My First VCD

[celticking]

Tonight i'm hopefully going to make my first VCD from a DivX movie and a few questions. I'm using the DivX to VCD All-In-One Guide for reference. This is my DivX movies attributes......

Width 512
Height 384
Duration 1:27:59
Bitrate 127kbps
Audio Format MPEG Layer3
Frame Rate 23.97 frames/sec
Data rate 136kbps
Video sample size 24bit
Video compression DIVXMPG4 V3

So what would be my output resolution for this as i believe that it should be 352x240? Will this distort my picture. Secondly, is it possible to burn to 1Cd or should i just go for 2?

Thanks for any advice.

[Sefy]

If you have a 90min CDR media and your CDRW supports it, you can encode it to a fully standard Video-CD and it will fit perfectly with 3min to spare.

As for the picture being distored, if you set TMPGEnc that your source is a Wide Screen 16:9 Display and you using Full Screen (keep aspect ratio 2)
then you will have no problems.

[celticking]

Thanks for the help, turned out great. Need some 90 min CD's though.

[Sefy]

Since i'm in Isrel, I can't tell you where to buy them in stores, but you can find them in several places online.

[afwasborstel]

As for the picture being distored, if you set TMPGEnc that your source is a Wide Screen 16:9 Display and you using Full Screen (keep aspect ratio 2) then you will have no problems.

I know this has nothing to do with this topic, but I am just curieus..what is the difference between Keep Aspect Ratio and Keep Aspect Ratio 2???

[Sefy]

As far as I recall, the diffrence is only when being played on the PC by a player like Media Player

Keep aspect ratio = will play the movie maintaining the aspect ratio in a window, but when full screen, aspect ratio is gone
Keep aspect ratio 2 = will play the movie maintaining the aspect ratio in both Windowed and Full screen modes.

[afwasborstel]

Thnx Sefy..always was wondering what that was

[marcusaxavier]

About the 90min CD-R's:
I did some checking around, and here's what I found. Most companies will not make a CD-R larger than 80min, due to CD-R standards. I found one company that makes them, but I am unable to track them down in stores. This is a link to the company that makes them (Infiniti):
http://www.medeainternational.com/info/90min.htm

I also found that some CD-Authoring software will not burn onto a 90min CD-R. The two that I found (I did not look at all of them, but recommend you visit the website of your's) were Roxio (Adeptec) and Iomega.

BTW, the companies that I checked to see if the made 90min CD-R are:
Imation
Memorex
Maxell
IBM
Fuji
PNY

[MOVIEGEEK]

NTI cd-maker and Nero support over-burning.For 90/99min. media:
http://www.cdr4less.com

[Sefy]

In Israel we have 3 companies, one is local, but the other two are imports, they are: SilverLine and GPT
according to CDR Diagnostics, one is made by Plasmon and the other by Mitsui Chemicals (I think that's the name).

here is a place to buy on the net: http://www.disc4you.com/start.html

[VCD-Trading]

I have the Terapin VCD recorder and its the best. Screw the computer trying to make VCDs, get a stand alone one....


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[MOVIEGEEK]

The Terapin vcd recorder has to be the ugliest component I have ever seen.At $500(US) I'll stick with my computer thank you.

[vcd4me]

Alright don't start about the Terapin, or VCD-TRADER and I will gang up on you don't bash it til you try it. my terapin will be here by mid-week. As for being the ugliest I with you on that one MOVIEGEEK also it's only 264.50 delivered to my door with plenty of extra goodies.

[vcd4me]

VCD_TRADING, I Checked it out- looks good! When did this happen!

[YngwieJM]

I don't have a clue where to get 90 min. cds but I got 99 min. cds at CompUSA. They didn't show them on the website but they have them in stock. They are SKU#282323. I select "overburn" in Nero and they burn just fine and play on my Apex and Ge (also an Apex) just beautifully. I am able to fit up to 983 mb of xsvcd on them even though it's an 850mb disc!