What's the difference between VCD and CD-R?

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Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone knew what was the difference between a VCD and a CD-R format? I tried to burn a copy of an orginal VCD into a CD-R. When I went to try to play the CD-R in my VCD compatitable DVD player, it wouldn't play. Is there any difference between the VCD and CD-R. If so, does anyone know which software could be used to copy VCD so that the copy would play in my DVD player.

Thanks in advance

-- John Chen (Rockdog10@excite.com), February 21, 2000

Answers

The difference is plain as day. Flip the disc over. Notice the CD-R has a different color than the VCD. That is because the VCD is a fully pressed CD. The CD-R has the recording surface exposed and so some machines can not play these back. It is simply a problem with the media types. There is no way to make an exact copy of a VCD that will work everywhere unless you use CD press.

-- The Lone Ranger (rutger_s@hotmail.com), February 21, 2000.

Hi John, If I understand your problem correctly, what you did was just to copy the mpeg file onto your CD and tried playing it back on your DVD player, right? If so, then you need to get a proper VCD burning software to do it. I recommend Adaptec Easy CD Deluxe 4.01 or CeQuadrat WinOnCD. Hope this helps.

-- ALex (alfy@cyberway.com.sg), February 21, 2000.

One obvious reason would be your DVD player doesn't recognize CD-R media to begin with. If your DVD player isn't any recent Philips or Pioneer model then you will not be able to play your created VCDs on them even if you made them correctly. Read other threads in this forum under playing CD-R.

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@yahoo.com), February 22, 2000.

Hey all,

Thanks for the response. I will try to use CeQuadrat and see if it is would work. I'm still a little confuse if it is the silver (pressed) format that is not making it work or if it is the software I am using (Nero). Actually, my Konka DVD player plays all CD-R but I want to make a copy of an orginal (pressed) VCD for my sister who owns a Pioneer. Does anyone own a Konka DVD out there. It is awesome. It plays all CD-R, VCD and DVD. Also, it can actually record DVD movies into VHS bypassing the scramble signals you get with other DVD players. It only sells for under $200 too.

Thanks, John

-- John Chen (Rockdog10@excite.com), February 22, 2000.


Hey all,

I forgot one thing. My sister pioneer DVD player plays the orignal VCD but won't play the copy version of the VCD.

Thanks.

-- John (Rockdog10@excite.com), February 22, 2000.



Most players will play CD-RW

-- Al McCraw (amccraw@ix.netcom.com), February 22, 2000.

John, what model of Pioneer does your sister have? More then likely you have some sort of VCD copy protection on your original VCD disc. Here is how you bypass that stupid copy protection problem. open the VCD and look at the AVMpeg folder. copy the *.dat file(s) to your hard disk. Get software that will convert *.dat to Mpeg1 stream. Burn the stream back to VCD format with Nero. lnguyen

-- (wingstarzz@hotmail.com), February 23, 2000.

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