HELP!

[RipkenFan86]

Before you read this, please understand that I am new to this whole file format junk and everything, and got my first DVD player and DVD burner two days ago for Christmas so I am very very lost. I tried looking this stuff up but I got confused with MP2 audio files somehow related to this, and formatting your SVCD to something and whatever. What the heck is all this? Here is what I need to know:

1. Can I burn movies I download (usually from kazaa) that say VCD to DVD and watch them on my remote DVD player and how? If so, please explain the file formats and stuff as simply as possible.

2. What is SVCD and is it the same as VCD?

3. Though it is not related, how can I burn TMD and DivX to DVD and play them on my remote DVD player?

If you can help me out, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

[RipkenFan86]

And I forgot to say that I would like to try to do all this the cheapest possible. I am hot off Kazaa and understand nothing, and thouhg I want no help in doing anything illegal, I am 17 years of age and have no idea what the heck I am doing and what the heck is legal in the world of DVD ripping and burning. Thanks!

[yf2001usa]

1. Can I burn movies I download (usually from kazaa) that say VCD to DVD and watch them on my remote DVD player and how? If so, please explain the file formats and stuff as simply as possible.

You don't need to convert VCD to DVD to watch it on your DVD-player. Most DVD-players will play VCD just fine. Check here if you DVD-player will play VCDs and also check if it plays CD-R or CD-RW. Cause some players will play VCD or SVCD but won't except burn CDs. If you convert the VCD you loose quality, you could also burn more VCDs (about 9 or 10 for 45 minutes episodes) on DVD. But this isn't easy to do cause sometimes audio goes out of sync. Check here and here for guides and information about putting VCD on DVD (which is called a VCD-DVD).

2. What is SVCD and is it the same as VCD?

SVCD is not the same as VCD. VCD is a mpeg 1 file with a mp1 audio, see here for more technical details. SVCD is a mpeg 2 file with mp1 audio, see here for more technical details. The important thing for you to know is SVCD have beter quality picture and audio then VCD but they need to made the correct way. And SVCD are bigger then VCD cause there are more bits and bytes need to encode the better quality.

3. Though it is not related, how can I burn TMD and DivX to DVD and play them on my remote DVD player?

I can't tell you cause i don't know which player you have. I know most players won't but to besure about yours check this link and look for your player.

And if you player won't you can always find away to make them dvd. Check this section of the guides for on converting divx to dvd.

[SARK]

GUIDES, READ THE GUIDES!

[DiablosuX102]

yo, first off i wouldn't talk about downloading anything from kazaa, hehe, as far as conversions click on guides off to ur left and u can search for the guide u want. also, vcd is the same as svcd except svcd holds a higher resolution i believe? somethin like that :P

josh

[yf2001usa]

And I forgot to say that I would like to try to do all this the cheapest possible. I am hot off Kazaa and understand nothing, and thouhg I want no help in doing anything illegal, I am 17 years of age and have no idea what the heck I am doing and what the heck is legal in the world of DVD ripping and burning. Thanks!

If you want to play legal be sure you have bought dvd and/or vhs of everything your messing with cause a digital copy of things you don't own (read bought) are illegal.

[jtoolman2000]

Dude, you already screwed up big time by stating that you download from KAZZA. That's a big no no in this forum so never mention anything along those lines.

You can take a DVD that you PURCHASED - NOT one you RENTED or BORROWED and make a back up that will play on most DVD players attached to your TV. Hollywood still would prefer you didn't though

There are some tools that will allow you to take a Divx file you may have and re-encode it to either MPEG-1 or 2 so you can then author it to VCD or SVCD. To put it simply. VCD is burned to a common CD and the quality will be much lower than found on a full resolution DVD. SVCD is also burned to CD and will almost look as good as a DVD but you can only burn a very short duration movie to it. It all has to do with the size of the files, MPG-1=SMALL MPG-2 = Much larger! Once the files are converted to MPG-1 if you want to make a VCD or preferably to MPG-2 for DVD, you will need to AUTHOR it ( Menus - Buttons Ect. ) with an authoring program and render the final compilation to special types of files so you can then burn it to a DVD that will play on your standalone machine. Stick a DVD movie in your PC's DVD/Rom and then opoen the ROOT directory. Open the folder named VIDEO_TS and you will see the weird files I am talking about. You will become very familiar with these as you advance in you backing up career.

Rather that do convertions from this you DL which not only are they pirated and basicaly illegal, they are usually very bad in quality ( garbage in, garbage out ) why don't you just concentrate in backing up actual DVDs you buy. You let you conscience be your guide here!

Tools like DVD/Shrink 3 Beta 5 are 100% free. All you need is a DVD burner and some blank media and you can produce perfect to almost perfect copies of most movies. Depending on the length of the movie, you can either back it up 1:1 or with some conpression to allow it to fir to a DVD+-R disk.

There tons of tutorials in this forum - search - read and learn. That's the
only and best way to learn.

[RipkenFan86]

First of all, I am no longer a Kazaa fan, because all the pop-ups are pissing me off, and the fact that it is illegal to have downloaded copyrighted material from htem is worse. Let's say I have a legal .avi file and I want to take it into DVD format. How can I do that?

And btw, sorry for the Kazaa thing. I'm no longer one of them.

[fritzi93]

Click on guides at the left side of the screen. Search by format conversion, i.e. "AVI to DVD". Pick a guide and work through it. Sefy's guides are good.

[ghoster]

GUIDES, READ THE GUIDES!

exactly get off you lazy ass and read thats how we all did it. we just didn't give up after 5 minutes of reading say i am so confused HELP