Hi, I have a Denon DVD-900 player and I was wandering something. I tried to make VCD's and then tried to play them, but the player didn't recognize them (everything was standard but maybe I made an error burning them, I don't know it yet). It is said in the documentation that the player plays CD-R/W but only for music/mp3 dics. I was wondering if it is possible that the player has a protection that doesn't allow the playback of non music/mp3 CD-R/W or is it most likely that I didn't burn the VCD's correctly ?(I used Memorex Silver 700Mb CD-R,the mpg files were standard(TMPGEnc: 352*240, 29.976fps, 1150Kbps, 44Khz and I burnt the Cd's with Nero).

Thank You

-- S.P. (sebpoirier@hotmail.com), January 15, 2003

Answers

Though rare, and likely only in North America, some DVD players specifically don't play VCDs. They play CD-R/RW fine of other formats. You read your player manual and look at the player faceplate; if "compact disc digital video" is nowhere then tough.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), January 16, 2003.

Go to http://www.vcdhelp.com and see what the DVD Player Compatibility List says about your player. Mehmet is correct, some North American DVD players don't support VCD at all. I know that some Toshiba models did not support VCD, but you'll have to check the list I mentioned to see what it says about your player. You didn't say what you burned with, so make sure you are creating a VCD and not something else. The values you listed are correct for NTSC VCD.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), January 16, 2003.

I also have a Denon DVD-900. I made a VCD and was disappointed that it did not work. I looked through the manual and found that in the disc compatibility section, VCD/SVCD is not listed. Bummer.

-- Penguin (penguin@usga.org), July 08, 2004.