If you have this kind of compatibility issue, please do not assume that all the movies you have received are bad. This is really not bad at all. There are times that some VCD's may not be compatible with your DVD player. As you know every manufacturer wants to be unique with their product. Thus, it makes the DVD and VCD providers life a little difficult. Again this is nothing more than a compatibility issue.

Now, go take a look of your DVD player. At the front side of your DVD player it often indicates what formats of discs it can play. If it can play CD-RW or CD-R formats disc, then it can play all Video CD. If you are still not sure whether the VCD will play in your DVD player or not, here is the sure way. We offer one free VCD for our shopper to try on their DVD player. Which VCD is totally up to your choice. Simply you can pick any one VCD from our collection for free.

In order to play any of these formats, you must have a player that will play that format. Many computers now come with DVD drives in which case you could play DVD. If your player is not DVD compatible, it will not play DVD.

There is software to play audio CD's (cdp), VCD's (MpegTV, US$10 shareware), and a free MP3 player (X11amp).

VCD: If your DVD player supports VCD playback, simply insert the disc and wait for the menu to come up. Press the corresponding number on your remote for the selection you would like to view, or use the "next/previous chapter" functions to move between episodes. DVD-R: If your DVD player supports DVD-R playback, simply insert the disc, wait for the menu to come up, use the arrow keys to highlight your selection, then select it to view.

The reason why some burned CD or DVD discs cannot be played on your DVD/VCD player is due to the "Read" ability of your DVD/VCD player. Please try to play your burned CD or DVD disc with this DVD player software on your computer. You may download the free DVD player software from the following links: If the burned CD or DVD disc plays well, there is probably a compatibility problem with your current DVD player. Please try to play the burned CD or DVD disc on another DVD player.

The reason why some burned CDs cannot be played on your DVD/VCD player is due to the "Read" ability of your DVD/VCD player. Please make sure your DVD/VCD player supports VCD 2.0 format. Even so, according to our test, some models of DVD/VCD player (normally, old models) do not support some particular brand names of burned CD-R or CD-RW disc (especially for CD-RW disc). If this is your case, please turn to another brand name of blank CD-R disc (not CD-RW disc) to have a try.

VCD: Insert the disc into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive and play the VCD in your favorite program (WinDVD or Windows Media Player is recommended). In WinDVD, wait for the menu to appear, then use the "next/previous chapter" functions to move between episodes. In Windows Media Player, browse the disc and open the folder named "MPEGAV." The *.DAT files in this folder are the episodes. Right click on the file of your choice and select "Open With..

It dependents on DVD drive. There are VCD on published CD, on CDR, and on CDRW. If you plan to play VCD in the CDR media, PIONEER DVD drive is a good selection. APEX and RAITE DVD drives can recognize CDR, CDRW, and VCD. SONY and PANASONIC DVD drives can not read the VCD that stored in the CDR media. However they can read VCD on the CDRW media. And they can read audio-only VCD.

You only need to insert the a disc into DVD-ROM not matter it is DVD, VCD or SVCD, DVD X Player will launch automatically and play the contents for you as long as your DVD-ROM support standard read and write formats. It is just insert and play. You don’t need to bother which type of format to choose for the disc to play. If you find that the inserted disc cannot play correctly, it may be due to the non-standard format of the disc being playing.

The advanced settings allow you to mess around and make quite some noise. However.. most I don't understand what most options mean so I suggest if you're interested you'll ask in the bbMPEG usergroup. Of course DC precision, motion search vectors and such things are obvious candidates to change. For VCD it's simple: CD size in Kilobit (multiply with 1024 to get from MB to KB and with 8 to get from KB to KBit) / 1374 = number of seconds.

The DVD'S are recorded onto high quality DVD-R which are compatible with about 95 % of players today. The newer the DVD player the most likely they will play properly.

Over 98% of DVD players on the market support our DVD format. If you purchased your player in the last 2 to 3 years, you will have no problem playing your DVD in your DVD player on on a computer that has a DVD drive. If your DVD and it does not work with your player, simply return the DVD to us, and we'll exchange it for a VHS copy.

Most newer DVD players will play the discs we create without a problem. We maintain a list of compatible players. If you have any doubt about the ability of your player to play our discs, please contact us and we will check your player against our compatability list.

Sometimes this problem is caused by media incompatibility issues. If a DVD/CD does not play or work after you have burned the medium, choose another medium type or brand and repeat the burning process. Eventually, you may have to lower the burning speed. Many writers are not compatible with cheap or old media (blanks). The quality of some blanks is actually so bad, that the specified maximum speed cannot be reached in most cases. Find a combination of writer, disc and player that work together.

Answer: Sorry, but we can not issue refunds if your DVD player can not read our DVD's. We are aware that old model DVD players do not read DVD-R's. We published this information on our Web site and made available test DVD's for the purpose of determining if your DVD player will play correctly our DVD's. All modern DVD players will play our DVD's. With the price of DVD players going down to below $50, this is not really a major issue.

It's not likely. DVD circuitry is completely different, the pickup laser is a different wavelength, the tracking control is more precise, etc. No hardware upgrades have been announced, and in any case they would probably be more expensive than buying a DVD player to put next to the laserdisc player.