svcds are hard to get to play on pc.

[vivrantpork]

ok i recently got the a.i. svcd... it plays fine from my hd... but when i burn it and try to run with powerdvd it has problems.. it seems to be struggling like it was a bad burn or sumthing... it sometimes wont even be able to access the movie.. out of 5 tries i got it to play once.. ive tried burning it at 1x 2x and 4x.. i even tried extracting the video from the bin file and burning it using nero... nuthing seems to werk... ;( its not the media becuz ive made vcds/svcds with these before...by the way.. im using compusa 16x 80min/700mb....

[Thrawn]

btw seems like your cd drive is too slow *g*

[setarip]

Try a different software player, such as WinDVD v.3.xxx...

[vivrantpork]

hmmm does svcd require faster cd drive then vcd??

[Enchanter]

It is almost always the case of an inadequately fast drive when the original file can be played smoothly from HD, but not from the CD drive itself. :)

Anyway, is DMA enabled for your drives already?

[vivrantpork]

hmmm.... it seems that if i drag the mpg out of the folder into powerdvd it will play fine... but it seems to have trouble when trying to start it with powerdcd ;(