Can I burn DVD on CD-R and play on standalone DVD player

[george_zhu]

Got lots of Hi-8 video tape and a capture card with 720*480 capacity. But I have no DVD-RW driver. Most of clips will trimmed to around 30 mins each after editting. It will be wonderful if I can burn them on CD-R as DVD and play back on my standalone DVD-player. Any information about it is needed. Thanks.

[Memo_182]

What you're basically asking for is a mini-DVD. I'v actually done a few my self but to find a player that'll play them is kind of rare. I know my player does play miniDVD but it's picky. I think there is a type of header trick that you can use that you can trick the DVD player to think it's a DVD but I haven't looked into that yet. I use miniDVD for TV series DVDs. I get one episode per disc but I have to "shrink" it like crazy, but since it's mostly animation or CG there's not much loss of quality. Hope this helps if anything.

[housepig]

try burning them as svcd - you should get around 45 minutes on a cd-r, quality is not bad, and the format is more widely supported than miniDVD.

[lex7]

My player doesn't take SVCD even with "trick" so I make xVCD 720x480 with VBR. Works great, good quality and plays on most (I think) NTSC players.

Alex.

[ZippyP.]

If your DVD player accepts SVCD then you can make 352x480 SVCD's. Since this is a legal DVD resolution (1/2 D1), it's easy to convert to DVD at a later date. 1/2 D1 is a good resolution for home video anyway, as it matches the source.