need vcd help

[teambrown]

if you read please post if you have an answer! thanks in advance

the main menu on vcdeasy lets you burn bin files. now if i click burn im assumin it burns straight to cd. if i dont click burn and creat a bin file i can later go to the cdrdao section and burn the bin file to the cd. so overall the bin file is whats played in the dvdplayer and not an mpeg file. if you know the answers im grateful!

[cybermage26]

the bin file is just all of the information needed to play the VCD, including the MPG-1 file. The actual MPG file is what is played yes. But the stuff inside the bin file is needed too.
Im not really sure what your trying to ask here..?

"so overall the bin file is whats played in the dvdplayer and not an mpeg file. if you know the answers im grateful!" thats not really a question, you pretty much are answering your own question hehe.

[dphirschler]

Think of the bin file as a CD image.


Darryl

[teambrown]

ahh! see i was under the impression taht the mpg was all that was needed to be put on a cd to play in a dvdplayer. so on vcdeasy i would add all the mpg clips i want to burn and then select the binoutput file as a temp directory? or is that my cdburner dir.?

[teambrown]

if anyone has read my prev. post i am new to burning vcds. i use the program vcdeasy so if anyone else uses that particular program i would be extremely grateful for their assistance.

[dphirschler]

VCDeasy makes it real easy. Just click the "burn" option and hit "GO" (or is it "Start"?). VCDeasy then masters a bin file and burns it to your CDR. Just sit back and watch it go. Or you could just let it make a bin (along with a cue) file and burn it later

Darryl

[teambrown]

so thats why it makes a xxxxx.cue and a xxxxx.forburnercue files?

[JuGGaLoGoD]

No, it makes a .bin and .cue file. I don't know why the hell it does this. I dont' like VcdEasy(whatever it's called , it won't burn for me, just make's a .bin and .cue file then errors. Lol. I got Nero to work finally and it's being rather nice to me. So until Nero start's messing up, I'll stick with Nero.

[dinesh]

A bin file is a CD image file. The Cue file is a text file and is a sort of Table of Contents/Index defining the tracks,mode and it references the bin file.
If you load Daemon-Tools you can open the cue file and this will simulate a Virtual CD ROM drive on your machine. This is done by treating the bin image just like a CDROM.This is similar to loading your CD in a drive.You can use this to test your VCD behaviour before you burn.
If you have problems burning bin/cue files with CDRDAO, use CDRWIN.Open the cue file and burn the image.
Some suggest doing a disk copy from Virtual CDROM to CD Burner. I dont personally recommend it as it failed for me.

[vitualis]

Someone mentioned up this thread that they thought that all that was needed for a VCD was the MPEG file... This is NOT the case. A VCD is NOT a CD-ROM with an MPEG file which is why you need to use a burning/authoring proggy that knows about VCDs and knows what it is doing.

CUE/BIN images don't burn properly with Nero because Nero is screwed up (historically anyway) with its support for the CUE/BIN format. For an article on burning CUE/BIN images, read here: http://www.geocities.com/medinotes/vcd/burning_cuebin_images.html

Regards.