Hi!

I´m using a Desktop Editing system to author Video CD´s, but I have a lot of trouble doing it.

I use TMPGEnc to encode the material (Audio and Video separated), then I use Video MUX to obtain a bunch of .mmd files and use it in Video CD 2.0 Toolkit.

I create de Image and I use a software called toc split to convert the cd image to a .cue file and then burn it with NERO 5.5

A couple of problems here

I get just nothing after intro and menu screen when playing in my settop DVD player (I designed the title if you press a number you´ll be seeing a chapter). And the documentation says that my player supports VCD 2.0

There´s no sound!!! I´ve checked the multiplexed files (*.mmd) and there are as big as the source files together.

Any solutions out there?

I apreciatte your help, ´cause I need to deliver some work for a client (new doing this).

Thanks

Ulises

-- Ulises Bravo (creatifoto@terra.com.mx), December 22, 2001

Answers

There are a few things you should note: The CD-image VCDToolkit produces will only be accepted directly in such CD- burning applications like Gear and WinOnCD. Nero is not explicitly mentioned in the Toolkit documentation, which is not surprising considering it's a more than five-year old program designed for Windows 95, and Nero was then either not well-known yet or even out. Nero can accept cue files, okay, but those are not what it was really designed for. Unless you are using the latest Nero, (5.5.6.4) earlier versions have a lot of bugs where VCD menus are concerned. For example, similar to what you mentioned, after choosing a selection from the menu it just stops right there. Or, assuming you were able to go to a selection, pressing NEXT or PREV on the remote doesn't lead to anything: the present selection plays on. And many others... Lastly, if you are going to make money out of it, at least get, say, VideoPack5 ($400, but hey, it's business) so you can even have an upward path towards DVD- authoring.

-- M. Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), December 23, 2001.