hi everyone! i'm trying to burn a mixed media CD that contains both audio & video (avi/mpg) tracks but can be played on all three of the ff: 1) regular audio-only CD players (i.e. Discman), 2) generic vcd/dvd players, 3) a PC. i use the X2CD burner and the resulting CD can't be played on a Discman since it converts the audio tracks into video system files. Nero's mixed mode CD, on the other hand, has to be played on a PC for the video to be viewed.

Furthermore, is the above also possible if the video format is DivX (or any DVD-quality video file format)?

Thanks for your help!

-- Reynard Cordero (reynard.cordero@etelecare.com), December 15, 2003

Answers

Buring AVI to such a disc could be a big problem for a VCD/DVD player. To be blunt, your question is really too advanced for this forum. You might try the forums at http://www.doom9.org. Mixed media CDs can be tricky and are really a bit too advanced for what most of us are trying to do here.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), December 15, 2003.

You may try the following:

Burn a VCD (video-CD) disk with Nero, for example, and add the audio .CDA in the root directory. The audio files should be, then .CDA, and the video files should be MPEG-1. Nero also reencodes some video AVI files.

In that way, -the VCD could be played in a DVD -the CDA tracks could be read by a CD player or a computer -the .DAT video files (MPEG-1) inside the MPEGAV directoy could be read by a PC too (e.g. with ZoomPlayer, Windows Media)

I don't think the CD could read the *audio* from the *video* files, though.

Good luck.

-- (lxalvarz@udc.es), January 04, 2004.