Okay here's the deal: I have a Sony CRX230A CD-R/RW drive I just bought, I been trying to burn VCDs using it (using the proper method step by step from the guide), but when I try to play them on my stand alone DVD player (Panasonic DVD-S35) there seems to be a strange distortion & pixellation all over the movie. I tryed the following:
-Used 4x burining speed.
-Used 10 minutes chapters to make them as small as possible
-Went down to only 450MB/45min per VCD
-Turned Power Burn off
I wasted over 15 CD-Rs now trying this out and still no luck. Funny thing is: I tryed buring the same movie(s) using a borrowed HP 9500 Series and they worked just fine.
Is there some kind of software/mode required for this kind of Drive (Sony CRX230A)? If so please, fill me in.
What are you useing to Encode the files to VCD??? Hopefully Not Nero!!
This sounds like more of a DVD Player Problem as opposed to a CD Burner problem...Some DVD Players will give a Stuttering Playback and the Image breaks up into a bunch of Pixels when the VCD was encoded to a bitrate that is too high or if the VCD is even slightly out of standard.....
Why did you buy a CD Burner when you can get a DVD Burner for about the same Price..(You can get a DVD Burner for from $39 US to $79 US You can even get a Dual Layered DVD burner for $79 of TigerDirect)
I used TMPGEnc to encode & Nero to burn, followed the step by step guide from AfterDawn.
As for the DVD player, it's brand new too, & I don't think that's it, cuz as I stated the VCD played alright when I burned it using a HP 9500 series CD-R/RW (without changing the settings), so the problem has to be related to the Sony Drive.
Hi Agham
I spent a lot of time trying all of the programs that are available. I won't make fun of your equipment of programs. I don't think that's helpful and you did ask for help, right?
Converting a DVD to a VCD
1.) Forget all of those tutorials on how to make a VCD.
2.) Go to http://www.eazyvcd.tk/ 3.) Download Eazy VCD version 1.15a. It completely automates the transformation of a DVD to VCD compliant MPG files.
4.) Follow the simple directions.
5.) This will take some time so do it while you're sleeping.
6.) Since you use Nero you can make an image file that will be easy for Nero to use.
7.) Enjoy your VCD
8.) P.S. Don't forget to insert DVD into drive and play a portion of the movie prior to the rip process.
:) As helpful as you are trying to be mate, this does not help me at all, I am not trying to rip DVDs, just encode regular AVIs to MPEG-1 and then burining them to VCDs, which unfortunately results in distorted and pixelated images when I burn using my Sony CRX230A CD-R/RW drive (there's also some kind of whistle in the sound every now and then). On the other hand, using the same Nero settings, but another CD-R/RW drive, the VCD is burned alright and shows perfect image/sound on my DVD player.
