User`s guide

Virtual CD v4 Documentation
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• MS Internet Explorer 5 (or later)
• MS Media Player 7 (or later)
• Approximately 10 MB hard disk space for installation of the Virtual CD v4
software
• Optional: DirectSound-compatible sound card
• Optional: Internet access, to retrieve audio CD data over the Internet
You will also need space on the hard drive for your virtual CDs. How much space is
required by a given virtual CD depends on both the CD content and the compression
method used in creating the virtual CD, and may be anywhere from 1 to over 700 MB.
Virtual DVD videos generally require 4 to 8 GB.
Document Conventions
Bold, italic type in the manual indicates either a procedure or a part of the program
(such as buttons and menu items).
Notes that are especially important are marked by the exclamation point
symbol you see here. These notes contain information that is essential for
trouble-free operation of your Virtual CD program.
Tips and tricks for simplifying procedures are marked with the light-bulb
symbol shown here.
Generally, whenever the term "CD" is used in this manual, it is meant to include DVDs
as well.
The following definitions of some Virtual CD-specific terms may be helpful:
• Virtual CD drives: These look and "feel" just like normal CD drives in your
Windows Explorer. You can set up as many virtual CD drives as you have
drive letters available (for example, D: through Z:).
• Virtual CD: This is synonymous with the depiction of CD contents. Virtual
CDs are displayed as symbols in the right-hand pane of the Virtual CD
Management program (the main Virtual CD program). The number of virtual
CDs you can create is limited only by the disk space you have available for
their containers.
• Virtual CD container (file): Each virtual CD is made up of one "container
file" (with the extension .VC4) and one or more other files, depending on the
amount of data (or number of song tracks) on the source CDs in each case.
The term "container" is sometimes used to refer to the container file
together with the other files that make up the virtual CD. The container file
basically "tells" the Virtual CD driver how to present the remaining CD data
in virtual CD form.