Nero Questions Re: Menu's and Formats (VCD/SVCD)

[UnevenGround]

Hi guys. I'm new to the forum and have already got two posts going!

I made up a VCD last night of some of my favourite guitar player clips and I created a menu in Nero. Everything seemed fine, but in the end, 3 problems turned up.

1) The AVI files I included turned up with no sound. I've posted a query about that in the coversion section.

2) The menu isn't really a menu. It's 2 pages and has all the colour scheme and such I told it to. I can go between the two pages using the skip buttons, but I can't scroll through the selections. On the first page I can push the number of the selction I want 9 and under and it goes there. Otherwise it just gives a little error Icon. Can anyone help me out? My version of Nero is 5.5

3) How can I tell if I'm burning a VCD or an SVCD?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

J

[vitualis]

VCD menus are not the same as DVD menus. For one thing, they don't support overlay graphics like on a DVD menu. They also don't support the arrow/cursor keys on a DVD remote.

There is a way to make a pseudo-highlight selection menu and I think that adam make a guide somewhere. However, it seems that you are a beginner, so I suggest that you try some simpler things first.

Nero is not a very good VCD authoring program for menus. It is much too simplistic and you won't be able to do much.

The best way to author S/VCDs is to use the VCDImager system. There are now a few great GUIs that use VCDImager as the backend including the fantastic VCDEasy: http://www.vcdeasy.org

You will be able to make both menus and chapters with this proggy.

To understand how the underlying system works (if you want to be an "advanced" user -- i.e., author your own XML descripter files), then try:
http://www.vcdimager.org
http://www.michaeltam.com

Best of luck.

Regards.