I have a sepearate toshiba dvd player toshiba sd 100-E got it chipped couple months ago. Everything is cool but recently one of my friends gave me vcd which recorded version on to a normal cd (cdR) and wont play comes up as "disk error" whilst the vcds i purchased it plays can you tell me whats going wrong ?????????????

Look at different file formats which will play and wont play

Is it because of different file formats : it plays

vcd : 7 files ( cdi[4], karaoke, mpegav[1], segment, vcd[4] ,win[7], autorun )

whilst in other version vcd(cdr recorded) : 5 files ( cdi[4], ext[3], mpegav[1], segment, vcd[4] )

-- farouk popat (fpopat@hotmail.com), August 23, 2001

Answers

Go to www.vcdhelp.com and check the DVD Compatibility List to see if your Toshiba will play CD-R. I will warn you that Toshiba DVD players are infamous for NOT playing CD-R media. One of my friends had one and he proudly told me "It will play anything". Well, it won't play CD-R media, so he ended buying another DVD player within weeks of making that statement to me. The reason that VCDs you purchased will play is that they are recorded to sliver CD blanks and those blanks reflect at a different wavelength than CD-R. Look at the back of a VCD you purchased and you will see that it is silver like an audio CD you bought in a music store. Look at CD-R. You will see that it is blue or green tinted. CD-R discs reflect back at a different wavelength than the commercial silver discs. CD-R support requires a 2nd laser and some manufacturers are too cheap to put another laser in their machines just to support CD-R.

-- Jason (Jason.Shumate@equant.com), August 23, 2001.

i have a toshiba 1600 booklet says it will not play cd-r's but i have made audio cd-r's that it will play using the right shade of green disc it will work it works with samsung premium cd-r 74. it will work with Prime Peripherals cd-r but it wont work with discs of a lighter shade than those darker shade i'm not sure.

-- Dennis (frozencustard1@adelphia.net), August 24, 2001.