how do you produce an audio cd with a video on it, that can be played on a regular cd player for audio, and dvd or playstation for the video? the reason I am wondering is that our band is producing our next alblum and want to put a music video on our audio cd... we want it pressed not cdr or dvdr to be distrobuted nation wide.

-- mike bezold (the_front77@hotmail.com), November 23, 2002

Answers

Let me get this straight....

You want to release a CD that has a video on it as extra?

You can put a video (mpg) on an audio CD. That means that the audio tracks will be playable on standard audio CD players, PC CD-ROM players, and DVD players. The video will be playable on CD-ROM players, but not DVD players and not Playstation. To be able to play video on DVD players as part of a CD, you need to specially encode the video.

Usually, bands and artists produce as a single, 4 or 5 track CD with an included music video as extra. See the website I designed and produced for a local artist here in the UK (http://www.rosieribbons.tk/ - go to the discography section for an example of what I mean).

Email me for free consultation on any services of this nature.

Regards

Dean Phillips SIM Solutions

-- Dean Phillips (dean.phillips@4mymail.co.uk), January 31, 2003.