Video CD Mastering
Mike Richter
I have not burned a disc with it yet, but Adaptec's Easy CD Creator
seems to do what you want - in particular, the Video CD component. It
allows for menuing with still frames and handles conversion from
whitebook MPG to DAT. (If purchased from Adaptec at $99, it has a 30-day
money-back guarantee.)
Mike
Yasha wrote:
>
> I need help creating a simple Video CD (Video CD Format) with menus and/or
> selectable
> hotspot locations. Let's say I just want to be able to insert a CD into
> any Video CD
> player and the menu would comeup letting me select from a choice of several
> video clips.
> I have been researching this issue for quite a while and seen to many
> e-mails from
> people describing the process, but with no details at all, just a general
> description.
> There is just not enough information. For example I am looking at the "John
> Lennon"
> Video CD directory structure:
>
> |
> |---Cdi
> |---Ext
> |---Mpegav
> | |-------Avseq01.dat
> | |-------Avseq02.dat
> | |-------...........
> | |-------Avseq20.dat
> |
> |---Segment
> | |-------Item0001.dat
> |
> |---Vcd
> | |-------Entries.vcd
> | |-------Info.vcd
> | |-------Lot.vcd
> | |-------Psd.vcd
>
> Now from seeing that directory structure I can assume several things:
>
> 1. CDi - directory to hold various files to be CDi compatible. ?
> 2. Ext - ???
> 3. Mpegav - directory to hold all the MPEG video files, just renamed to
> DAT (Why?)
> 4. Segment - directory to hold a selectable menu. MPEG file?
> 5. Vcd - direcory to hold various VCD files. What files? What purpose?
>
> There are two Video CD revisions that I know of: Video CD 1.0 and Video
> CD 2.0. What
> are the differences, what is the standard, how to create different
> versions, how to make
> it coomatible for all the Video CD players. So as you see one can have
> lot's of questions
> pretending the actual Video CD standard. Does anyone know where I can get
> the answers to
> all these questions, some white papers pretending to the Video CD format,
> the purpose,
> format and development of the files above and many many more questions
> about this issue.
> I am sure everyone who is interested, and I have seen to many posts from
> different people,
> would be greatly appreciated for all the help and information that anyone
> can provide.
>
> Thank You very much for all the help in advance!
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