Beat 2 death: Fast Forward in VCD

[NateDogg]

I know that questions of this type have been asked before but I have never seen MY version of the question....so here goes:

When I burn VCD's with the newest Nero they come out with full ability to be fast forwarded and rewound.....but there is limited menu abilities.
When I burn VCD's using VCDEasy they come out great looking with menus and chapters..........but if I Fast Forward the chapter goes back to the beginning.

I looked and the only difference I could find w/ the NERO VCD and VCDEasy VCD was a file called SCANDATA.DAT under the EXT folder. From reading other posts this logically seems the file that allows Fast Forward-ability. But when I go to add this file to the EXT folder under my VCDEasy project it says its forbidden. Anyone know how I can get the Fast Forward ability from NERO along with the great menus and chapters from VCDEasy?

Important info:
I'm using TMPGEnc to encode the MPG's
"Update Scan Data Offsets" is checked in VCDEasy
I have an APEX-AD-1200 (cheap I know but the NERO VCD works fine)
I'm authoring my own XML......heres the info if relevant
<?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>DMB_WOODSTOCK</album-id>
<volume-count>1</volume-count>
<volume-number>1</volume-number>
<restriction>0</restriction>
</info>

<pvd>
<volume-id>DMB_WOODSTOCK</volume-id>
<system-id>CD-RTOS CD-BRIDGE</system-id>
<application-id>CDI/CDI_VCD.APP;1</application-id>
<preparer-id/>
<publisher-id>NateDogg</publisher-id>
</pvd>

<filesystem>
<folder>
<name>CDI</name>
<file src="C:\Program Files\VCDEasy\Cdi\Cdi_imag.rtf" format="mixed">
<name>CDI_IMAG.RTF</name>
</file>
<file src="C:\Program Files\VCDEasy\Cdi\cdi_text.fnt">
<name>CDI_TEXT.FNT</name>
</file>
<file src="C:\Program Files\VCDEasy\Cdi\cdi_vcd.app">
<name>CDI_VCD.APP</name>
</file>
</folder>
</filesystem>

<segment-items>
<segment-item src="C:\!!DMB Woodstock 99\menu1.mpg" id="seg-ss"/>
</segment-items>

<sequence-items>
<sequence-item src="C:\!!DMB Woodstock 99\DMB-Woodstock99(VCD).mpg" id="seq-track1">
<entry id="chapter01">0</entry>
<entry id="chapter02">138.3</entry>
<entry id="chapter03">733.5</entry>
<entry id="chapter04">1435</entry>
<entry id="chapter05">1760</entry>
<entry id="chapter06">2236</entry>
<entry id="chapter07">2732</entry>
<entry id="chapter08">3064</entry>
<entry id="chapter09">3535</entry>
</sequence-item>
</sequence-items>

<pbc>

<selection id="select-ss">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<wait>30</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="seg-ss"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter01">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-ss"/>
<next ref="select-chapter02"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter02">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter01"/>
<next ref="select-chapter03"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>

</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter03">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter02"/>
<next ref="select-chapter04"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter04">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter03"/>
<next ref="select-chapter05"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter05">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter04"/>
<next ref="select-chapter06"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter06">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter05"/>
<next ref="select-chapter07"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter07">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter06"/>
<next ref="select-chapter08"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter08">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter07"/>
<next ref="select-chapter09"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

<selection id="select-chapter09">
<bsn>1</bsn>
<prev ref="select-chapter08"/>
<next ref="select-ss"/>
<return ref="select-ss"/>
<timeout ref="select-ss"/>
<wait>0</wait>
<loop jump-timing="immediate">1</loop>
<play-item ref="chapter09"/>
<select ref="select-chapter01"/>
<select ref="select-chapter02"/>
<select ref="select-chapter03"/>
<select ref="select-chapter04"/>
<select ref="select-chapter05"/>
<select ref="select-chapter06"/>
<select ref="select-chapter07"/>
<select ref="select-chapter08"/>
<select ref="select-chapter09"/>
</selection>

</pbc>
</videocd>


THANK YOU!!

[agzz]

i aslo had that prob when i tried VCDEasy so i use TSCV now, no prob.

[xeromark]

Does this have anything to do with PBC (Play Back Control)?

[vitualis]

You may have a problem with how your MPEG-1 file is multiplexed. Nero to my knowledge will remux source files which may be the difference.

I suggest that you try remultiplexing your source files with either bbMPEG or TMPGEnc (make sure you change the setting to "MPEG-1 Video-CD" rather than "Auto".

Regards.

[NateDogg]

Oh man I'm pulling my hair out.....here's my status so far.

I demuxed in TMPGEnc and remuxed also in TMPGEnc using "MPEG-1 Video CD" and it didn't work. (Still won't FF without going back to the beginning of the chapter.)

I demuxed in TMPGEnc and remuxed using bbMPEG and it didn't work. (Still won't FF without going back to the beginning of the chapter.)

I try to write a CUE/BIN using TSCV and it gives me an error in another language....(E/A-Fehler 32) and I don't know what it means.

I can't help but think that there is another answer. When I burn my VCD compliant MPEG's using NERO it Fast Forwards GREAT!!!!!.....but that program obviously has limited menu and chapter availability. But when I burn the BIN/CUE (created w/ VCD Easy) using NERO I get not FF ability. It doesn't seem to me that NERO has the time to REMUX a file that it's burning to VCD.

The only possible thing that I can think is that VCD's created using NERO have that extra file in the EXT folder called SCANDATA.DAT. How can I fix this so that my discs have this file?!?!

I'd give my left testicle for an answer that works! Well.......maybe my right one! :)