I have made a VCD using Videopack 4 with the proper number of tracks (2). When I try to make a copy of the burnt VCD using CDRWin, it complains that it can't read the from the source. I have tried with a few blank CD's and it shows the same problem. Is it a general problem that Video CD's are difficult to copy? Or is it that certain CD-Rom drives have trouble reading Video CD's?

I can creat the VCD perfectly but cannot make a copy of it.

Any help would be appreciated

-- Tony Yip (tonyyip@ottawa.com), February 16, 2000

Answers

Try making an image on the hard drive and burning from there.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 16, 2000.

That was what I was trying to do.

I was using CDRWin to make an image of the newly created VCD onto the hard drive first but that's when I saw the error that said it couldn't read from the source CD.

-- Tony Yip (tonyyip@ottawa.com), February 16, 2000.

Tony - you did not say that and I thought you may be going straight from the disk in another CDrom to the burner on the fly.

Certainly I have made copies of VP4 produced VCD's with Nero via the image process to get multiple copies. I lost my cdrom and have had to use the burner as the source player so an image burnt in Nero to the hdd is the only way in that case. Plus the fact that using the same unit that burnt it originally might help in reading it.

I cannot remember if VP4 can use images, my home PC is off the air for a couple of days to change the burnt out CDrom to a DVD player so I cannot comment.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 16, 2000.

Old CD-ROM drives with 2 to 24 times speeds, including newly produced VCD/CD-only players, cannot read nor recognise CD-RW discs.

Only recently made multi-read CD-ROM drives with 40 times speeds and above, and all new DVD-ROM drives can read CD-RW discs. What CD-ROM drive have you got, Tony? Try reading your VCD from your burner drive.

-- TOMO (ong@worksafe.wa.gov.au), February 17, 2000.

I have too made a vcd with menu using videopack4. And it has nothing to do with svcd. The vcd plays fine in set top players, in both PBC on and PBC off mode. But no programs on my pc can play the *dat files. I can't even copy them to hard disk. Time to go back to EasyCD creator ...

-- Nerian (nerian@altavista.com), February 18, 2000.

By the way, at the same time, I can still play *.dat from my other vcds. So this is not a scsi1hlp.vxd problem(?).

-- nerian (nerian@altavista.com), February 18, 2000.

I have the problem. When I try to copy a video cd, I use EasyCd Pro and I get a cd that works on a pc. but a vcd machine can't read it...

Don't know why .... any Idea ??????

-- Bisso (bhussein@scs-net.org), September 30, 2001.