[VCDImager] An SVCD with no <sequence-items>

[David Given]

I'm trying to construct an SVCD which consists entirely of layered menus. A 
photograph album, actually. (This is related to my other query.)

Unfortunately, vcdimager refuses to build the disc image without at least one 
<sequence-item> of at least four seconds. Currently I'm just using some 
random video I happen to have lying around.

Is this a restriction of vcdimager or of the SVCD format itself? Is there any 
way I can get round it? If not, is there any way I can artificially construct 
the smallest possible mpeg file to use for this track? Because my disc will 
be useless without PBC, I'm not particularly interested in compatibility with 
non-PBC players.

And are there any limits to the number of <selection> and <playlist> nodes on 
a disc? I'm currently looking at three to five hundred...

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