Chapters and vcds

[super-fly]

I have a lot of music videos that I hardly see and I want to burn them to a vcd. They are already mpeg1, and I was wondering if there was a way to burn them to cd so I can just hit the next chapter button on my dvd player and it will go to the next video? I have nero 5.5 and ezcd 5 if needed.

[ktnwin]

This is an easy way:
1) use TMPGEnc to cut your MPEG video into smaller MPEG video files, each containing one "song"
2) burn those MPEG files on a single CD-R as VCD
3) play that CD in a DVD player (that supports VCD), you will be able to select any song by a numeric key or skipping a song by the >> key (similar to a DVD disc).

[vitualis]

As what ktnwin said.

This is creating a multi-track VCD and is not considered true "chaptering". The tracks will almost certainly not play seemlessly from one to the next (that is, there will be a pause between tracks).

"Chaptering" refers to creating seemless playback between chapters -- this can be done with entrypoints via PBC.

Regards.

[super-fly]

what PBC? also, thank you I got it, I thought I had tried just burning the movies together, and it would just loop the first movie. my next question is, what program can I use to make a good menu. I used nero, but it always has that annoying line at the top of screen under where the heading goes, and I want to put a image as the background and write on top of it. Would it be easier to make a 1 frame mpeg1 file and add it to the image and just make it loop until I hit next chapter on the remote? that way I will know whats on the cd when it starts, but will lose the menu features.

[vitualis]

I don't know about Nero, but most VCD aware burning/authoring proggies should allow you to burn a simple multi-track VCD.

Menus are a different beast altogether. Nero doesn't do it well and actually doesn't even do it properly.

For menus and other forms of interactivity, you will need a program like VideoPack 4 or VCD Toolkit. VCDImager can make very complex stuff as well, but it is not that easy to learn (though worth your while if you are interested). There are a number of GUIs for it now.

BTW, PBC = playback control. You need it for menus and other forms of interactivity on VCD2.0.

Regards.