I used to create my own Video-CD's of all kinds of movies that were not officially released on disc. I just got a CDR and with the Nero burning software it worked flawless. How would that go nowadays? CD-i member Paul Smallman tried this and reminded me of a few interesting details:
"Think im learning why my philips CDi wont play my own created video CDs. It would appear the system needs an application file on every VCD you create"
that's true, the CD-i player can only read the video if the application is installed on the cd, according to the VCD standard. I used to do that in Nero as well.
"Finally burned a successful vcd that works in the Philips cdi210. I installed Nero burning rom version 6 (7 seems to be have a bug where it doesn't burn the vcd propelery)"
Interesting why version 7 doesn't allow you to do that properly anymore!
The Video-CD application you can download here.