Making a VCD on DVD media?

[BTO]

Is it possible to burn a vcd onto dvd media? Thereby allowing you to put 3 complete movies (6 - 680 meg dat files) onto a 4.7 gig disc.

Thanks

[snowmoon]

I believe 4.7GB is really 4.2-4.3 because of that whole MB or 1000000bytes thing. That's still over 7 hrs per disk.

I believe you will still have to re-encode the audio, but it should be possible.

[BTO]

Let me clarify. I know the new Daewoo DVD player 4000 series lets you play mpg files off of a any disc individually. But I was wondering if you have a DVD burner on your computer and run Nero and select VCD. That if you have a DVD-r in the drive does nero let you utilize the 4.3 gigs of space for the VCD you are making. Is this possible?

Thanks Again

[offline]

BTO,

interesting question. You should be able to burn in udf 1.5 and
have access to mpeg-1 in such a DVD player - in theory. I have
a feeling you would not be able to view the files/folders but be
able to press next to run through them one by one - rather
like a dvd disc with PBC off.

[bugster]

You can certainly use VCD compliant mpeg-1 files when authoring DVD-video (audio re-sampled at 48khz) and so get loads of stuff on a DVD-r. As to whether the Daewoo player mentioned will play mpeg-1 files written as data to a DVd-r, I would say the best way to find out would be to try it!

[tlegion]

There's a guide to do this: http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr.htm

[BTO]

Thanks for your help everyone, especially Bugster. The Daewoo DVG-4000S reads files off a CD-R or CD-RW and puts the appropriate icons next to the file name ie. MP3 or VCD, or ? next to unknow file formats. This I have tested. I will know tomorrow if the data DVD-R is also file browsable and will post the results here. By the way, the Daewoo is a good choice for a bedroom DVD player as it is only $89.00 and plays every type of format and also has folder & file browsing.

Thanks again,
BTO