SVCD's will play on pc but not on standalone player

[Kidfrost]

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to this svcd business and am having some problems. I cannot get the copied svcd to play on a standalone player (i've tried 3)yet it plays without a problem on my pc using powerdvd. I've tried using nero, cdrwin and fireburner on my Plex1210a and still it fails. I've also tried using the svcd setting in nero using the BBMPEG muxed file, this does not work either. I managed to get hold of a cd burned by somebody else and it worked fine. The main difference was in the MPEG folder, it had a .DAT file in it which could be played using media player, my MPEG2 folders have .MPG file which cannot be played using windows media player.

Please help cos I'm Stuck.

Thanks

[Matthew]

Check the dvd compatibility list at vcdhelp.com

Many dvd players won't play svcds, some will play them but only on pressed discs (and maybe cdrws) not cdrs.

-edit-

Just noticed the .DAT bit :p

Try using "use MPEGAV inseatd of MPEG2" in the cd image creation tab of DVD2SVCD. That makes an SVCD with .DAT files.

[da franksta]

correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the dat file a cdi compatible vcd file?

[Mozart]

nahhh. If your player can play a .DAT file, but cannot play a avseq01.mpg file, this means that it can play VCD and it cannot play SVCD. The file inside the mpegav folder of a non-standard SVCD is also a .mpg file.

[Kidfrost]

Ahhh... so my svcd's are possibly ok. So the chances are that the standalone's I've tried will play vcd's on cdr, but not svcd's on cdr.
If a standalone will not play cdr's, will it help by burning a 1x speed or do they just simply not play cdr's? A quick question on nero, when you use the make svcd option and load the BBMPEG muxed file it says it is not a compliant file, if you select re-encode, will this turn it into a compliant svcd file and will this make a difference to the standalone being able to play the svcd.

Thanks very much for the help.....

[Mozart]

if it can play CDr, but cannot play SVCD burned into a CDR, this means that it cannot play ANY SVCD, even if it is a pressed SVCD - which I don't know any webstore where to buy one of these. The speed of burning cannot help you.