Wont Play 3rd trck??????(VCDImager Problem)

[NeWcS]

Im making a disk with 3 mpg's.

1) The Intro menu I made

2) The Movie It self

3) And another mpg that says "Please insert next disk"

My prob is it wont show the last part. I tried doing a small video but it only plays half of it know matter howw long I made it. I also tried loading a .jpg into TMPG and convereting it to mpg but when I do that it just shows track 3 as a black screen. Am I doing something wrong???

Thanx

[NeWcS]

Bump^

[vitualis]

Just how exactly did you make that last MPEG?

And what are you using to author your VCD?

Regards.

[NeWcS]

I used Swish to make it then saved it to avi then converted it to mpg. I also made a still image in PSP then used TMPEG to convert it to mpg.

Im using cdrwin.

[vitualis]

So that last MPEG is encoded with TMPGEnc? How long is it (> 4 seconds)?

Furthermore, did you use the default VCD settings in TMPGEnc?

Regards.

[NeWcS]

No I encode everything with SeVCD. The video in question was 10sec. then I did a still that was 1sec.

Thanx

[vitualis]

Okay, you haven't given me the answer that I need...

MPEG number 3 (your last one which isn't playing properly) -- how was that made (step by step)? How long is it?

Regards.

[NeWcS]

It was made by me using Swish(Like macromedia flash), I then saved the file as an avi, then I converted it to mpg w/ TMPEG using the SeVCD tamplete(NTSCFilm).

This is the same way I did the first of the 3 which works fine.

I also made a picture in PSP then used encoded w/ TMPG using normal VCD templete.

Thanx for all your help thus far and if im leving out anything please let me know.

Thanx again

[NeWcS]

And its about 10sec long.

[NeWcS]

Also the 10sec. vid will only play for half of the lengh of the video. And the still image only shows a black screen.

[vitualis]

Okay.

What I don't understand is exactly how that picture you made relates to MPEG #3...

Regards.

[NeWcS]

The picture I made with PSP, I then loaded the .jpg into TMPEg and encoded it to an MPG, I thought thats how you get a still image to work as a menu??

[NeWcS]

mpg#3 is a picture just encoded as mpg

[vitualis]

Ahh.....

Here is your problem... MPEG stills are in fact, not created in this fashion.

Try this:
http://www.geocities.com/medinotes/vcd/mpeg_still_images.html
http://www.vcdimager.org/guides/mpeg_still_images.html (mirror)

Follow the link to mikk's site for details on how to make it.

Regards.

[NeWcS]

I dont know If the way I did it is the best way but what I did is took a still jpg and when encoding it a added a 5sec silent track as the audio and now it works here s my xml if you see away I can do this any other way.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE videocd PUBLIC "-//GNU//DTD VideoCD//EN" "http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/videocd.dtd">

<videocd xmlns="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/1.0/" class="vcd" version="2.0">
  <info>
    <album-id></album-id>
    <volume-count>1</volume-count>
    <volume-number>1</volume-number>
    <restriction>0</restriction>
  </info>
  <pvd>
    <volume-id>VIDEOCD</volume-id>
    <system-id>CD-RTOS CD-BRIDGE</system-id>
    <application-id></application-id>
    <preparer-id/>
    <publisher-id/>
  </pvd>
  <sequence-items>
    <sequence-item src="intro.mpg" id="sequence-00"/>
    <sequence-item src="plane.mpg" id="sequence-01"/>
    <sequence-item src="nextdisk.mpg" id="sequence-02"/>
  </sequence-items>
  <pbc>
    <playlist id="lid-000">
      <next ref="lid-001"/>
      <return ref="lid-end"/>
      <wait>-1</wait>
      <autowait>0</autowait>
      <play-item ref="sequence-00"/>
    </playlist>
    <playlist id="lid-001">
      <prev ref="lid-000"/>
      <next ref="lid-002"/>
      <return ref="lid-end"/>
      <wait>5</wait>
      <autowait>0</autowait>
      <play-item ref="sequence-01"/>
    </playlist>
    <playlist id="lid-002">
      <prev ref="lid-001"/>
      <next ref="lid-end"/>
      <return ref="lid-end"/>
      <wait>-1</wait>
      <autowait>0</autowait>
      <play-item ref="sequence-02"/>
    </playlist>
    <endlist id="lid-end" rejected="true"/>
  </pbc>
</videocd>

Thanx for all your help bro~~

[vitualis]

To put up a still image, follow the links I gave you before...

You need to put the still image in the <segment-item> and you don't need to make a dummy audio file.

Regards.