I have Adaptec EZCD creator 4.02 installed and would like to try Video pack 4 but every time I install video pack 4 the system freaks out. I remember reading somewhere that a driver or setting needs to be added to allow video pack to work. Please help Tank you in advance Duck

-- Tony Duckett (duckett@tdux.com), July 07, 2000

Answers

VideoPack 4 supports only SCSI CD-R drives and all the *.vxd and *.dll files this entails. You check first whether or not you have a SCSI drive. Personally, I believe anyone contemplating doing VCDs shouldn't be caught dead with an ATAPI drive, no matter how super- duper it is in all other departments.

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@yahoo.com), July 07, 2000.

The CDwriter is SCSI. I remember something about adaptec drivers messing up the video pack but cannot remember what to do to fix it.

-- Tony Duckett (duckett@tdux.com), July 07, 2000.

Adaptec EZ CD s/w and Cequadrat s/w will not live together within a system peacefully. You either use one or the other. If you really want to use both then you will have to use a boot menu to select one or the other at system bootup time. Nero has bootable menu batch file for Nero, Cequadrat, and EZ CD. www.ahead.de

-- lnguyen (wingstarzz@hotmail.com), July 07, 2000.

My current system is running EZCD 4.02 and WinOnCD 3.7PE at the same time. I don't need to run different bootups. They just live peacefully with each other. Only thing I had to do is to deactivate the start up of Direct CD 3.0.

Previously, I had tested Video Pack 4.0 (but gave it up when I found that WinOnCD 3.6 PE could create menus and handle mpeg-1 files). I ran Video Pack 4.0 on a IDE-Burner (Yamaha 4261 - which has since burnt itself out). So I don't know why there is a rumour about Video Pack 4.0 being only usable with SCSI-burners. A mate of mine also ran it with IDE-burner without any problems. But like all CeQuadrant's software, the correct driver for your burner must be loaded into your system so that the software will run properly.

For those of you contemplating on buying a burner, don't make the same mistake as me. Pay more and get a SCSI burner. The reason for my IDE-burner burning out was due to my daily work schedule of 12 hours and the beam was 'on' throughout even though I wasn't using it. The lifespan was slightly under 18 months. I am running a SCSI-burner now which can be switched on when needed.

One thing I noted on the VCDs that I have created using EZCD is the VCD set-top doesn't run back to the starting point after the video has ended like those created with WinOnCD does.

One more discovery. EZCD and WinOnCD can burn VCDs on CDRW media but depending on your set-top, it may or may not be able to play it back. Fortunately, mine does and I can test all the different types of effects in my video and titling on CDRW media before committing them to CDR.

Cheers NT

-- NT (i1x@nightmail.com), July 07, 2000.

MY Video pack 4 and adaptec ran together finbe. My VP4 had a problem with the nti cd maker pro. So i contacted them and they gave me a list of vxd files to rename in dos and this solved the problem(some of those vxd files were from adaptec, but they still worked). However my vp4 would (and still so i removed it again)load up my clips fine, but after being burned i would have no sound.

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), July 08, 2000.

Anybody, please point me where I coudl download video pack 4. Thanks a lot Anhbau

-- Anhbau Lee (anhbau@yahoo.com), November 06, 2000.

i dont know what this anti-ide ranting is about. yes ide uses more system resourses, but i respond with SCSI cost too much! 2 of my PCs have ide burners(1 phillips & 1 sony) and i use them very regularly, have had them over a year and never a problem. and the whole "buffer underrun" thing is due to not having enough ram. each of mine have 128mb and i can do 20 things at once if i so desire. i guess i should add mine are only 4x, so if i were trying to burn at 8x or 10x or higher i too might be damning ide drives.

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), November 06, 2000.

Hi , im using easy cd creator 5.2 deluxe , winoncd 3.8 , nero 5.5.5 , video pack 40 and clone cd 3.1.1 all on the same system running a yamaha crw 2100s external scsi burner , with no problems at all ,it may sound silly but i think it is the order of software installation , easy cd first then winoncd then nero then clone cd then video pack 40 , all using 98se , cheers Geoff

-- Geoff Harrison (laradio@tpg.com.au), November 12, 2001.