I am still struggling to make vcd's which will play on my dvd player. I have read alot on here about silver vs blue vs gold disks. Is it treally true that you need to use silver ones for it to work properly... if so any one know a brand available in the uk as all i can find are gold or blue?

-- Geoff Blackham (gblackham@freeserve.com), March 21, 2000

Answers

First you need to check if your DVD player supports VCD. Then you need to see if your player supports CDR and/or CDR-W. What model DVD player are you using? Also, silver refers to disks that are made by professional mass marketed rigs. Like the CDs you buy from the store. Blue and "Gold" (gold usually have a green bottom) are CDR. Silvers are NOT CDR. Also, you need to make sure your mpegs are in VCD format before you create your VCD. EZ CD creator will bitch if you try to make a VCD with a non-compliant mpeg. I like to use the Panasonic MPEG1 Encoder to encode my AVIs and MPEGs to MPEG-1 VCD format. Also, Panasonic can resize your video to be VCD compliant if need be. The LSX encoder can't do that.

Again, let us know what DVD player your using.

Good luck and take care,

-- Michael S. Gilmore (mgilmore@san.rr.com), March 21, 2000.

From what I have read about CDR's there are silver on silver CDR's check out this web site in San Diego. http://www.supply- warehouse.net/sw/index_flash.htm People have referenced using Silver on Silver due to the claimed higher reflectivity. Versus those that are blue. I also read that the reason the Gold on green appear green is because of the Gold Backing making the Blue appear green. If your dvd player will read CDR's then in should not matter what color you use. If it does not then you will have to experiment or rely up the trials and errors of others. I have seen someplace in the archives that someone from the UK had found a very inexpensive Silver on Silver CDR.

-- TR7110 (runyont@usa.net), March 21, 2000.