New to VCD burn

[sneekes]

Season's Greetings. I just download my first movie, an AVI about 650mb. I want to create cvd, have done so okay with smaller test files. My question is, does it alwayd take about 15+ hours to create a vcd form an AVI using Nero 5.5? Is this length of time normal?
PIII 500, 256 ram, 32mb ATI Rage Fury

TIA

[w00kiee]

dont use neros converter.. it is very slow and the results are poor

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

then burn the mpg file you make (wont require conversion)

[sneekes]

Thanks for reply, any idea how long a conversion, and burning it should take on a p3 500 with256mb ram? Ta

[^^^^###@###^^^^]

Takes me 6-7 hours on an AMD duron 850 with 192megSDRAM for 95 minute movies

[sneekes]

Makes it hardly worthwhile downloading a movie(assuming you were that type of person!) and going through all the trouble. Which app do you recommend to burn a cd? I noticed a few freebies posted on this site, it also says Nero is best? Ta

[mrtubbles]

Nero 5.5 is by far the best software to burn VCD's. While using TMPEGenc to convert my avi's to mpeg, it was taking 20+ hours. Using Nero to convert and burn at the same time, it takes 2 hours(Each VCD takes about an hour a piece)

I run 1.4 ghz athlon with 512 MB of ram, which might explain why it is a little but faster.

[Mixster]

mrtubbles:

I have the same setup (AthlonXP 1500+, 512MB RAM, running WinXP Pro). However, no matter what I use (latest versions of both Nero and Roxio EZCD) I get a VCD that starts out okay but then starts to get progressively worse throughout (pixelated, and it almost 'pulses' between a good picture and a pixelated one). I've used TMPGenc to create two halfs of the movie (to fit on the CD) and when I watch the .mpgs on my computer they look fine. It's just after they're burned when they look like crap... Any suggestions? (I've got a Ricoh MP9060 DVD/CDR/CDRW drive and I've tried slowing the burn down to 2X and not much better...)

-Mix