DVD onto a CD-R?

[djrelmz]

Is it possible to burn a dvd onto a cd-r and still have it play in a normal non-VCD DVD Player. And then if it is, is there a way to retain good quality(high file size) and burn the dvd over several CD-R disks?
Thanks, im new obviously so thanks for helping.

[myDVDEdit]

May be in the Twilight Zone

Jérôme.

[djrelmz]

yeAH, thats what i thought.

[Baldrick]

you can burn it on cdr but it wont work in most standalone dvd players. it is called minidvd/cdvd . www.videohelp.com/minidvd ( oooooooold page).

[thoughton]

Yes this is possible. They are called mini-DVDs. You need a relatively modern DVD player to recognise them, but even so there may be problems with bitrates. for instance if i stick one in my DVD player (a budget Hitachi HTDK 185) the words 'mini-DVD' appear on screen, but I often get flickering and skipping, even if the disc works on my Mac.

[myDVDEdit]

non-VCD DVD Player

I cant believe that a non-VCD DVD Player could play a mini-DVD.

Jerome

[AntnyMD]

They do .. Just not all of them, and when it does, it usually is not advertised. My Philips DVP642 plays them.

[live4ever]

My Philips DVP642 can play these. I just authored a bunch of trailers on a CD-R (all around 8mbps). But boy does the disc have to spin fast to play it back (at these high bitrates), it's very loud as well.

[Frobozz]

I read in the Apple forums where someone created an iDVD disc image of a short movie and used Toast to burn it to a CD-R. It only played in the computer; but it played.

[macuser25]

you can do this with toast 6. create a dvd-video, then when it asks you for a blank, insert a CD instead of DVD.

as said previously, you won't likely find a DVD player that can play this, but your Mac should be able to handle it.

[chikanakan]

This will work on some players, but not all. I would say maybe 30% of players will support it. I tested it on 11 players and 3 worked. A Philips, APEX and Toshiba player

You need to keep the bit rate below 4Mbps, or the disc will not playback well. If you created an MPEG with ffmpeg around 3Mbps and burn it with Toast, your player may support it.

[willrob]

But why would you want to do this? Given the recent drops in blank DVD prices, going to multiple CD-R disks doesn't make sense. Unless you lack a DVD burner.

[thoughton]

Sometimes when there might be one or two extras I want to save (interviews usually) and they are quite short so I will stick them onto a single miniDVD.