Whats a good burning program for svcd's?

[AssAsiN]

Just wondering what everybody uses to burn their svcd's

Thanx

[pibble]

Nero. But there are other programs that will work just fine. It also depends on whether you need to author an SVCD disc image or if you just want to burn an existing image.

[mats.hogberg]

Authoring and burning are two completely separate tasks. Nero is good for burning. Not for authoring. VCDEasy is good for authoring, and, if it can burn at all on your system, quite good at burning too. Neros advantage is (besides that it can do other stuff than (S)VCD) that it's more compatible with various hardware/software combinations.

/Mats

[AssAsiN]

Cool thanx, ive just used vcdeasy and if i need to nero, whats the difference between authoring and burning?

[pibble]

Authoring basically includes everything you need to do to get to the point of burning. A CD/DVD burner can only burn a disc image. It doesn't know anything about the SVCD format. Authoring refers to taking your media sources (audio + video) and compiling them into a disc image in the (Super) Video CD format. Burning refers to the act of actually writing that image to a blank disc.

Most (S)VCDs are simple -- there will be only one video track and no menu. In that case, authoring is pretty simple. With a program like Nero, you just click File, New and select SVCD, and add your video file(s). It also has a simple menu generation module, but be warned that the menus may not function with all DVD players.

Nero doesn't let you get very sophisticated with your SVCDs, though it's great for most people's uses. A really advanced author might want to use separate programs to create the SVCD disc images, and then use a burning program like Nero (or a thousand others like it) to burn the BIN/CUE image.

[AssAsiN]

Thanx for that, it has got rid of the confusion between the two