Burning DVD's onto CD-R's?

[MarcB]

Is it possible to burn a DVD quality movie onto a CD-R that will play in a standard DVD player? I know a CD-R will not hold as much.

[ember]

No
There is no known way of compressing DVD mpeg2, in a lossless way, to fit onto a CD-R/RW. Nor does there exist a way of compressing, in a lossless way, to a format that is still readable by a DVD player - as a DVD format.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ember on 2001-11-16 11:53:28 ]</font>

[gsashok]

Yes. You can. It will hold only less than 18 mins.

[ember]

True- but that's assuming you have 18 min (or less) movies (??)and one of the few special DVD players that play miniDVD.

[Kdiddy]

Acutally through bitrate lowering a la SVCD, you can get way more than 18 mins per disk...basically SVCD with ac3 sound = miniDVD...anyone close to a Wal-mart can pick a up GE model DVD player that plays these miniDVDs just fine.

[ember]

This is all semantics- we ought to ask what kind of movies he wishes to put on CD-R??