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Hi. I have lost many a night's sleep trying to figure this one out. I am still nowhere near to solving the problem. If anyone ever *does* figure out a way to do this, I suggest the solution be *immediately* added to the a/D article, 'How To Put VCDs on DVD'. In fairness to the article though, it doesn't attempt to create a massively-large VCD on DVD disc.
There are two problems as I see it. One -- standalone dvd players will only recognize a vcd IF that vcd is burned to a CD blank. (And it has to meet the vcd specs too!). Trying to author a vcd to dvd purely in vcd mode, (aside from being impossible) wouldn't work in a standalone player, because (and this is problem Two -- when the dvd player 'sees' that you have inserted DVD media, it expects to play back *only* dvd-video! Anything recorded on a DVD *must* be industry-standard vobs, or the player will reject the disc!
That goes for MP3 data-discs recorded on dvds as well.
When you first insert a disc, the player checks to see what type of media it is dealing with. If it detects CD-media, it will switch into a software mode that *only* plays back cd-type formats. (Whatever the player manufacturer wishes to support - vcd; svcd; mp3-data; red-book music cds; et.al.) If it detects DVD-media, it wants Vobs and nothing *but* vobs.
And there's Problem Three, too -- I don't know of any burning software that will author *any* dvd media as a standard vcd. (With the necessary <MPEGAV> and <VCD> folders.) You will just get an error message telling you to insert the correct media type. (CD).
It's a friggen washout, Zerocool. I can think of a LOT of standard CD-type stuff I'd like to put on a dvd because of the dvd's *huge* increase in capacity, but the present DVD standard(s) just don't allow it.
I hope someone can and WILL prove me wrong! Trust me, I DO want to be wrong about this!!!!
(Sure would be nice to put 1000+ mp3s on single dvd blanks, or, say, 4 or 5 complete vcd-resolution movies, *AND* have the dumb dvd-standalone player recognize them!!!)
All of the above is most certainly possible if the hardware manufacturers (and burner-software makers) wanted to get off their ass## and do something about it.
-- Klingy --
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