HighMAT & VCD Q's

Hi people, I recently just bought a Panasonic home theatre system. The great thing about this is that it can play my home made movies (or ones I download ; ) ) on normal CD-RW discs. It can also play HighMAT (XP only I think) which is a fantastic tool. Organizes things perfectly. Unfortunately though, Panasonic currently only support HighMAT Audio and Images, not Video. So, to get to the point, I was wondering is there a way to have the HighMAT Audio/Image and then add a (S)VCD to it, then burn to disc or add later?

Thanks, Darryl

 

It's called a multi-mode disk, that is, one that has more than one format of data on it.
Depending on the authoring program, you can mix data, video, audio, etc., all on one disk.
I'm totally unfamiliar with HiMat, and quite honestly, if it were such a great thing, why is it not in common use anywhere?'
What is it, what does it do? Why use it instead of something else, especially for multi-mode?
Is it basically a slide show app?

 

HighMAT has only been around for about a year, and is only just getting recognized, hence why you don’t have a clue what it is. It was made so that you can organize your media files, and set it to a precedent. It has a slide show feature when viewing jpegs. Its hard to explain, go to " http://www.highmat.com/whatisit/ ", gives you full explanation. I find it so easy to use and organize things. Simply drop items in a folder, click copy to CD, and your done. Currently, only a handful of companies support HighMAT, which is why you wont haven’t seen much of it about, but its popularity will grow.

 

Definitely an intrigeuing bit of software.
Too bad there are not more players that will play it.
Until it becomes universally transportable, I'll stick to something that will play in all dvd players (for video).
Nice to use that for yourself, but you can't just lend the disk to a buddy, or send one to cousin Cindy, unless they have a player that supports it.
Somehow I doubt that it's popularity will grow all that much. I see it similar to that magical number recording thing for TV, where you had to have a VCR that supported it. Nice idea for simplicity, but where is it now?
Maybe I'll eat my words, but I doubt it.

As to adding an (S)VCD to a compiled Himat disk...who knows? It's a proprietary format (obviously), and I doubt you can edit the content before burning in any other application, so if it won't accept your SVCD compliant mpeg as a valid video, I don't see how it's going to work.
Another option may be to export the himat stuff in some way, and import it into a multi-mode authoring application such as DVDLab, but even then...the dvd player may recognize one or the other (usually the first part of the disk, in this case the svcd), but not both.

Most dvd players, even the really cheap $40 ones will play CDR/RW, as well as DVDR/RW, both + and -.