VideoCD and DVD Player

Does anybody know if it is possible to create a digital photalbum on a videoCD which can be read on an ordinary DVD player ? Is there any software available to support this ?

Thanks, Francis

There are just a few mouse-clicks to make a VCD which can be played on an ordinary DVD player. Programs like Esay CD Creator or Nero CD-ROM Burning can do decent job. However, some DVD player cannot read CD-R, CD-RW works all the time.
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Francis said:

Does anybody know if it is possible to create a digital photalbum
on a videoCD which can be read on an ordinary DVD player ? Is there
any software available to support this ?

Thanks, Francis

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Not all DVD players can play CDR/CDRW disks.
How to Digitize the video:

Digitizing is a way to convert analog video into data you can store on your hard drive. To do this, you need a video capture card or, if you have a digital video camera, a 1394 or FireWire port. The ATI All-In-Wonder is a good video card with capture capabilities. If you don't want to replace your video card, pick up a stand-alone capture card like Pinnacle Systems Studio DC10 Plus. The Studio DV is a good choice for digital video cameras.

Capture your video to hard drive using the best quality possible with a color depth of at least 24 bits per pixel. The chief limitation here is the speed of your system and size of your drives.

Record a CD

Once you have the movies on your drive, the simplest thing to do is to burn a CD with the captured video. It's a little slicker and friendlier to your viewers to record the CD as a video CD or VCD. This is a standard for creating CD-based movie discs that predates DVD.

Create a VCD

Some capture software can save the resulting video in VCD-compatible MPEG-1 format. If not, save it as an AVI and use a free program called AVI2VCD to convert it. The AVI2VCD page http://www.mnsi.net/~jschlic1/ has useful information on what kind of files a VCD needs.

Record a VCD

Use a VCD authoring program to record your VCD. One common solution is Roxio's Easy CD Creator Deluxe. It's only $69 for the package.

Easy CD Creator will arrange your video files onto a CD and can create simple menus so you can navigate your files.

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Francis said:

Does anybody know if it is possible to create a digital photalbum
on a videoCD which can be read on an ordinary DVD player ? Is there
any software available to support this ?

Thanks, Francis

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This is from my response on another forum:

Ok! This is what I found. The answer to both is YES finally. This is the program which will convert the still images taken with the digital camera in JPEG format and convert them to MPEG format. It is from http://www.gromada.com/VideoMach.html and it cost $19.00. It take 8 minutes to convert four 640x480 image without audio and framed to play the still frame for three seconds each, and explode the file size from 200K to 1.755MB. I was able to play it with RealPlayer afterward. Haven't burned it to CD but it should work, I've burned other MPEG files using Easy CD Creator Deluxe before . Mine DVD machine is a Sony DVP-C6000 (three years old) I know it can play CD-R, but haven't try CD-RW. What you should do is burned two CD, one with CD-R and one as CD-RW, play it on your computer to make sure it works, this is the VCD. Then take it to the dealer show room and test out to see which player will play either, both or neither disc format. As far as the burner I have hand on quite a few and the best so far is the HP-9510. I paid $229 for it and it currently have a $50 rebate also. Other burner I experienced with is from Yamaha, Ricoh, Acer and Sony with mixed result.

Good luck

Francis said:

Does anybody know if it is possible to create a digital photalbum
on a videoCD which can be read on an ordinary DVD player ? Is there
any software available to support this ?

Thanks, Francis

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