Taiyo Yudens
I finally went out and got some new CD-Rs. A spindle of 100 Taiyo Yudens. On a lark, I burned one as a VCD, and, lo and behold, the GoVideo reads it!
Well, kinda. It starts breaking up in the middle. Maybe it's a bad burn. Time to burn more discs. Again.
But it's a bit of progress, I guess.