Nero's 99 photo VCD limit ??

[tko]

I have read many people claiming to have created 600 file+ photo CD's in Nero simply by dragging and dropping. I've also read that the limit is 99 files.

Interestingly, my 9 month old Nero appeared to work OK w/500 files (even though I only tried it once). However, I upgraded because it didn't work w/my brand new TDK CDRW. The upgrade would only do 99 files! So it appears that both reports may be true.

So what's the story? Is there a trick or special configuration to get Nero to put more than 99 pictures on a CD? Why would one version of Nero do this when a very minor revision later it wouldn't? Makes no sense to me.

[tko]

PS - why didn't searching the boards work with "99" - there are quite a few posts on the 99 file limit so I thought seaching for "99" would return them all - I guess the search feature doesn't recognise numbers?

By the way, I tried every combination of settings in Nero - menu's on/off, compliant/noncompliant, etc. still no luck with the latest Nero. Yet I know people have been very sucessful with some versions of Nero.

[snowmoon]

VCD's are track based... CD's generally only allow 99 tracks ( it's a limitation in the format )

Photo CD's might be different, Photo montages encoded to video would be different, but VCD is limited to 99 tracks.

[snowmoon]

Hmm.. nero .14 appears to be adding them as segment items, not tracks so there should not be a limit.

Weird.

[vitualis]

The segment-item limitation is 1980, which is WAY more than enough if you plan on putting your original high quality files in the filesystem as well.

Nero's limitation is a software design limitation...

Regards.