Hi I am just getting into making my own VCD. Mostly putting my own animations, or family videos to cd. I am looking to buy a DVD player that will play these. They say some of the newer DVD player can play VCD also, but it is hard to find one. Also, do they play CD-RW, or CD-R ?

oh, I might as well ask one more quistion,,, When I make my own VCD, I save my animations out as a 720 X 480 avi uncompressed format, and then I covert it in my Xing MPEG converter to a 352 X 240 format, and then use EZ Cd Creater to convert that to a .dat file. Is this the way it should be done? If any of you have any suggestions, please email me. I am learning more about this each day, but I find there is a lot more to learn. Thanks Jeff

-- Jeff (jlampo@ravensoft.com), January 10, 2000

Answers

Jeff .-

I am also doing computer animations and putting them on VideoCDs. The way you do it has nothing wrong.

But the Xing Compressor has not the best scaling routines. You can render directly to 352x240 uncompressed AVI and after that encode to MPEG.

Or use Adobe Premiere to Scale the 720x480 uncompressed animation and use the "Panasonic" Adobe Premiere Plug In which will encode to a VideoCD MPEG compliant file directly.

Hope this helps you a little.

-- Roberto Gomez Torres (robertogt@bigfoot.com), January 10, 2000.

Sounds like your doing everything great. Like I said before, I would look into buying either the Pioneer Dv- 525, or the Phil DVD 825 Both are under the $250.00 price, at either Best Buy, or i did see one at Target Stores.

Keep your target source( animations) at twice the size before conversion. This seems to offer the best quality. This works for me.

Good Luck

-- (suitguy28@yahoo.com), January 11, 2000.

I have the Sony DVPS530 DVD. It will not read CD-Rs and unreliably reads the VCD's I've made on my HP Writer with EasyCD 4.0. I have had my VCD tested on the next higher up Sony and it does not work either.

-- Bob (senzigr@webcombo.net), January 13, 2000.