Unusual question I know

[marianne]

So...please tell me which program you feel is the best and more reliable for burning VCD`s with Windows XP........

[cmacleo]

I have no problem with a range of programs, including
1) my preferred Nero - works perfectly but a simple VCD structure
2) VCDEasy - a bit painful to use for menus but flexible.
3) Easy CD Creator fine but I don't own it
4) CloneCD - great for copying CD's - main one I use for VCDs
5) native VCDImage for most flexibility in creating VCD, but you have to edit your own XML, and then use CDRDAO for burning CD

Note I use Windows XP and 2000 and both work equally fine (all latest updates via Windows Update installed and latest version of programs, except CloneCD)

[markums2k]

Success with both Nero and Roxio CD Creator (note: do NOT attempt to install an Adaptec version of CD Creator on XP... bad things happen).

Haven't tried much else. I have noticed that a lot of the freeware burning ware mentioned in the guides here hasn't worked. Something about the drivers I have installed. I really don't feel like messing with it, since the above named software works fine.

When it comes to XP, just think: Windows 2000 stability mixed with Windows ME device compatiblity... almost.

And to contradict myself almost immediately, there's a general rule of "if it works with Windows 2000, it will then definitely work with XP".

Both theories fail me on a pretty regular basis, so I probably shoulda just ended this post a few paragraphs ago. Oh well...

[Mirror_Image]

Ulead Video Studio 6 (with both of the released patches) works great in XP to open my MPEG-2 cable TV captures and edit/encode/add menu and chapter points/burn VCDs (or SVCDs).

UVS6 is also ideal for me because I am extremely lazy and am thus drawn to integrated applications, rather than juggle an assortment of different apps, even if I have to sacrifice a smidgen of quality as the price of my sloth.

UVS5 (bundled with my vid card; UVS6 was a $50 to upgrade from UVS5) gave me trouble now and then under98SE, UVS6/98SE was better, but UVS6/XP has made me a happy camper, with satisfactory quality and pretty fast encoding time (~2x for VCD, ~4x for SVCD), and has not froze up or crashed (or even made a coaster) yet.