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John said:
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OK...you used some type of authoring software
to create a VCD. (That would be a Video CD)
Some DVD Players will play a VCD some will not.
If I'm understanding this correctly, he's sayng the VCD plays just fine on
his stand-alone DVD player when recorded to CD-RW, but not when burnt to
CD-R. Which, for lack of a fancier term, seems backwards. Neither of my
stand-alone DVD players recognize -RW. but they're old.
I suspect something in the copy process went
wrong.
That's always a possibility, but seems doubtful in this case as he's
apparently done a side-by-side comparison of the file sizes and they've
turned up identical. He doesn't say, but I'm wondering if the VCD (burnt to
the CD-R) plays on the machine that created it? If it doesn't, that would
be a sure sign something went wrong during the copy/burn process.
Assuming he hasn't mixed-up the terminology, and his stand-alone player can
play the VCD in question via CD-RW media, it SHOULD be able to play the same
VCD when it's burnt to CD-R. Therefore I'd eliminate the player as being
the "problem". Which brings us back to the disk. Here's what I'm
wondering. Did he leave the session open when he burnt the VCD to the -R
disk? If so, maybe closing the disk would solve the problem? (Might even
have to burn another one in a closed-session.)
It's a shot in the dark, I know. But my thought process is - Being that
the first thing any player does is recognize the media you've fed it, maybe
when he inserts a -RW disk his player has been programmed from the factory
to expect -RW to be open-session and acts accordingly. And by the same
token, when he inserts a -R disk, the player expects the session to be
closed, and if it isn't, the player has no idea what to do with it? Again.
Just a guess.
