Creating an additional video on existing VCD

[stevejordan]

I have successfully created a video on VCD and played it on my DVD player. I am using Pinnacle DV v8.

However I have tried to add another video to the same VCD. It will not pley - it plays the first one in a continual loop.

Is it possible to add further videos to an already burnt VCD?

[mats.hogberg]

Nope. It's not possible to add anything to an already burnt CD. But you could extract the MPG from the VCD with VCDGear, then either join this with some other MPG, or author your VCD with some app that allows you to add more than 1 mpeg stream, like VCDEasy.

/Mats

[stevejordan]

Even if the CD has plenty of room left?

[KingJohn]

Even if the CD has plenty of room left?

A VCD uses several tracks, data in tack 1 and the mpeg stream in track 2

If you made a VCD with 2 mpegs, the disk would have 3 tracks, tracks 2 and 3 would have the mpegs.

So now that you have made the VCD you cannot add the 3 tracks, because the data track has already been written it it is that which contains all the information about the disk.

In order to be able to add the third track, you would need to have the disk as a multi session VCD Even though there is a good chance your PC could play it, there is not much chance a DVD would play it. AND you would have a heck of a time trying to get an authoring program to do it...

There is less chance if you closed the disk after you made the fist VCD Which has to be done on VCD disks anyway

Disks are sooooooo cheap...... don't loose any sleep worrying that you have room on the CD...

Copy the .dat file back onto your hard drive and drop it into your authoring program along with the other mpeg you want on the disk. Most authoring programs will except the .dat as it is without the need to do anything with it.