" bit, gezzzzzzz Ross will do fine.

Its interesting how so many of us are in persuit of the best we can screw out of our systems and that we all experience some problem that no one else ever gets.

I do not think that the burn as such is the problem or that the burner program is at fault. However, I stand to be corrected on that as there are so many variables to contend with. I have now used 3 out the 5 different burner programs available to me (2 x Adaptec not usable) all using the same source files and using the same RW and the problem has often been in the encode during playback. Thats not the case for you it seems, so the solution to the problem deepens.

I have had a lot of good information feed back by swapping vcd's with others as that is one way of seeing what others are doing with the equipment they have. Being able to discuss things off line is an enormous help - all you need is the will to swap and pay a small price for the airmail costs.

Doing that sort of thing actual takes the "player" out of the chain and sometimes I think thats where the problems may lie, the ability to play files on dvd's with borderline playback ability for VCD's and we do not know that at the time of the purchase.

Its also interesting that Nero read your sound as compliant, elsewhere this morning that has been discussed and it was indicated that Pansonic files were not compliant with Nero and Panasonic admit or indicate that - well now ...........

Thanks for the feed back, that is a real break thro' on this site as it usually happens only off line.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), December 21, 1999.



YEP !!!

That's what I was looking for !!! *puh* the last 3 (in words three) days *g* I was looking for a guide to make my own VCD. There are a lot if interesting things you are telling in here, but where the hell do it put the mpg-files in ? there are the 4 folders..... *hum* mybe someone could tell me. My DVD-Player LG (I guess Goldstar ?!?!?) 2300 can play CD-R(W) and MPG2 - does anybody know what that exactly means ? is there any possibility to make some kind of "mini-DVDs" ??!!?

PLease tell me and mybe by eMail so I will get the answer asap ;o)

bYe Pan

-- Pandur (Pandur@Tyrell-Corp.de), December 22, 1999.


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