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seeker wrote on 4/1/2003, 9:04 PM
John,

Are you asking how to put the image on the DVD case? Several CD/DVD labelling programs can print jewel case labels and circular adhesive labels that can be applied to the disc itself, using graphics that you supply, which could come as frame grabs or other graphics from the video itself.

-- Seeker --
jbrawn wrote on 4/2/2003, 12:37 PM
No, sorry I wasn't clear.

Several commercial DVDs that I own display an image of the case cover on the screen when the DVD player is in stop mode. MY Sony DVD player has a setup control that allows me to show the DVD cover image or the player's screen saver when stopped. In the dozen or so DVDs I have which do this, the cover image is always a still image, never with any audio.

So, there must be a way to scan the actual DVD case cover art, and load the image into the DVD fileset.

Can anyone please give me a pointer to how the cover image can be loaded into the DVD files for this functionality to work correctly?

Thanks,

John.
richard-courtney wrote on 4/7/2003, 3:47 PM
Look in the JACKET folder of your DVD. See interesting .MP2 file(s) there?
Drag one to a video track and adjust the loop region for the first frame only.

Then look that this website:

http://www.tfdvd.com/public/department44.cfm

I have used CD TEXT for my music cd's for sometime and nobody has
players (unless you have a multidisc changer) that displays the title.
I don't know if this will take off in the market but have fun.
bcbarnes wrote on 4/7/2003, 7:04 PM
Unfortunately, DVDA will not burn a directory structure that has anything other than AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders in it, so you can't use DVDA to burn it - although you could certainly use something else.

It would be nice (hint hint) if DVDA could be enhanced to allow the selection of a graphic as the "DVD Image", and it would create the "JACKET_P" folder and the 3 image files.
jdupre wrote on 4/17/2003, 1:46 PM
>>Unfortunately, DVDA will not burn a directory structure that has anything other than AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders in it, so you can't use DVDA to burn it - although you could certainly use something else.<<

Well that's stupid. As far as burning a prepared DVD structure goes, can you use just any old burning tool? Like Roxio's EZ CD/DVD creator 6.x? Or is there something more to just having the DVD structure onthe disk (i.e. some sort of a hidden "boot sector" or some-such)?

In other words, once I create a DVD directory structure, is it just a matter of burning this structure to a data disk?

- Joe
tlparker wrote on 4/21/2003, 9:15 AM
Sigh. Mydvd (cheap little program that came with my burner) also does this.
tlparker wrote on 4/21/2003, 9:16 AM
Nero burning ROM will let you do it. It has a template directory structure that you can take your "rendered to directory" files and drop them into and then use Nero to burn the DVD.
bcbarnes wrote on 4/21/2003, 10:33 AM
>>Well that's stupid.

I suppose, but I imagine it was put in as a "safety" catch, to keep some poor dumb user (PDU) from burning the wrong folder to a DVD. Personally, I would have prefered if DVDA would just give a warning, and allow the burn to continue anyway.