creating cd-plus / cd-extra?

[housepig]

I have an audio disc I'm putting out that includes some short films, in quicktime format. I've put together a web-page interface to select the videos, so I'm almost good to go.

the problem I'm having is that I keep making test discs, and every player I check them in sees a silent track 1 (where the data is) and plays it. my understanding of these, and in fact all the ones I've got, the player skips the data and goes straight to the audio.

any suggestions? first off, this is driving me nuts, and secondly, time is getting tight - I'm going to have to ship a master disc off later this week.

FWIW, I've got Wavelab 4, Nero 5 & 6 and Vegas 4, and I think I have some other burning software kicking around if need be.

any links / info / tips / suggestions appreciated.

[Kurt S]

The problem is that CD Extra and CD Plus are two different formats. CD Plus will put the data file (in your case, the videos) at the beginning of the CD. You need to use the CD Extra option In Nero. CD Extra will actually create two sessions and put the data in the second session. Stand-alone CD/DVD players won't read the second session so it is invisable. You will get a split window on the left side. Drag the audio files to the lower window and put the video files in the upper window. Then burn.

[housepig]

Kurt -

figured that out after I posted. the problem with the way Nero defaults on CD-Extra, it creates two folders that I didn't want in the root directory.

for anyone else interested, here's a way around it (courtesy an answer on another forum) :

- burn your audio tracks as an Audio CD in Nero. Do NOT finalize the disc.
- open a new CD-Rom (ISO) project, and drag in your data.
- select "No Multisession"
- under the ISO tab, select Mode 2/XA.
- burn the disc, finalizing it this time.

you will get a warning stating that the cd-rom data already burned to the disc will not be readable in a cd rom (which is okay, since it was audio data). click okay and proceed with the burn.

end result - CD-Extra with audio, data, and no Nero default folders.

[Kurt S]

Housepig, That's the way I used to do it in the early versions of Nero before it had to option to make CD Extra discs. The later versions of Nero 5 and the first few versions of 6 worked fine for me. I haven't tried to make a CD Extra lately with Nero, I wonder if it is a glitch. I'll have a go at making one later today to see what's up.

[eppik]

I'm trying to do the same thing but am attempting to make the DATA session cross-platform too. So far, I've had nothing but trouble & coasters.

Nero can create the CD-EXTRA for PC without a hitch but trying to get this to work on a MAC has been impossible so far. I'm trying an app called MacImage to create the hybrid ISO and I suppose that will work, but with Nero (6) it seems that once the first (i.e. Audio) session is written, Nero cannot pick up from there and accept an ISO file for the DATA session. If someone can correct me on this, I'm looking for a solution. The CD-Extra function in Nero certainly doesn't do it.