how to burn a dvd on a cd

[treker]

Hi all,

i'm new to this but would like to do something.
Can i burn an authored video (i already have my VideoTS and AudiTS folders) on a simple cdr or cdrw?? I use nero but when i use DVD UDF/ISO, if i want to burn, it wont let me do so and doesn't allow me to choose a speed of burning because i think it sees i only have a cdr burner and no dvd burner drive... is there a way of burning small videos, authored, on a single cd.. it should be able to give u no more than 15 minutes of video with 5.1 encoding but that's enough for me..

any ideas and comments are welcomed.

thx all.

Treker@free.fr

[Kdiddy]

it should work, make sure you have latest version of Nero. Works for me. However, I hope checked ahead of time to make sure you have one of the 2% of DVD players on the market that can actually play these types of disks (miniDVDs), unless you plan on only using it on the PC.

[mijman]

What you are talking about is generally referred to as a miniDVD or CDVD (i think). If you have a DVD player that will actually play them, you need to keep the bitrate down in the 3000-4000 range. Of the few players that can handle them, many of those can't spin fast enough to effectively read high bitrates in the first part of the disk. After a certain point, it can catch up, though. But, 15 minutes is about your limit. 20 if you really want to stretch your disc out.

[Kdiddy]

"After a certain point, it can catch up, though. But, 15 minutes is about your limit. 20 if you really want to stretch your disc out."

Not entirely true...you can lower your video to around SVCD bitrates 2.6 mbps, and get about 35-40 mins per disk at SVCD video quality.

[mijman]

kdiddy, we aren't talking about SVCDs at all, quality or otherwise. We are talking about miniDVDs, 720x480 resolutions.

My statement about "catching up" was in reference to a bitrate of 7000-9000.

[Kdiddy]

kdiddy, we aren't talking about SVCDs at all, quality or otherwise. We are talking about miniDVDs, 720x480 resolutions.

My statement about "catching up" was in reference to a bitrate of 7000-9000.

Well if you truly knew anything, a miniDVD will not play at the rates of 7000-9000 bps off a CDR/RW because that is not one single DVD player with a drive that can spin a CDR/RW fast enough for bitrate that high. Even the best DVD players on the market come with a max of a 2X DVD drive, which can only handle streams of a total bitrate around 2.5 mbps max. Therefore, 7-9 mbps is completely out of question in REALITY, in theory, it works, but in reality it does not on standalone DVD players. The only way you will get it to work on those few players that support miniDVD is by making video bitrates less than ~2.1 mbps (assuming you going to keep 448 bps DD 5.1 track). Video at those bitrates is best suited for a resolution of 352x480 (which is within DVD specs), and not 720x480. So thus as I stated before, in REAL WORLD in order to get a miniDVD to play, you will have to lower your overall bitrate to SVCD levels and at which you will ONLY get SVCD quality video in order for it to play on those 2% of the DVD players that actually support miniDVD.

[mijman]

That's precicely what I am saying! I'm saying that they WON'T play on the standalone at that high a bitrate. (Not right off the shelf, anyway) (I found that out the hard way) But you still don't have to go as low as SVCD rates, 3000-4000 or so will play fine, there's no need to drop down to 2500 or less, unless you need the extra room for a longer clip.

I had a professionally released music video single DVD. It had 2 videos on it. The total disk volume was around 640mb and wasn't encrypted. So, I did a disc copy, and burned me a nice, easy miniDVD. The first video was slow and quite choppy, but by the time the second video came on, it played perfectly. They were encoded at around 6-7000.

[treker]

I forgot may be to tell u that i want to burn my mnidvd on a cdr recorder not a dvd recorder.. So is that a problem??

thnaks all.

Treker

[Kdiddy]

no it doesnt matter if you burn the CDRW on CDRW burner or DVD burner, the above stated issues still apply.

[rorygennaro]

Also for me is the same thing.

I use this settings:
1150 Kbits /sec
25 frames
720 x 576
Audio 48 layer II

On the Mustek 520 only one time was played, I do not understand.