What is the best VCD creation software?

[alpha39]

Title says it all. What should I spend some money on?

[Greg12]

apparently their r some good freeware ones.

TSVC

VCD creator


look in the tools section

[vitualis]

It depends on what you mean exactly by "best".

IMHO, in terms of absolute number of features and flexibility, it is VCDImager +/- a GUI (e.g., TSCV or VCD Easy). A GUI helps simplifies things for the beginner or if you are creating a simple VCD. Manually authoring the XML cannot be beaten in terms of flexibility and power: http://www.geocities.com/medinotes/vcd

In terms of features + newbie friendly/easy to use interface, VideoPack 5 is getting good comments.

Regards.

[dinesh]

I fully agree with vitualis. If you are ready to experiment and get things done exactly the way you want,there is nothing to beat the flexibility and power that an XML gives you.
Here is what I do. I use TSCV to build my preliminary XML by loading the mpgs, etc. I save the XML and manually "fine-tune" edit the XML, add new MPEG stills(<SEGMENT> tag is not generated in TSCV ), set independent wait times, timeout manually etc. Save the XML, bring it to the Tools tab of TSCV and (vcdx)build it. I use a virtual CD ROM drive to test the bin/cue with PowerDVD. If everything works fine and as desired, burn the image to CD. Else, just rework on the XML and rebuild it.

[sridhar]

hi

i burned vcd with nero 5.5
it is played back in all vcd players but

it is not played back by any dvd players

one dvd gives NO PLAY error in display

one dvd gives ERROR error in display

i refered there manuals they have mentioned that the region no: is not matching how to
solve this problem.

pls guide me for the same.

[vitualis]

Your most likely problem is that your DVD players weren't designed to read CD-R/W media. If it doesn't explicitly say that your DVD player can read CD-R/W discs in your owner's manual, it is was wasn't designed to do so -- and not surprisingly, it doesn't do it well.

Usually you can still get discs to work, but you will have to experiment with different brands of CD-R media. Often CD-RW work better in these circumstances.

Regards.