How can I fit a 711mb SVCD on a 700mb CD-R?

[ultraviolet353]

First, let me apologize b/c I am sure this has been answered. I have searched the forums but found nothing. Maybe I am searching incorrectly. Anyway I have a 711mb SVCD file that I want to put on a 700mb CD-R. I edited 11mb out, but then I am unable to fast foward within the file. Anyway if there is a solution, I would love to have it.

Thank you.

[shepo]

You can fit up to 800mb vcd or svcd mpeg on a 700mb disk.

[TheHippo]

I don't know about any other programs, but when u burn ure SVCD/VCD with nero select Finalize after burning and you can fit 795-800MB on a 700MB/80MIN CD :lol:

[Douglesh]

The explanation for that is the mode you are burning in. Normal data CD's use Mode 1, which means that you can fit 650megs of Data, on a 74 minute disc. Video CD's use Mode2(XA) which means that you can fit 740 megs on a 650 meg disc, BECAUSE it measures the size of your file in Minutes using 1min=10megs (Mpeg1 standard). You see that by dividing 740 by 10.

[ultraviolet353]

OK, I just bured the SVCD in NERO, but what I ended up with was a bunch of files in 5 folders that won't play. The folders are as follows CDI, MPEGAV, EXT, SEGMENT, and VCD. Now how do I get this to play on my computer? Just to recap, I have a 711MB SVCD file on my system that I can play in Power DVD. I want to burn it to a CD-R to free up space on my drive. So I burned it in NERO, and this is what I ended up with.

[dave dolan]

Think i know this one, open mpegav folder double click file in there and it should play, works for me anyway.Hope i've been of some help

[jerrymac]

UV,

That's the format for SVCD. If you look in the MPEGAV folder, there should be a mpg file called avseq01 (at least that's what it's called on my cds). You should be able to play that in whatever program you have that plays mpeg2 files.

Hope that helps.

jerrymac

[The VidKid]

OK, I just bured the SVCD in NERO, but what I ended up with was a bunch of files in 5 folders that won't play. The folders are as follows CDI, MPEGAV, EXT, SEGMENT, and VCD. Now how do I get this to play on my computer? Just to recap, I have a 711MB SVCD file on my system that I can play in Power DVD. I want to burn it to a CD-R to free up space on my drive. So I burned it in NERO, and this is what I ended up with.

The reason why you can fit more on a VCD/SVCD than on a regular CD is because files on VCDs are written much like the old-day music records (LP), in one continuous stream. Files written to regular CDs are written much like a hard drive or diskette: divided in sectors and tracks, which produce some "gaps" of unwritten areas, which is why LESS data can be written to the CD. VCDs and Audio CDs follow the same concept of being measured in "time" rather than "size".

About not being able to play the SVCD on your computer:

- SVCDs and VCDs are burned in a special way.
1. Burned in the "single-track-stream-mode" I mentioned above.
2. Has several folders, etc.

- The reason why they're burned in that way is so a stand-alone DVD player (with VCD compliancy) or VCD player will be able to read it and play it. You can't just stick a video file on a CD and expect your DVD/VCD player to know which file to run and play. There always has to be a "standard" for things.

- As mentioned by others, you should look for that "*.dat" file, which is the actual video file, and open it up in your video player.
OR, if you have some sort of VCD playing software on your computer, use that one and it should automatically play the VCD for you.

I don't know if Power DVD can play VCDs. Try sticking it into your stand-alone DVD player and see if it can play it.

Check the list of DVD players here on VCDhelp.com:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php
to see if your DVD player can play SVCDs.


The general point of creating a VCD/SVCD is usually so you can play it on your stand-alone DVD player or VCD player, so you can watch it on your TV. Why create one when you're going to watch it on your computer??

Hope this post helps.

Good luck.

[invisibler]

I agree with everyhting you said VidKid...the only reason I've found to burn an MPEG as a VCD if you are only going to play it on your computer is if your MPEG is over 700mb and under 80mins and it will only fit on disk as a VCD...

[ultraviolet353]

Thanks a lot everyone! I finally got it to work! I appreciate ypur time and patience.