Need help burning CD-i compatible VideoCDs.

Hi! I own a Magnavox CD-i 450 and have the DV expansion installed. I’ve been toying around with burning VideoCDs and so far have been successful in creating normal VCDs, but now I want to take it a step further and create VCDs compatible with my CD-i.

Now, I have been doing research (mostly on this forum) and learned that a CD-i application needs to be present on the VCD for it to run on the system or else the unit will have no idea what to do with the disc…and that’s all I can gather from the research, since I can't find a clear and coherent explanation as to how to properly create these discs. I have the CD-i application files (VCD on CDi 4.1.1), but have no idea how to go about putting everything together.

If anybody out there can help me, I would appreciate it very much! Thanks!

Originally Posted by TheNewBarbarian

Hi! I own a Magnavox CD-i 450 and have the DV expansion installed. I’ve been toying around with burning VideoCDs and so far have been successful in creating normal VCDs, but now I want to take it a step further and create VCDs compatible with my CD-i.

Now, I have been doing research (mostly on this forum) and learned that a CD-i application needs to be present on the VCD for it to run on the system or else the unit will have no idea what to do with the disc…and that’s all I can gather from the research, since I can't find a clear and coherent explanation as to how to properly create these discs. I have the CD-i application files (VCD on CDi 4.1.1), but have no idea how to go about putting everything together.

If anybody out there can help me, I would appreciate it very much! Thanks!

imgburn will burn CD-I files - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDLESuxanl8 skip to 5:01
also see - https://www.isobuster.com/help/cd-i_and_vcd

Originally Posted by Cornucopia

If you are building your VCDs with vcdimager, vcdeasy, cequadrat, roxio/adaptec, and a few others, it should be giving you the option of adding the CDi application file. As long as that file is added in the appropriate folder and sector, those programs should be making proper White Book bridge discs which should be readable/playable in both CDi players, and VCD players (and CDROMXA drives on computers as well, with a compatible vcd player app if it exists).

Now, some of those apps worked out the vcd structure through reverse engineering, but others did go licensing the spec, yet I doubt that most or maybe even ANY of the apps creators did much disc verification using a legit CDi system (rare as they were even then), so it is very possible there may be enough spec inaccuracies that a bridge disc created by them might NOT be truly playable on a CDi system.

But I must ask, why do you need to play it in that machine, rather than a real vcd player (or dvd player that supported vcds)?


Scott

Should've mentioned this in the first post, I am using VCDImagerGUI. It won't allow me to enable CD-i support, and I bet that's because I am not putting the files in the correct locations or there's something else I am not doing correctly. I'm gonna try the other programs you mentioned, see if I get any better results.

Also, never considered the possible fact that the application's creators didn't use an actual system to make sure the discs would work.

As for why I am doing this, sheer boredom and curiosity. Just something interesting to try out just for the hell of it. It's not like I NEED to play them on the system

Sorry I don't have easy access to my archived apps (deep storage in another country, no less), otherwise I would offer to post some files.

Good luck.


Scott

Okay, thanks for the tip!
I'll post again if I have any success or need some more advice.