needed for creating MPEG movies complete with sound. Most (all?
the utilities can also be built to run under DOS. http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/convert/. “iFilmEdit”, from http://www.cinax.com/Products/ifilmedit.html, will convert MPEG to VideoCD, and can reportedly convert a VideoCD .DAT file back into a plain MPEG file. “VCDGear”, from http://www.vcdgear.com/, converts between .dat and .mpg. http://www.vcdhelp.com/ has software and information. The “VideoCD Cook Book” at http://www.flexion.org/video/VideoCD/0.html is worth a look. Easy CD Creator, as of v3.x, requires that an MPEG MCI driver be installed in the system (unlike CD Creator, it doesn’t come with Xing’s MPEG software). The popular VMPEG 1.7 doesn’t quite work: ECDC can’t see the audio, and you’re not allowed to select the frame to view when shuffling streams around. If you have VMPEG installed as the MCI driver — select “About ECDC” from the Help menu to check — you need to *remove* VMPEG and then install ActiveMovie. (I removed under Win95 it by going into the Adva