I have a question on full white book conformance of VCDImager. My portable VCD player will only play commercial VCDs without stuttering & jumping & I'd like to attempt to author a fully white book complient VCD.

The Philips VCD authoring would do this except I can't burn the image without Gear or WinOnCD, neither of which I'd like to buy purely for the purpose of experimenting. I would, however be interested to know how close to full white book complience VCDImager & CDRDAO comes, particularly with regards to scrambled sectors in CD-ROM XA. Why do they scramble the sectors like this?

I use TMPGenc & a Hauppauge PVR-USB2 capture box & use VCDEasy to front end VCDImager/CDRDOA. The Hauppauge seems to give smoother replay than TMPGenc which seems to imply that there's something non-standard about TMPGenc.

Is full white book complience something that could be achieved with VCDImager?

Best Regards

PN

Quoting from https://www.videohelp.com/VCD2TK_Burn.htm

Sector Formats

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There are two reasons why other burner programs cannot read or burn a Toolkit image. They either do not support the White Book sector formats used by the Toolkit image, or they do not support the White Book sector formats correctly.



Many VCD programs only read and write the Yellow Book Mode 2 sector format. Complete VCD 2.0 compliance requires the use of White Book Mode 2 sector formats, which are slightly different, and can be scrambled.



The image Toolkit creates is known as a CD-i Bridge image. Within this image are tracks that will use one of the following sector formats:



CD-ROM XA Mode 2/Form 1 scrambled
CD-ROM XA Mode 2/Form 2 scrambled
CD-DA


As far as I know, only WinOnCD and Gear can read and burn scrambled Mode 2 Form 1/2 sectors. Nero 5.2.2.4 supposedly can read and burn scrambled Mode 2 sectors, but I could never get it to work. As for your favorite burner software, you’ll just have to try it and see.



If you want to know more about sector formats, try these links:



http://www.disctronics.co.uk/



http://www.icdia.org/faq/cdifaq3.html - 3.6