VCD with MPEGs and IMAGES???

[cellarboy]

Can anyone tell me the simple way to make a VCD (or does it have to be SVCD?) with MPEGs and IMAGES mixed on the same disc? i.e. a mix of home videos and digital stills.
I am using Nero 5.5 and TMPEGenc.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: cellarboy on 2001-09-12 14:33:23 ]</font>

[Vejita-sama]

Sure not problem, I do this all the time. What you need to do is encode each movie and each still as it's own mpg file. Then just put them in the order you want as chapters. I use TMPGenc and TSCV to do this.

1) Open TMPGenc and encode all my files. For movies, just encode as normal. For stills, just open the picture, and encode it to a mpg file too. I can also make stills by choosing only one fram under source range.

2) Open TSCV. Click on the stills tab, and choose 'patch MPEG stream from 0xE0 to 0xE1' and convert all your stills. This converts your still files from mpg movies to mpg stills.

3) Either load everything up in TSCV (like to make menus), create bin/cue file and burn. OR use nero et al. to arrange everything.

You can find TSCV at http://www.ttool.org (read the guides if you're not familar with it). TSCV can do a lot of ofter stuff: make motion/still menus, add seamless chapters to your mpg videos, enable << >> or pressing #'s on remote to jump to next chapter, etc. etc.

However, TSCV is beta and the more things you try to add the more problems you could have. So if you need any additional help either ask here or on the TSCV forum at ttool.org