Newbie question. Can I convert a lossless AVI to DVD and bu

[MarvinMar]

Is it possible that i can convert my captured AVI files to the DVD format then burn them to CDR and play in my DVD player?

Does a DVD file (VOB) need to be on DVD media to be seen as a DVD?

I am only doing 30 minute sitcoms and was hoping to have beter qualtiy than VCD

[gNOMEintheRedHat]

DVD is MPEG2 @ high bitrates.
SVCD is MPEG2 @ lower bitrates.

DVD MPEG2 on a CD is only 10 to 15 minutes of video.

DVD format on CD is called cDVD. not many DVD players read these.

DVD 1x speed is nearly 10x CD speed. Not many players have that fast CD read capability.

[thenewboy]

MarvinMar,

It's possible to encode your avi into DVD format and burn onto a CD-R. However, you'll be paying the price for cd-r! Even a 30 min sitcom would be in 2 disc. Would you want that? Switching disc every 15 mins? I wouldn't! Try mak'em into SVCD or even XSVCD format. Its better quality than VHS and close quality to DVD. Jordan

[MarvinMar]

Thanks everyone.
I though I could do about 30 minutes and have better quality.
O well.

I have to learn more about SVCD then.
I encoded a movie to SVCD and my DVD player saw that there was 1 file 45 minutes but would not start playing it.

I have had friends give me movies on VCD that my player says "No play" to but when I look at the disk in my computer I see that it is a VCD.
I then pull the files into nero and it burns a working VCD without reconverting them.
Wierd.

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[Kdiddy]

"DVD 1x speed is nearly 10x CD speed. Not many players have that fast CD read capability."

I just wanted to point out that this is NOT problem as to why CDRs-RWs can not be read many DVD players. It is a firmware issue inside the player. 10x = 1.5 MBps or 12mbps, most DVD movies are well below 12 mbps, so you see it is not the speed. It is that the DVD players firmware has been program to read the sector size/spacing on media in order to determine what that media contains. When it reads DVD media, it assumes there is DVD format material on that disk. This why you can not write in VCD/SVCD format on DVD-R. Vice-Versa, when the player reads a CDR-RW, it assumes that the media contains mp3/VCD/SVCD/CD audio material, not DVD format. So when it comes across the UDF/ISO9660 format (DVD Format), it errors out because it was not expecting that format. The read speed never comes into play. This is why my DVD player has a firmware hack that allows me to choose how I want the disk to be read regardless of the type of media. Therefore I wan watch a (x)miniDVD.