VCD Copy

[src2206]

Hi friends,
I purchased an original VCD of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. I generally keep one copy as a backup of the original. I know that keeping one backup is legal, more than one is not. [I do not buy many movie titles so the cost involved to make this backups is acceptable to me].
Now this title came out to be bit weired. The size it is showing is about 800MB which is about 80MB larger than the available CDs of 720MB. the time is also about 91mins. because of this the CD to CD copy did not work with my burner. I extracted the dat file as mpeg using Isobuster. Then I tried to burn it a a CD but the result remains the same.

So what can I do to copy this CD to another CD as a VCD? Is there any way out?

Please help.

Thank you.

[mats.hogberg]

Basically, a disc copy should work. As VCD a regular 80 min CD can store 800 MB, 80 minutes of VCD specs video.

/Mats

[AlanHK]

I've got a Hong Kong VCD of this. It came on 2 disks:

630,538,316 bytes, 59:34 disk 1
290,947,148 bytes, 27:29 disk 2
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921,485,464 bytes, 87:03 total
(These are the sizes of the DAT files).

There's barely a minute of credits, so no point in trying to cut that.
I suspect your VCD must be a 90 minute CD. These are fairly common here, only cost a little more than standard 80 mins.

[mats.hogberg]

I suspect your VCD must be a 90 minute CD.

Not necessarily, as 1150 kbps is (according to some) is MAX allowed bitrate. So, to make room for more video, you can lower the bitrate, and still be VCD.

/Mats

[src2206]

Mats, you are right.

It was a 90min VCD and I bought one 90min blank CDR and copied it using VCDEasy. I just had to keep the "allow overburn" feature on.

I have done all this with the help of Mats in another thread.
So I would like to express my gratitude to Mats again .

[mats.hogberg]

You're welcome, src2206!

/Mats