trying to put VCD files on a DVD with MyDVD Express

[curt1sw]

Hello all,

I am trying to add my VCD movies to a DVD with Roxio MyDVD Express. Each of my VCD's is about 1.2GB in size. When I add them with Roxio they take up almost the entire DVD. Is this all I can expect video wise to fit on a DVD? Its 2 hours of VCD video...

I was thinking they would hold a lot more.

Thanks!

[mats.hogberg]

s this all I can expect video wise to fit on a DVD? Its 2 hours of VCD video...

Nope. You're using the wrong tool. VCD video coincidentally is DVD compatible, so you'll be able to fit 6-7 hours of VCD to a DVD-5. Use something like TMPGEnc DVD Author (free trial available) to author. It will take care of the upsampling of the 44.1 kHz VCD audio to 48 kHz DVD audio. But 1.2GB VCD? A VCD only holds 800 MB?!?

/Mats

[curt1sw]

Hey,

well I was transferring VHS to VCD with the Hauppagge program I have. So 2 hours of VHS video turned out to be roughly 1.2GB of VCD quality video on my PC.

Does that make sense?

I will try TMPEng DVD Author.. I was using Roxio MyDVD Express.. any idea why the Roxio one doesnt work?

Thanks!

[TBoneit]

Most likely Roxio is seeing non DVD audio and re-encoding the whole file. TDA will just re-encode the audio and not touch the video. Much quicker and the video quality stays the same. Note that the above only applies to VCDs.

[diven]

Does anyone know of software other than TDA that allows this?

I've been using TDA to put VCD files of my son's kid shows on DVDs for a couple of years (the files are captured with my Hauppauge which is set up to encode as a VCD with the correct DVD audio which saves some time). TDA works great, and I highly recommend it for simple DVDs, but it is limiting at times, so I've been trying other packages. Everything I've tried so far has either not accepted the files at all or re-encoded them to MPEG2. Since I already was using VideoReDo, I had high hopes for the new VideoReDo TVSuite that has built in DVD creation, but despite an option to accept non-standard files, it still re-encoded the video to MPEG2.

Thanks!

[curt1sw]

when is that videoredo suite due out? I use videoredo also. I wish it handled AVI files!! That would be a great feature!

[diven]

I'm not sure. I upgraded to it a couple of weeks ago as part of a pre-release period which was supposed to end on Nov 8. I imagine it will be released soon, but I don't know when. There is a link on the VideoRedo entry in the tool section to the newsletter announcing the pre-release, but it is not listed on their main website

[mats.hogberg]

I think DVD-Lab Pro accepts VCD as source assets, and if there's one thing you can say about DVD-Lab, it's that it's not limiting...

/Mats