Playing .DAT from disc made by WinOnCD 3.7

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Hi, Recently, the VCD that I burn using WinOnCD can only be played on desktop VCD player, or Xing using the "Open VideoCD" option from the File menu. If I try to open the AVSEQ01.DAT file using Xing or using Media Player 6.4, I always get an error saying that there is no codec to play the video stream. But if I use VCDGear to rip the DAT back to MPG, I can play it using the same Media Player or Xing.

This only happen recently, and I have no idea why. I didn't change my method of capture, encoding or recording. Maybe there are a few new software being installed and OS patch and such, but basically no change in method. My older discs are fine and the DAT file can be played straight from the CD-R.

The VCD seems compliant, because apart from using VCD compliant template from Panasonic or TMPEG, my desktop VCD player alone confirms that (it is sensitive to non-compliant disc).

Any idea what could have happen, and how do I investigate more? Anyone with same experience?

Cheers,

Rusman

-- Rusman E. Priyana (priyana@eudoramail.com), November 02, 2000

Answers

Hi Rusman,

I had the same experience as you. The .dat file sometimes can be played by Media Player and sometimes cannot. I didn't find any wrong with my MPEG1 file, but when I burnt it to VCD using WinOnCD 3.7 PE the problem came out. I make a little test with lower burning speed, sometimes succeed but not always. I have tried burning the same file a second time with the same speed, sometimes succeed sometimes don't.

I have read in this forum before that someone suggest to make an image file first before burning into disc. I try to make the image file first and from there I make the VCD. So far, the problem's gone. But, I don't know why it should be that way.

Bye.

-- Beni K. (b_kartono@hotmail.com), November 02, 2000.


Hi Beni,

Thanks for the info. I will try with image file and see if my problem dissapear too. FYI, I have always untick the "write-on-the-fly" tick, so I thought it should be doing same thing with makeing image file. But I will give it a try anyway. (Before switching to Nero to see if it helps)

Thanks.

Rusman

-- Rusman E. Priyana (priyana@eudoramail.com), November 02, 2000.


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