how to make a CD/DVD hybrid

[Mez326]

I want to make my CD also be able to play DVDs. You know like the professional ones that you can put in to a DVD player and it plays the movie as if it was a DVD and then the same disc acts as an audio CD in a CD player, or can read both on a computer? how do you do that, do you need special discs?

[TD5_23]

Originally Posted by Mez326

I want to make my CD also be able to play DVDs. You know like the professional ones that you can put in to a DVD player and it plays the movie as if it was a DVD and then the same disc acts as an audio CD in a CD player, or can read both on a computer? how do you do that, do you need special discs?

Are you sure these exist? I've never heard of one, and if they do exist I will be impressed and confused. In order for this to work I'm sure it would need to be a special disc. I have to imagine in order to burn to one, you would also need a special drive. If you have some more info about these, please pm me.

[Mez326]

you've never heard of these. Like when you buy a DVD you can watch it, like a concert or something then if you put it in your CD player it plays the music. Not possible? Or how do you make it so that you have an audio CD that when you put it in the computer it has bonus materials on it you can watch? That has been done, I have CDs like this.

EDIT: Found it: Enhanced CD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[TD5_23]

Originally Posted by Mez326

you've never heard of these. Like when you buy a DVD you can watch it, like a concert or something then if you put it in your CD player it plays the music. Not possible? Or how do you make it so that you have an audio CD that when you put it in the computer it has bonus materials on it you can watch? That has been done, I have CDs like this.

EDIT: Found it: Enhanced CD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, CD and DVD are actually two different formats. I've seen CDs that have VideoCD content on them, like MPEG or something of the like, but to actually have "DVD" content on a CD wouldn't work. If the opposite were true, if you were to put audio on a DVD, you would still be forced to use a DVD player in order to play it, which would defeat the purpose of having a "dual" disc. The only way I can see having a true CD DVD combo would be to actually split the disc into having half CD format, and half DVD format and then allow the player to ignore the section of disc that does not apply. If that were to exist, I would be impressed.

Sorry, I probably made that much more confusing that it needed to be. I'm assuming that you mean to make a CD that has video, as well as audio content. I've never done this before, but if you could find the software to do it, it probably wouldn't be too complicated. Keep in mind, any amount of a regular-quality video will take up a very large portion of a CD.