Posted by Paul Marsh on 01/02/07 20:48

"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:39:55 -0000, "Paul Marsh"
> <pmarsh@btinternet.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>>I have had this VCR/DVD Player combi for two years. Eighteen months ago I
>>started downloading video in ".avi" format from the internet and burning
>>them on to DVD-R to watch on the Toshiba. I was so pleased with the
>>results
>>that I have since bought two further MPEG4 compatable DVD players,
>>(Targa5100 and a Packard Bell DivX350).
>>Everything was fine until about two months ago when the Toshiba refused to
>>recognise any MPEG4 discs, inserting a disc is greeted with "check disc"
>>or
>>"disc error". It still plays commercially made DVDs; my own made back-ups
>>in
>>DVD format; commercial audio CDs and my own made Photo CDs in ".jpg"
>>format.
>>It will no longer recognise discs in ".avi"; ".mpg" or ".mp3" format that
>>used to work.
>>All discs still play OK in the Targa and the Packard Bell. It seems to
>>have
>>forgotten how to deal with anything in MPEG. I thought that a "factory
>>reset" might help but Toshiba tell me that there is no facility on this
>>model. I have never attempted to multi region hack or firmware upgrade the
>>machine.
>>I have used a lens cleaning DVD several times.
>>
>>Any ideas, please?
>>
>>Paul
>
> Can you play .mp3 CDs, or is it just the .mp3 DVDs that won't play?
>
> See
> http://www.home-entertainment.toshiba.co.uk/consumer/products.nsf/pages/dvd-combidvdvcr-sd-34vb?opendocument
>
> When you click on MP3 or DivX, the explanation is ...
>
> "MP3 Playback - DVD technology which allows MP3 encoded music
> tracks to be played back via CD-R or CD-RW (model dependent)."
>
> "DivX playback - Allows DivX encoded video tracks to be played back
> via CD-R or CD-RW"
>
> For .jpg formats, the explanation is ...
>
> "JPEG Viewer - Enables viewing of digital camera images through a DVD
> player via CD-R/DVD-R or CD-RW (model dependent)."
>
> - Franc Zabkar
> --
> Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.




Neither mp3 CDs nor mp3 DVDs work now. All the quoted formats used to work,
but now do not.

Paul

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