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.
Actually I never tryed, I'll try it out. By chapters I meant pieces of the movies made using DV-Tool (I'm not sure if chapter is the correct term for it). If i don't cut the movie in pieces that's gonna be one big chunk of like 80-90 minutes and might not fit on the CD-R, was that what you meant?
Have you tried encoding first and then "chaptering" afterwards ... people tend to have better results when they do that
Yes, that's what I've been doing. I use TMPGEnc to encode from AVI to MPEG1, then cut the file into little pieces using DVtool normally 9-10 mins each. After that I use Nero to burn the MPEGs to VCD, following the guides from the site step by step.
