burning VCDS on a dvd

[computel]

I was wondering if I can copy my vcd files to to a dvd and play them in my home dvd player that supports dvd-r and vcd?

Thanks

[ZippyP.]

Yes, VCD-mpeg1 is DVD compliant video. Don't copy them directly to DVD, they need to be authored. Look in the Guides section and search VCD to DVD for several methods.

[computel]

I want the VCD file but on a dvd if I convert the files they grow in size. What I want it VCD Mpeg Files on a dvd. Not sure if anyone has done this. I just want to save space and if I conver them to DVD (VOB files) they are 1gb files in VCD it is only 700MB files I can get to more episodes onj a DVD which will save me about 4 dvd's.

[ZippyP.]

You don't need to convert the video. Look in the guides like I said.

[indolikaa]

computel,

VCD has to be reprocessed before it can be used on DVD.

A 'real' VCD is 352x240 NTSC or 352x288 PAL, with MPEG-1 Layer-II audio at 224kbps. Any variation from this standard becomes an XVCD.

To move VCD onto DVD, you must make the video and audio streams DVD legal. While DVD does support the video resolutions, the NTSC DVD specification does not support MP2 audio, nor does it support VCDs 44.1 kHz audio.

You must demux the video and audio stream and transcode the audio stream to either PCM at 48 kHz, or AC3 at 48 kHz. If you are trying to move a PAL VCD to DVD, you can also use MP2 at 48 kHz. Once these files are demuxed and the audio is transcoded, the files are ready for authoring by the program of your choice.

Please note two things: PCM audio is 1536 kpbs, so if you transcode a VCD audio stream to PCM your overall filesize will increase pretty dramtically. Many authoring programs do this automatically. Also, DVD-Video must be at least 1 GB in size, so if you come up short the authoring program will compensate.

.indolikaa.

[moraize]

Hi, the great deal here is to know if it´s possible to exploit the extra capacity of the DVD-r media when authoring the VCDs, let me say, On a 90min CDR I can put 95Min of compliant VCD. I Do that all the time and I have lots of CDRs VCD compliants. So I´m thinking about buying a DVD burner, BUT, only if I know that I would be able to Put a DVD-r on it and author VCD, understand, i´m not interested in converting to DVD compliant Mpeg files, I ´d like to put 4 hours of Mpeg1 files on a DVD-r,

My question is,(and I can´t know because I never seen a DVD recorder on my computer), If I start for example Ulead DVD movie factory(or nero), and Choose, VCD as a new project, and I choose a DVD recorder as my Rec Device, and I put an empty DVD-r media, the program will see this media as having 4.7Gb of space or when I choose VCD it will limit the space to a CDR, this is my great question.

I know, that the oposit functions(mini DVD), I encoded a Mpeg2 DVD compliant file and burned on a CDR and it played at my DVD player.I´d apreciate to be able to do the oposit...

Thanks...

[RabidDog]

See the posts above. That is the only way that will work.

[bugster]

My question is,(and I can´t know because I never seen a DVD recorder on my computer), If I start for example Ulead DVD movie factory(or nero), and Choose, VCD as a new project, and I choose a DVD recorder as my Rec Device, and I put an empty DVD-r media, the program will see this media as having 4.7Gb of space or when I choose VCD it will limit the space to a CDR, this is my great question.

Thanks...

You CANNOT author VCD on to DVDr media as you describe. VCD requires CD media.

You CAN put VCD compliant video on to DVDr, authored as DVD video as described by the previous posters. It is the only way.