[color=red]Is there a way to format avi straight to vcd[/col

[oleam19]

Could someone tell me if i'm going about copying a downloaded movie in the wrong way.

When i download the movie it's normally a .avi file. Then i what i do is convert to a mpeg file so that i can format it as a vcd file, then copy it to disc.

Although this works , i was wondering if i really need to do all this work before i can get to a format that a dvd player can read.

This takes serveral hours, i was thinking that there was a probably a way that i can format straight to vcd from avi, without having to convert it to a Mpeg file.

I would most grafeful for any answers or suggestions for on software on this topi c

[acid512]

VCD is mpeg, not a format of its own. To play a downloaded video on a DVD player you must make a VCD,SVCD or DVDr.

You convert the avi into an mpeg, than burn it onto the CDR, using a vcd template. All a vcd is, is a cd with an mpeg file on it, and a few other files for the dvd player to read.

As for 2 hours, i guess that most of this time is spent encoding to mpeg.
To speed this up you could try using another encoder, or use a faster machine (how fast is your athlonXP?)

Alternativly, buy a kiss divx player (about 200 pounds in the uk), and you can just burn your avi files to cdr (no converting to VCD) and play them, providing the are encoded with the divx5 codec.

[oleam19]

thanks for your response but you have left me a little confused. When you say just use a VCD template, what is this? So are you saying that once i have converted an avi file to an Mpeg i don't need to change it again to a vcd.

So does this mean that once i have converted the avi file to an Mpeg i can burn it straight to a CD and player it on my DVD Player.

yes my computer has AthlonXP also,

[acid512]

Rather than try and explain how VCD's work etc, i will try and tell you a method to make a vcd (probably quicker than the way you do it, but not guarenteed)

Convert your avi to an mpeg whatever wayu you do now.
open nero (very good cd burning software, if you dont have it, download a demo from the tools section)
Select Video CD as the new project.
dont bother changing any settings, just click ok.
drag the mpeg you made into the file window
Click burn cd.
If nero says that it is not a compliant mpeg, you have encoded it wrong. If this happens post and ill try and help from there.

just out of interst, what burning program do you use at the moment?

[oleam19]

thanks again for your post, i have just read your comments and the burner that i have is Nero.

I will try what you have said, but will that work, because i thought that it wouldn't be readable,

Alex,

[mats.hogberg]

All a vcd is, is a cd with an mpeg file on it, and a few other files for the dvd player to read

Actually, no. From the computer perspective, maybe, but from the DVD player perspective it's a CD with a lot of sectors, and most of them sectors contain mpeg video data.

VCD is mpeg, not a format of its own

VCD is not MPEG1, but an MPEG1 file is used as source material in the process of creating a VCD. VCD is a format in the same perspective as audio CD is a format.

/Mats

[acid512]

To mats.hogberg

I am sure what you are saying is correct, but please read this guys postes, and you will see the simplified aproach i am using is probably the easiest way. From what i gather, he has been encoding 2 times, from avi to mpeg, then from mpeg to comliant mpeg with nero. If this is the case (the result of what i told him to do should tell), then i can probably sort it out, which will in turn help him appreciate how VCD's work.

[mats.hogberg]

You're absolutely right. Even if VDub - TMPGEnc - VCDEasy is far better than involving Nero, for a noob Nero may work (even if some (mine) DVD player refuses to play Nero authored VCD)

/Mats