VCD's The EZ Way

[GreenChicken]

If you got the money and really wanna do this in the easiest way do this.


This is what I use...

1.2 GHZ Athalon 256 Mb PC2100 DDR-Ram
64Mb Radeon Vivo
40 Gb Harddrive


Use the software that comes with the Radeon and on the recording option
select "Video CD"

Record your program you want to burn to VCD
Save the file to desktop
Use vcd cutter to split it (if it is too big to fit on 1 cd)

Open Nero
Select New Video CD
Drag one of the split files in the project box
Click burn
Make some popcorn while it's burning

Grab your VCD out of the burner
Load it in your 92 dollar DVD Player(APEX 500W) from Wally-World this player also
supports cdrw discs so you can record over and over again great for the wifeys soaps.

Enjoy
Perfect audio sync
No bs time consuming encoding programs to deal with.
Good Quality unless you are a quality freak of course.
After you get these simple instructions down pat you will be able
to have both cds finished in less than 30 mins (depending on burner speed)

There will be some who will dispute this but if you wanna take all day to make a good VCD
feel free, I prefer it fast and simple and consistant and this method is just that for me.

[aldus4]

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If you got the money and really wanna do this in the easiest way do this.

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Actually, I would have said in this case purchase the VCD or get someone else to do it.

But seriously now, capturing (and capture cards) is getting quality wise better and better these days.

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Aldus4 - love it. Great comment.

Green Chicken - I have been a proponant of your approach for a couple of months. It's very simple and the quality is great. The quality gets even better if you want capture XVCD's. Get Stinky's tool off this site and give it a try. The tool will allow you to capture with increaced bit rates which will improve your quality to suprising levels. Your Apex will handle it great because its cheap enough

Stinky's tool allows you to capture XVCD's with the very important "constrained parameter flag" turned on in your captures. The flag will be included in your XVCD (Mpeg1)header which gets it past Nero and in many cases will be playable on many DVD players that would not play XVCD's previously. This "trick" is restricted to MMC 7.1.

I came upon this when I was faced with capturing over 175 movies with a time restriction of approximately 45 days. Without stumbling on it, and without Stinky's tool making it extremely simple, I'd still be trying to reencode my first VCD and I'd still be starving for popcorn.

Good luck to you!

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I should add that I went the VirtualDub, TMP, BMP, encode, downsize, reencode, etc etc route first. I tried different codecs. Even purchased the PicVideo codec. And I did not notice any measurable increase in quality. Well let me clarify that. I did notice some increase in quality with simple VCD. But actually not enough to justify the absolute abhorant amount of time required. It brought me back to my horse counting days when I used to add up all the legs and divide by four.

For simple movie or television capture there is no better way. When you get into the area of original and creative video production, for example home video creation and editing, you are still forced to use the many tools I've mentioned above.

[fravel]

Where can you get Stinky's tool? It's nowhere at this site, I believe.
Thanks in advance.

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Go to the tools section. Its under capture tools. The "ATI AIW MMC Reg Tool".

[askanison]

I was wondering with your Raedeon can you capture from VCR too? just wondering.