After having burned a mpg file in WinOnCd 3.7 PE successfully, I try to make an image of the burnt VCD with CDRWin 3.7, it doesn't show Track 1 but shows Track 2. As a result, I cannot make an image.

In WinOnCd, it tells me that there are 2 tracks on the CD. When I put the CD in the DVD player, it views fine on the TV.

Has anybody seen this kind of problem before? My buddy has also come across the same problem.

-- Tony Yip (tonyyip@ottawa.com), February 14, 2000

Answers

Are you just trying to make an exact duplicate of your VCD? if so, use CDRWin (version 3.7f spacifically)

It is the best duplication software by far. I know, i use it for game cd's.

-- MrVCD (mrvcd@juno.com), February 14, 2000.

The original VCD I created has 2 tracks.

When I use CDRWin 3.7f to make an image of it, it says it has 2 tracks but when I try to make an image of the VCD, it complains it cannot read the first blocks of the CD.

I've tried with different CD-RW's, CD-R's, different mpg files

My buddy is seeing across the same problem when he tries it too.

Seems like the problem is in Track 1 that it can't read.

The VCD plays fine in a DVD player hooked up to my TV though.

-- Tony Yip (tonyyip@ottawa.com), February 14, 2000.

That your VCD plays fine means there are no problems. There will ALWAYS BE at least two tracks on a VCD. The first track contains all the instruction files/directories, the other track is the actual video/audio data track. If there are, say, four music videos on your VCD, then it has five tracks, etc. In nearly all VCD authoring apps, you can't do much about the first track because that's where info the app has created will be placed. Playable tracks in the layout therefore naturally start with track 2. Anyway, track 2 gets recognized by the DVD player as track 1.

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@yahoo.com), February 15, 2000.

The VCD I created with WinOnCD 3.7 or Videopack 4 looks Ok. It has 2 tracks shown when it is burning. When I try to make a copy of this newly created VCD using CDRWin 3.7, that's when I am seeing the problem. CDRWin doesn't want to make an image of the VCD because it complains not being able to read the first sectors on the VCD (where Track 1 is stored)

I've tried various CD-R's and different mpg files and I still get problem. I have a feeling it's because I'm not using the proper file system for Track 1. Do I use ISO9660 or Joliet for the file system or is there something else I need to change?

I can view the VCD on my DVD player but if I want to make a backup copy of the VCD, the only way to do it is to convert the .dat file in the /mpegav directory to mpg format and use WinOnCD to make a copy. I'd rather use CDRWin to make a backup copy of the VCD.

-- Tony Yip (tonyyip@ottawa.com), February 15, 2000.