Burn DVD in a CD

[Noto]

Hello: can I burn a dvd in a CD? can I play it in my DVD player?
Obviously I know I can't make it as long as a dvd... I'm talking about a few minutes, but with the quality of a DVD...
Any suggestions?
Thanks

[AntnyMD]

You can burn DVD content to CDs. At the most, you'll get 14 - 20 minutes of material on the disc. There is a 99.9999% chance this disc will not play at all in your settop DVD player. Check the "DVD Players compatibility and user comments" list from the left navigation.

If you happen to own one of those players that will make an attempt to play this disc, it will probably be recognized as a data CD and will let you select the track containing the MPEG file. It may or may not play without sound. Since the bitrate of DVD is higher than that of VCD and SVCD, the video, if it shows at all, most likely will stutter.

These DVDs on CD, also known as miniDVD or cDVD, can always be played in computers that have MPEG2 playback capabilities.

[galactica]

You could always do DVD to SVCD and get a pretty good looking "DVD" on 2 cd's (or 3) but it depends on your standalone players ability to play these SVCD disks.

But AntnyMD's suggestion is also another way , SVCD you can hold more video though (but the quality is less than DVD)

[dcsos]

THIS IS CALLED a MINI-DVD

it doesn't play in any settop SAVE 4% of the players out there.
I use this format all the TIME..
but I MARK the DISC: PLAY IN COMPUTER ONLY!

Now is there an APPLICATION that will AUTO-PLAY this kind of DISC on a MAC?
The APPLE DVD PLAYER always tells me that my MINI-DVD is a DVD that is DAMAGED
I have to play the VIDEO TITLE SET manually
on MACS

but on a PC it autoplays fine (and HOLDS 20MINUTES of FOOTAGE at high quality)

[AntnyMD]

Now is there an APPLICATION that will AUTO-PLAY this kind of DISC on a MAC?
The APPLE DVD PLAYER always tells me that my MINI-DVD is a DVD that is DAMAGED
I have to play the VIDEO TITLE SET manually
on MACS

That's a little shocking. When I insert a miniDVD, Finder says its a CD-RW (!!) and Apple DVD Player does not automatically launch. When I start the app manually, then hit the play button, it plays the disc as a DVD (menus and all if I've included them).

[galactica]

just out of curiosity, how many megs/gigs? does these "MiniDVD's" hold

[TBoneit]

Hello: can I burn a dvd in a CD? can I play it in my DVD player?
Obviously I know I can't make it as long as a dvd... I'm talking about a few minutes, but with the quality of a DVD...
Any suggestions?
Thanks

the answers above apply unless you are asking will a blank DVD burn in a CD burner?? Then no it won't.

[ZeroSix]

the best way to achieve the true miniDVD format, which is UDF, is not availble in toast by way of using a VIDEO_TS folder.

Using Discribe, you can burn UDF format onto regular CDr in which case OS X will recognize it as a DVD and automagically launch the DVD player.app

However a way around this i imagine would be to create a UDF image and burn that in toast, but this is untested by me...

The miniDVD format is pretty much useless, unless you are just burning maybe 10-20 minutes of source video, like maybe a TV episode or something. There are not many players out ther ethat will play them, except... i cant get my Panasonic gamecube to read them or my Apex. However, the X-100 Divx player plays them just fine.

For reference, if your player is capable of miniDVD, a player will not NOT NOT recognize the disc as a DVD unless it is successfully burned in the UDF format.

hope this helps.

[AntnyMD]

the best way to achieve the true miniDVD format, which is UDF, is not availble in toast by way of using a VIDEO_TS folder.

ahem ...
When you set up a DVD project using the DVD option in Toast, then stick a CD (not a DVD) in and burn it, you'll get a properly formatted UDF file system.

just out of curiosity, how many megs/gigs? does these "MiniDVD's" hold

650mb - 700mb, depending on what kind of CD you used. I found it most interesting to take MPEG1 material at VCD bitrates but up to DVD spec, and author that as a miniDVD. Doing that, you can get between 60 and 70 minutes of video on a CD, depending on the kind used. However, just because it can be done doesn't mean its the best option. VCDs obviously can hold slightly more content at the same bitrate and resolution.

[ZeroSix]

ahem ...
When you set up a DVD project using the DVD option in Toast, then stick a CD (not a DVD) in and burn it, you'll get a properly formatted UDF file system.

I stand corrected... Is this a new feature implemented in toast? I swear i got errors trying to do this about a year ago and have been using Discribe ever since...

[ZeroSix]

so i burned a test VIDEO_TS folder in toast using DVD format and it did burn and it did mount [as a UDF in GET INFO], however, it did not say that the disc was a DVD-VIDEO. Using Discribe it will say the disc is DVD VIDEO.

My point? None, just an observation... Aside from that feature, its unfortunate that Discribe sucks.

[AntnyMD]

I get the same thing, ZeroSix. In fact, Finder tells me the DVD on CD-R is just a regular data disc, and it thinks its a CD-RW. Weird.

[dcsos]

So Thats the RUB!
My TOAST is older and doesn't do UDF by DEFAULT....
that why my burned DVD's said they were damaged/dirty..they had
file formating not used in a legal DVD. The ISO IMAGE trick should work for me then (OR USE A PC,,if i have to :-()

thanks for the explanation..
The Mac In Question cannot be udated howerver because its running SONIC CREATOR and they say if we update toast we'll lose CREATOR(I doub't it) but when a system costs over 30,000 you don't get to ask those questions...cause we can't even get 2.17 of CREATOR as our system is 9.01 or some such.

[Noto]

Thank you very much to everybody. I wanted to play my DVD on my player. But it seems impossible.....
I'll try the svcd.