Need help - Playable Audio CD and WMV file?

[Castor troy]

Hi Guys,

I really in need some help, I have been asked to create a playable CD (will playback on a CD player) but I have also been given a WMV file, so that if someone was to put this CD into their CD/DVD rom, they can access the video file.

The element I have been given are six wav tracks and a wmv file.

It’s been referred to as Video CD Master.

Any ideas?

[DB83]

What you describe is definately NOT a 'Video CD'

A more appropiate term is 'Mixed-mode' or 'Enhanced CD'

Cyberlink Power2Go can do this quite easily as it has two panels - the top one for the audio tracks and the lower one for the data as in your case the video.

I have not made one but I would imagine that if the disk is placed in a PC it will still read the audio tracks first and only be able to access the video through Explorer.

If you want something more sophisticated I imagine you would neeed some form of autorun script which could then invoke the video when the disk is inserted.

Commercial offerings tend to use Macromedia to achieve this.

[Cornucopia]

To clarify:

"VideoCD" is a specific type of Mixed-Mode CD (Track1 is Mode2Form1, Tracks2-?? are Mode2Form2, and any additional Tracks up to 99 are Audio tracks) The kind of VCD that includes audio tracks is commonly called an "AVCD".

This material shouldn't be referred to as VideoCD Master, though, because a WMV can't be directly used for the standard Mode2Form2 "MPG" or "DAT" tracks.
It could be converted and authored to such, or it could be put in a custom folder of the ISO9660/Track1 portion (with or without an autorun).

AVCDs are only marginally supported. Standard Mixed-Mode CDs (which have a Mode1 or Mode2Form1 Track1 containing the ISO9660 filesystem and your WMV, and subsequent Audio Tracks) are only slightly more supported.

"Enhanced CDs" (aka CDPlus, CDExtra) are much more fully supported, although in this Post-DVD world they are becoming less so.
These contain 2 sessions: the 1st has all the audio tracks, and the 2nd has a single data track.

To create these, you can use ImgBurn (although you have to uncheck "finalize disc" for the 1st session, and re-check it for the 2nd), although versions of Nero and Roxio have common presets for these (if you've already got one of them).

If the WMV is a standard setting in the bitrates and codecs, it should be fairly trivial to create an autorun to get WMP to play this. Usually, though, autorun is not the wonder it was advertised.

Modern PCs are set up to recognize ALL sessions, although what I have found is that they FAVOR the 1st session and whatever Mode falls in that session.

Scott

[DB83]

To clarify:

"VideoCD" is a specific type of Mixed-Mode CD (Track1 is Mode2Form1, Tracks2-?? are Mode2Form2, and any additional Tracks up to 99 are Audio tracks) The kind of VCD that includes audio tracks is commonly called an "AVCD".

This material shouldn't be referred to as VideoCD Master, though, because a WMV can't be directly used for the standard Mode2Form2 "MPG" or "DAT" tracks.
It could be converted and authored to such, or it could be put in a custom folder of the ISO9660/Track1 portion (with or without an autorun).

AVCDs are only marginally supported. Standard Mixed-Mode CDs (which have a Mode1 or Mode2Form1 Track1 containing the ISO9660 filesystem and your WMV, and subsequent Audio Tracks) are only slightly more supported.

[snip]


Scott

Would that be the multi-mode CDs that Phillips used to tout many moons ago or something quite different ?

IIRC those disks needed a special player - you could not even play them in a PC

[Cornucopia]

What you're thinking about was probably Cd-i, the cousin/forerunner to VideoCD.

Scott

[DB83]

What you're thinking about was probably Cd-i, the cousin/forerunner to VideoCD.

Scott

Ah, yes. The sands of time play some strange things on the mind. It is just that I can vaguelly remember a title - before it was issued via DVD - which I wanted but I knew I could not play it (or even rip it) and that was then descibed IIRC as CD-Video. Probably another cousin.

[Cornucopia]

"CD-Video" was another format that is similar to an Enhanced CD, but instead of a session of audio tracks and then a session of an ISO9660 data track, CD-Video has a session of LASERDISC video (which is Analog, and thus NOT compatible with any digital computer stuff) and then a session of (digital) audio tracks.

Scott