Adding more photo to a VCD

[ThiQTran]

Does anyone know of a software that lets you create a VCD and allows you to add more pictures to the CD later? The software that I'm using requires a blank CD-R, CD-RW. Thanks for any info.

Thi

[vitualis]

What you are asking for is not possible so naturally there are no programs that can do it.

Regards.

[ThiQTran]

Thanks. I kind of suprise that DVD format seems a little rigid compare to data CD. Is it true for a real DVD writer also?

Thi

[Raiderxxx]

Does anyone know of a software that lets you create a VCD and allows you to add more pictures to the CD later? The software that I'm using requires a blank CD-R, CD-RW. Thanks for any info.

Thi

What is the software u use to burn photo and create as VCD?

[ThiQTran]

I have tried OnDVD, Nero, Pinnacle Express. I'm new to the whole VCD thing. It's interesting. I need a bigger harddisk!

Thi

[bachkhoa]

All burning softwares will CLOSE DISK after burning a VCD disc, that's why you can't add anything else (another session) to the disc. You have no option for CLOSE SESSION.

[vitualis]

You have no option because the S/VCD must be closed.

Because of how a VCD is physically structured, it is impossible to make a multisession VCD. VCDs are not CD-ROMs.

Regards.

[RFontenot]

It's not impossible to create a multsession CD with a VCD session, it's just impossible to add pictures to an existing VCD track.

The Dazzle OnDVD software takes JPEGs and converts them into hi-res MPEG stills, burns them to a CD, then stores the original JPEGs on the same CD.

It does this by creating a multisession CD. The first session is for the VCD tracks and the second session is for the JPEG tracks.

If you pop the disk into a computer and use Explorer, you can only view a few files, one of which is an extraction utility to extract the JPEG files from another track in the second session. You can't see any of the VCD files in the first session, nor can you see any of the JPEG files.

If you pop the disk a DVD player, a VCD slideshow of all of the pictures start. The delay time for each picture can be set prior to burning the CD. All of the pictures appear to have the correct aspect ratio, but there is no correction of overscan, so you lose the edges of the pictures.

The software does a good job of converting hundreds of JPEGS into hi-res VCD MPEG stills. Unfortunately, the ITEM*.DAT files in the SEGMENT directory appear to be non-standard. I haven't had much luck in extracting anything using either ISOBuster or VCDGear.

RF

[vitualis]

What I meant is that you can't create a COMPLIANT multisession VCD (which means that you can't create a multisession VCD).

If what you've described is true with the Dazzle software, it is completely bizarre as I'm sure you know that you can store ordinary files in the filesystem of a VCD...

As for extracting the segment items, have you tried using VCDXBUILD?

Regards.

[mzellers]

I have a Dazzle OnDVD, but I can't get my Phillips DVD player to read it -- it just blinks DISK ERR at me . Since I can play other VCDs I've burned, using either Easy CD Creator or with VCDEasy/CDRDao, I think there may be a problem with the Dazzle software, but so far their tech support has been less than helpful.