User manual NERO NERO 6

[. . . ] User Guide Nero Ahead Software AG Information on copyright and trade marks The Nero user manual and all its contents are protected by copyright and are the property of Ahead Software. This user manual contains material that is protected by internationally valid copyright. This manual may not - in whole or in part - be copied, transmitted or otherwise reproduced without the express written permission of Ahead Software AG. All trade names and trademarks are the property of the respective owners. [. . . ] Because AVI files are being encoded, the process will need both time and temporary memory Nero Creating a CD/DVD · 72 space. The characteristics of the produced video tracks can be checked using the 'Encoding resolution' option on the 'Video CD' tab in the New Compilation window. Burning MPEG-2 on VCD or MPEG-1 on SVCD is only allowed when the Nero DVD plugin module is installed. Please read the next section for more information. 7. 8. 5 Nero DVD plugin You can make Super Video CDs when the files are already in the MPEG-2 format or when other video formats are converted to it. MPEG-2 files can be decoded and encoded when this plugin is installed. It contains a file called 'VMPEG-2Enc. dll' which must be in the Nero directory. The file is loaded when a video decode/encode operation is required. For licensing reasons this plugin cannot be supplied with Nero. However you can purchase the DVD plugin on the Ahead Software AG website at www. nero. com. 7. 8. 6 VCD and SVCD menus Nero can create a menu for a (S)VCD. This menu consists of one or more pages which are the start of the (S)VCD. The user is able to navigate through the menu pages using the Previous and Next player buttons. The menu pages show all of the items that are on the CD. The user can select these items with the player's digit keys or with a pointer device (e. g. mouse). 7. 8. 6. 1 Setting menu parameters The menu parameters are found on the Menu tab in the 'New Compilation' window. If the menu is enabled, the menu pages will be created in the compilation. The user has a choice of preconfigured layouts. The result can be previewed in a small window by selecting the 'Preview First Page' checkbox. Some of the layouts have a thumbnail ­ this is extracted from the picture and video elements. The next section explains how to configure thumbnails for video elements. The user can choose a background picture and specify how it will fit the page size. The foreground areas that are not filled by the picture are filled with the color selected on the square button next to the Browse button. The Font button is used to select the text format of the different elements on the pages. [. . . ] There can be more than one session on a multisession CD. Simulation Simulation corresponds to the process of writing data, except that no data is written. Simulation is used to check whether the data can be sent to the recorder quickly enough to avoid a buffer underrun. It can also be used to check whether the recorder can actually write to the CD. You should use simulation when you are not sure whether the system can send the data quickly enough. [. . . ]