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[blakela]

I am using Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 and want to create an enhance/hybrid DVD. I want it to play normally in a DVD player or via a PC DVD player but also include a folder for data files that can be accessed when used on a computer. I have checked all of the FAQs and searched the web but can't figure out how to do it.

[sknis]

blakela, on Nov 12 2006, 03:34 PM, said:

I am using Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 and want to create an enhance/hybrid DVD. I want it to play normally in a DVD player or via a PC DVD player but also include a folder for data files that can be accessed when used on a computer. I have checked all of the FAQs and searched the web but can't figure out how to do it.

Creator Classic Multi-media disc.  Read the help files.

[blakela]

sknis, on Nov 12 2006, 02:05 PM, said:

Creator Classic Multi-media disc.  Read the help files.

That would appear to let me create a multimedia disk meaning video & audio files on the disk that would then work on a computer. But it gives me an error for putting the VOB DVD files on the disk.

I want a dual purpose disk:

Load in a DVD player and use DVD menus & play movies
Load in a PC and use Explorer to open files

Creator Classic's MM function doesn't appear to let me create such a beast.

[grandpabruce]

blakela, on Nov 12 2006, 07:53 PM, said:

That would appear to let me create a multimedia disk meaning video & audio files on the disk that would then work on a computer. But it gives me an error for putting the VOB DVD files on the disk.

I want a dual purpose disk:

Load in a DVD player and use DVD menus & play movies
Load in a PC and use Explorer to open files

Creator Classic's MM function doesn't appear to let me create such a beast.

The software won't do that.  You can use MyDVD to burn the production you made in VideoWave, to a DVD or .iso file, and on that disc or iso file, you can have MyDVD burn the files you used in your production, too.

[sknis]

blakela, on Nov 12 2006, 07:53 PM, said:

That would appear to let me create a multimedia disk meaning video & audio files on the disk that would then work on a computer. But it gives me an error for putting the VOB DVD files on the disk.

I want a dual purpose disk:

Load in a DVD player and use DVD menus & play movies
Load in a PC and use Explorer to open files

Creator Classic's MM function doesn't appear to let me create such a beast.

OK, what type of data files are you trying to add to that movie disc?

If you use any image (photo or scanned text) you can make a slide show and then add that to the movies in MyDVD. Add the slide show to the menu and select archive images in project setting, the original images will be saved in a file on the disc. When you archive images, a folder named My Photos or similar is created. You can then explore that folder on your computer monitor.  To get to the option, use the top menu to go to file> project settings.

If you don't want the slide show button to be seen on normal TVs, you can minimize the size of the text and button and drag it into the TV "unsafe" zone. Use the button in MyDVD to show/hide the TV safe zone.

I used this technique for adding a lot of text pages containing names and addresses to a disc for archiving. I knew that the text would not be readable if displayed on a TV but I wanted to be able to read it on my computer.

Is this what you are after?

Edited by sknis, 13 November 2006 - 03:57 AM.

[james_hardin]

I have done this through Classic.

You build your movie and Burn it to File. This creates the VIDEO_TS folder with the files for the movie/slideshow portion within it.

In Classic, you start with a new Data Project. Go to Files – Project Properties and set it for UDF file system with NO Bridge.

Classic will not allow you to add a VIDEO_TS folder to the project pane but it will let you fool it. I create a New Folder in the project pane and rename it to VIDEO_TS.

Then go to the VIDEO_TS folder on your HD with the movie files and copy all the files in it to your new VIDEO_TS folder in the project pane.

Now add the folder that contains all of the other files you want on the disc. I prefer folders for this but they can be copied to the root of the project.

Burn the disc and you are ready to go. You can also make an ISO from Classic of this project so that you can burn copies at a later time (I have to do that right now!)

[sknis]

james_hardin, on Nov 13 2006, 03:04 PM, said:

I have done this through Classic.

You build your movie and Burn it to File. This creates the VIDEO_TS folder with the files for the movie/slideshow portion within it.

In Classic, you start with a new Data Project. Go to Files – Project Properties and set it for UDF file system with NO Bridge.

Classic will not allow you to add a VIDEO_TS folder to the project pane but it will let you fool it. I create a New Folder in the project pane and rename it to VIDEO_TS.

Then go to the VIDEO_TS folder on your HD with the movie files and copy all the files in it to your new VIDEO_TS folder in the project pane.

Now add the folder that contains all of the other files you want on the disc. I prefer folders for this but they can be copied to the root of the project.

Burn the disc and you are ready to go. You can also make an ISO from Classic of this project so that you can burn copies at a later time (I have to do that right now!)

Good post, now the OP has two ways of doing what the poster wants to do -- if we understood the poster correclty in the first place.