I am interested in making chapters withing the VCD's I create. I have heard a little about WinOn CD, but I was hoping for freeware. Does anyone know of the URL for some basic authoring software. This would be greatly appreciatted

-- derek (dereksider@home.com), January 18, 2001

Answers

This is not the answer your looking for but it is pretty simple to create a chapter effect by cutting an MPG into chapters of say 6 minutes each and using the play sequence to resume the complete play of the remainder of the Video from the beginning of a given chapter.

Do to the lack of FF with VCD, I use this method to break up long videos.

My understanding of the VideoCD format is that it can only play a given segment from beginning to end.

-- me (snake_mountain@hotmail.com), January 18, 2001.

video pack 4 is able to do this but for it to work you need to have sequence headers every frame or so when the file itself was encoded. the tmpeg encoder can do this for you

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), January 18, 2001.

I have been using videopack 4.0 for sometime now.
You are able to make chapters (entry points) into
a single mpeg movie. I am not aware of the "no fast fwd"
problem with vcd. As I am able to fwd, rev, pause, stop , resume.
All the functions of a dvd. As a matter of fact, the only
difference I am able to see in a VCD and dvd is a dvd piture
is better. All the navigation works ALMOST the same. With a
vcd you are able to use numbers to navigate as well as arrow keys.

-- Nick D (nickdoogie@goplay.com), January 18, 2001.

I was referring to playbck on Apex 600a with regards to FF. On a PC it works great. My interest in using sequences as alternative starting points on a videocd stems from my putting my collection of old home movies and new home videos on CD so I can watch them on my 32 inch TV. (couch potato stuff) On the Apex 600a with a vcd made up of one continuous MPG, you have to watch from the begenning of the 60 minutes clip just to catch the last 5 minutes of it.

A friend got three episodes of the Xfiles on three VCD's while in Singapore. Unfortunately the starting points for each episode is not at the begenning of each disk, the first disk having a 35 minute 'behind the scenes' trailer. No Menu.

I am still waiting for Nero (or any one) to produce an all-in-one production package.

-- me (snake_mountain@hotmail.com), January 19, 2001.

look,first of all,get adaptec easy cd creator 4.2.its the best out there,seems a lot of people are having problems playing vcd,s in there dvd players,this is not adaptecs fault,its the media.if you need adaptec,send me an e-mail and ill send it to you,but youll need some kind of splitter or aol instant messenger,or yahoo pager or irc,with transfer capabilities.to get back to your question,adaptec lets you make menus,first youd have a start sequence,like this,movie.mpg.movie2.mpg.movie3.mpg all in the start sequence,this enables the video cd to start and play the tracks in sequence.next,youd go to the tab and click menu pages.then you add the tracks.when your done youll have a video cd thatll play when inserted,and itll also have a track menu.Well,im not an expert,but i have an older hp cd writer,i tried and tried to burn vcd with adaptec 4.2 and kept ruining discs,well,after 10 ruined disck,i decided to try a cd/rw disc.i tried a brand new hp cd/rw that came with my cd/rw drive,3 brands and nothing worked. luckily i had 1 memorex cd/rw disk and tried that.seems most cd/rw are pretty much trash.memorex works great and since i started using memorex,i havnt ruined 1 cd.now,all my video cd,s are on memorex cd/rw and i havnt ruined another disk since i started using this brand.so,i suggest you try this,memorex cd/rw platinum,part number 3202-3156,i just bought 40 at staples for 10.00 a 10 pack.

-- todd (tcarta@hotmail.com), January 19, 2001.

its not rally a problem with your vcd. Its the Apex player. I have this player as well and i only have it as a back up player as it is not well made. the fastforward and rewind on it pretty much suck. However what might help you is if you have the "pbc" off this way you can use the time search and get to your clips this way

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), January 19, 2001.