i need an experts help on divx to dvd...lot's of questions

[vcdfreak3240]

Ok here's the deal. I am not really into the whole using 2 cd's for a vcd...i somehow manage to ruin 5 cd-rw that way (Nero no longer recognizes them). So i was thinking of going out and buying either a DVD-RW or a DVD-R. Problem is that i don't know if my player supports it or not, and i have checked the listing on this site. Also, I don't have a dvd burner but i have a regular cd burner..can i still do this? If i can do it will it play on my PS2.

So what would you guys do? Oh and how do you improve the sound quality of downloaded screener movies? Sorry for all these questions, i am just a very frustrated newb!

[NickmanXXX]

Hey, before trying use DVD-Rs on a CD-R/RW-Device you should try to record DVDs on your VCR.

[KingJohn]

Hey, before trying use DVD-Rs on a CD-R/RW-Device you should try to record DVDs on your VCR.

Perhaps you should be more helpful ?

[KingJohn]

Ok here's the deal. I am not really into the whole using 2 cd's for a vcd...i somehow manage to ruin 5 cd-rw that way (Nero no longer recognizes them). So i was thinking of going out and buying either a DVD-RW or a DVD-R. Problem is that i don't know if my player supports it or not, and i have checked the listing on this site. Also, I don't have a dvd burner but i have a regular cd burner..can i still do this? If i can do it will it play on my PS2.

So what would you guys do? Oh and how do you improve the sound quality of downloaded screener movies? Sorry for all these questions, i am just a very frustrated newb!

Hi, Does you player play VCD OK?

You can make VCD's on your CD Writer, as for the future compatibility of those others, I think by Christmas we may see a good price drop. Take a look in the DVD forum's here see what people are using. Your DVD play may play both, but there again it may not.

Might be worth waiting a while before you buy anything, struggle on with VCD until then !

[vcdfreak3240]

ok..i guess i will keep going on with vcd's..in the long run it's probably cheaper anyway. I've made a few of them, and my player is Video CD Compatible. The only reason i said about moving on to a different format is because most of the vcd's i make freeze every now and then while in my standalone player. I've followed the guides on here to a T, checked for bad frames..the whole nine yards..lol. But i guess i will just keep plugin' away at it. Thanks for your help king John, at least you were cool enough to help out...unlike some smart ass on this post!

[KingJohn]

What CD brands are you using?, what speed do you burn at?, What program do you use to author ? (Just Nero?)

These are things that can have an effect on the playback, and the quality of the writer. Try a VCD at 4X on a TDK/Maxell 80Min, see if there is "any" improvements.

When you play a VCD and it freezes, if you replay does it freeze in the same place again. When you make the mpeg 1 are you using TMPGEnc and loading a VCD template ?

Well there is a few questions you can answer

[vcdfreak3240]

ok i have used both nero and vcdeasy to burn to a cd and they have both caused freeze ups. Now, it doesn't always freeze in the same spot. As for the brand that i have been using...i have been using memorex 4x cd-rw and verbatim. I just created a standard compliant vcd last night and my player picked it right up. i didn't watch them yet to see if they freeze or not though...lol!

[KingJohn]

So was you not making them compliant before ?

XVCD is ok if you really need it, people don't like to use 2 disks so squeeze 180 min on to 1 disk fine... But the price of disks you might as well use 2 if the movie is good

See how it goes then, so if its not freezing at the same spot, there is nothing wrong with the stream as far as jumps etc, just down to the player and the type of stream written. Keeping it compliant, gives you a better chance of not having those problems.

[vcdfreak3240]

I've been using two discs for the movies i have been converting. They are all dvd rips so far, but i do have some that aren't dvd rips. The quality is pretty good in the vcd compliants that i made. Only thing i noticed is that my player seems to be a little noiser when i play these kinda of cd's (the ones i created). Other than that..i think it all comes down to little pieces of detail that i thought i was getting right, and just wasn't doing it..lol.