trying to solve a VCD editing problem

[mavvvv]

Hi Guys and Gals....

I had this problem which bugged me for a while....

I bought a Karaoke vcd (VCD A), which one of the song (music08.DAT)had problem which jammed halfway thru.

As I loved that song very much, I managed to find another different karaoke (VCD B), which had that song with no problem at all in it.

Now here's problem come in.... I like to make a new VCD which is everything (with it menu page )in VCD A untouched except that I will overwrite the spoilt (music08.DAT) with the good one from VCD B....

I tried using Nero burn to burn VCD A to a CD-RW disc then try to rewrite it with music08.DAT from VCD B however was unable to do so......

Then I tried to copy everything of VCD to my desktop and overwrite music08.DAT, and burn it to a disc...but it cant be read in the VCDplayer due to the format is CD-ROM and not VCD....

Can anyone guide me to make the prefect ver for my VCDplayer to read the disc....

Thx in advance~~

[AlanHK]

One way that should work is to use VCDGear. (Freeware).

First get all your music tracks from both discs into a folder on your hard disc, using VCDGear's "dat to MPEG" function. Give the files appropriate simple names so you know which is which.

Then use its"video-CD" mode (select VCD, not SVCD), choose "MPEG to cue/bin" to select all these MPEGs and then create the image file (as a cue and bin). Use Nero to burn the image.

This won't give you a menu, but you'll be able to skip from track to track with the usual remote buttons.

[mavvvv]

Thx for the tip AlanHK, but I would really like to have menu too...

hope anyone out there can help me out. Thx~

[Alex_ander]

After you convert .dat's to .mpegs you can use VCDEasy (free version of it can be found on this site) for authoring a new VCD with menu and chapters.