Help! Experts in VCDEasy!!

mkaiser · Member Joined: 06 Nov 2002

I used VCDEasy to create a VCD with a main menu still (with sound) and 2 video clips.

Here are my problems...

1. When first loaded, the main menu shows up on the screen and the music starts to play (... no problem there) but when the music stops playing the menu doesn't loop back to redisplay the menu and play the music again... it just sits there without sound.

2. When the first video clip plays and it finishes, it returns to the main menu and plays the music (... no problem there) but when it comes to the second video clip, it plays and it finishes... but when it returns to the main menu, it doesn't display the menu still (pic) but it plays the music.

I've tried the VCD on my pc with PowerDVD and it plays the way it's supposed to (but then again pc players are more foregiving). But when I played on ATI's Video CD Player each clip plays twice before returning to the main menu and I get the same problems described in "1" and "2" above.

This is part of what I have on my xml file (I took the paths out for better readiability)...

<segment-items>
<segment-item src="VCD JinRoh - 2.mpg" id="Segment-0001"/>
<segment-item src="JINROH~1.MMD" id="music-0"/>
</segment-items>
<sequence-items>
<sequence-item src="Gundam W Waltz - Trailer (MainConcept).mpg"
id="Sequence-0002-01">
<default-entry id="Chapter-0002-01"/>
</sequence-item>
<sequence-item src="Wild ARMS Twilight Venom - Opening.mpg"
id="Sequence-0003-01">
<default-entry id="Chapter-0003-01"/>
</sequence-item>
</sequence-items>
<pbc>
<selection id="Selection-000"> 
<bsn>1</bsn>
<next ref="Selection-000a"/> 
<timeout ref="Selection-000a"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="Segment-0001"/> 
<select ref="Selection-001"/> 
<select ref="Selection-002"/> 
</selection>
<selection id="Selection-000a"> 
<bsn>1</bsn>
<wait>1</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">3</loop>
<play-item ref="music-0"/> 
<select ref="Selection-001"/> 
<select ref="Selection-002"/> 
</selection>
<selection id="Selection-001"> 
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="Selection-001"/> 
<next ref="Selection-000"/> 
<return ref="Selection-000"/> 
<timeout ref="Selection-000"/> 
<wait>1</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="Sequence-0002-01"/> 
<select ref="Selection-001"/> 
</selection>
<selection id="Selection-002"> 
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="Selection-002"/> 
<next ref="Selection-000"/> 
<return ref="Selection-000"/> 
<timeout ref="Selection-000"/> 
<wait>1</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="Sequence-0003-01"/> 
<select ref="Selection-002"/> 
</selection>
<endlist id="Selection-end" rejected="true"/>

I made this as a test VCD (it has two anime trailers) to try VCDEasy on my Toshiba SD-2800 DVD player. I've never had problems playing VCD's created in both Ulead DVD MovieFactory and Nero. I'm trying to use VCDEasy because you have more control over the content.

Anyway, here's some info on the files too....

VCD Jin Roh...mpg is a mpeg still created with VCDEasy

Gundam W...mpg is a mpeg file created with MainConcept.
video rate: 1182kbps
audio rate: 192 kbps

Wild ARMS...mpg is a mpeg file created with Panasonic MPEG-1
video rate: 1182 kbps
audio rate: 192 kbps

JINROH~1.MMD is the music file created with Panasonic and muxed with
Toshiba's ToolKit
audio rate: 224 kbps

Note-->Now, I never had trouble using these video/audio rates (as they equal 1374 kbps) so I don't think it has anything to do.

I also used nero (the latest version on their page) to burn the cue/bin image and I'm using WinXP.

Anyone please help... I feel so confined by Ulead DVD MovieFactory and Nero.

Thanks

mkaiser · Member Joined: 06 Nov 2002

oops! I meant to say "Philip's ToolKit" instead of "Toshiba's ToolKit"...

sorry!

banquo · Member Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: UK

I wouldn't consider myself an expert but you could try these suggestions.

1) You don't appear to have assigned a timeout reference to your music track, you need to set it either back to the still or just back to itself would also work.

2) I have encountered some playback issues with my Standalone with VCD stills created with the mjpeg tools included in VCD Easy when you set the wait time to 0. Either experiment with introducing a wait time of 1 or 2 seconds for the still before playing the music, or recreate the still with the Philips Toolkit instead.

Hope this helps