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Terry Pinnell
I'm a complete novice in the VCD/SVCD arena, so hope you'll bear with
me please.
I have a program from Cyberlink called MediaShow 3.0, which lets me
produce slideshows of my photos (with music, transition, etc) in
VCD/SVCD formats, for playing on a lounge DVD player. I'm making a
'video' for my son and daughter-in-law with it.
But this program has one major shortcoming: the opening 'Menu' picture
(the static screen that appears on loading, awaiting use of the remote
control to initiate the video), is offered in only a few unattractive
'templates'. Worse, all of them are childishly titled 'My Slideshow'
<yuck>.
I can't live with that. (I've emailed Cyberlink, but doubt if they'll
have any good news for me. Beats me how they could limit its
flexibility in such an obvious fashion.) However, rather than abandon
the program (which has some attractive features), I'd like to find a
way to *edit* that image. I'm hoping someone here can help me do so
please.
I've burned a small trial video (4 photos, no music) to CD and copied
the files to my HD to play with. Here are the four folders and their
respective contents:
EXT
LOT_X.VCD 64 KB
PSD_X.VCD 1 KB
MPEGAV
AVSEQ01.DAT 4,328 KB
SEGMENT
ITEM0001.DAT 1,957 KB
VCD
ENTRIES.VCD 2 KB
INFO.VCD 2 KB
LOT.VCD 64 KB
PSD.VCD 1 KB
I've also ZIPped them (2.2 MB), and uploaded them here if anyone wants
to actually play with them.
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Images/Trial.zip
I can open AVSEQ01.DAT in WMP9, so it must be an MPEG file, and it
plays the video's 4 photos - but not the opening image. That is
presumably the file ITEM0001.DAT. But that file does *not* run in
WMP9. It gives message 'Windows Media Player encountered an unknown
error.' So, I guess it's not an MPG file? I tried arbitrarily changing
its extension to JPG and BMP, but no joy.
In my text editor, its binary content is incomprehensible to me, but
FWIW its first few characters display like this:
RIFFä CDXAfmt (the blank after the ä is a back-sloping ").
So, can anyone tell me how I might identify then open and hence edit
that file, so that the resultant revised collection of files will run
with my own opening 'menu' please?
Thanks
me please.
I have a program from Cyberlink called MediaShow 3.0, which lets me
produce slideshows of my photos (with music, transition, etc) in
VCD/SVCD formats, for playing on a lounge DVD player. I'm making a
'video' for my son and daughter-in-law with it.
But this program has one major shortcoming: the opening 'Menu' picture
(the static screen that appears on loading, awaiting use of the remote
control to initiate the video), is offered in only a few unattractive
'templates'. Worse, all of them are childishly titled 'My Slideshow'
<yuck>.
I can't live with that. (I've emailed Cyberlink, but doubt if they'll
have any good news for me. Beats me how they could limit its
flexibility in such an obvious fashion.) However, rather than abandon
the program (which has some attractive features), I'd like to find a
way to *edit* that image. I'm hoping someone here can help me do so
please.
I've burned a small trial video (4 photos, no music) to CD and copied
the files to my HD to play with. Here are the four folders and their
respective contents:
EXT
LOT_X.VCD 64 KB
PSD_X.VCD 1 KB
MPEGAV
AVSEQ01.DAT 4,328 KB
SEGMENT
ITEM0001.DAT 1,957 KB
VCD
ENTRIES.VCD 2 KB
INFO.VCD 2 KB
LOT.VCD 64 KB
PSD.VCD 1 KB
I've also ZIPped them (2.2 MB), and uploaded them here if anyone wants
to actually play with them.
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Images/Trial.zip
I can open AVSEQ01.DAT in WMP9, so it must be an MPEG file, and it
plays the video's 4 photos - but not the opening image. That is
presumably the file ITEM0001.DAT. But that file does *not* run in
WMP9. It gives message 'Windows Media Player encountered an unknown
error.' So, I guess it's not an MPG file? I tried arbitrarily changing
its extension to JPG and BMP, but no joy.
In my text editor, its binary content is incomprehensible to me, but
FWIW its first few characters display like this:
RIFFä CDXAfmt (the blank after the ä is a back-sloping ").
So, can anyone tell me how I might identify then open and hence edit
that file, so that the resultant revised collection of files will run
with my own opening 'menu' please?
Thanks
