PC & MAC = NO GO?

[pwygant]

I have a dilemma. My family is MAC based and I am PC based. We are sharing family VCD's w/ each other and need to know hot to do one simple thing: Share movies back and forth through our FTP server!

If everyone was pc based we could utilize CDRwin and extract file and send bin & cue files to each other. Now, since MAC is based with mounting images, toast, sit and all these formats I realy don't understand, does anyone know a way my family can extract bin & cue files on their end or if I can use some mac software on my end or vice versa. Makes sense?

P.

[NiklasFalk]

I've been burning on a Mac since -98 and have used Toast in different versions. I have never tried burning VCD's with Toast though.
My suggestion for you would be to send the mpg's instead of a CD-image.

Wait a minute, I have a .bin/.cue (downloaded from unknown origin) on my mac server and Roxio Toast 5.1.2 seams to understand what the file is.
Trying to burn a SVCD from a .bin file.......
No luck Toast doesn't care about the cue file so there is no index.
My Pioneer 444 will not play the disk.

Send the mpg's or the disks through the snail-mail.

[pwygant]

OK.. Let me rephrase...

If someone has the VCD or SVCD already burned on a disk and that person is MAC based -> How can that person make a copy of that disk by using bin & cue or any other format so that a pc based person like me can make an exact copy of that disk without utilizing snail mail.

Hanger du med... en exact kopia av disken...

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[major]

As NiklasFalk suggested, the best option is probably to extract the MPG files from the S/VCDs and share them in your server. To extract the MPG from an already burned S/VCD with a mac you need Astarte CD-Copy to copy the MPG tracks and then VCDGear (RAW-MPG conversion). When you got the MPG files there is software on PC and Mac to reburn them as VCD/SVCDs.

[Pen8]

I don’t have my Mac with me at the moment, so I can’t try this with a VCD, but I have successfully created .img (disc image) files in toast and burnt them in Nero. When you are using Nero go to-----File then Burn Image. If you use the All Files option you will be able to load the .img file. I use a Mac at home and a Mac & PC at work. I have had great success creating DVD images in toast and burning them in PrimoDVD & Nero. Hope this helps, if not, I would use majors’ suggestion

[pwygant]

SOLUTION!

Thanxs for all the advise however, I finally cracked my head against the wall and sat down and did it myself.

Here it goes...

The object is for a MAC user to provide an "already burned" SVCD disc image to a format that a PC user can burn and view on a DVD player.

I wanted to make a quick comment on the last post. Yes, it would have been easy to just do an image and burn that in NERO in Data Mode 2, however, that doesn't work. The reason it doesn't work is ,I think, due to issues w/ Tracks and lead-ins on a stand alone DVD player. Also, my DVD player just sat on PLAY and didn't get t5he instruction to continue.

I tried at first to burn the image and the MPEG file (avsq.mpg) works if you play it on the computer.

(Who wants to view an SVCD on a computer if you have a nice TV?) 8)

The solution I found has to do with the fact that when you burn a Bin & Cue file in either Fireburner or CDRwin, it utilizes two tracks. One that is a lead in and one the plays the SVCD.

Solution...

My friend is using Toast Titanium 5.1.2. I had him copy the disc and save it as a Disc image and then choose save as w/ the .bin extension. After I have that bin file I can do one of two things: Write your own Cue or use a generic cue file (other SVCD) and change the name of the direction were the cue goes to: (File" etc)

Finally, use your favorite burning prog, preferably fireburner, load the CUE and the two tracks of the bin gets loaded and the SVCD works...

Gezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...