DVD o Mini-DVD

[wizzy]

Mini-DVD can fit on CD-R ?

[Dennis1968]

For storage pruposes. Mini-DVD can fit onto CD as long as the total megabyte size does not exceed the CD size (650 meg, 700 meg, etc)

[tompika]

MiniDVD is a DVD compliant VIDEO_TS folder burned on CD-R(W).

But do you think your standalone will play it?

[wizzy]

oh...so its a DVD stracture (video_ts,audio_ts) but on CDR! nice...i need to try this on!! any guides?
well....ill start searching for them....

[thayne]

They do not work on most set top players. I made one once and it works fine with PC dvd players, but not on either of my set top machines.

The main problem is you can't fit very much video on one. Only like 15-20 minutes. I think you're better off going with SVCD's for CDR's

[Dennis1968]

True, most Standalone players only spin CD media at 2X (CD), DVD needs a minimum of 8X (CD).

[rvl123]

What would happen if you set DVD2One to compress to 700 megs?

Would this make a compliant disc?

[Dennis1968]

Unkown. shrinking bitrate that low will probally result in output worse than VHS. In theroy you can do it, but most standalone player will not play DVD-Video on CD, it doe snot spin it fast enough to feed the data it needs to acheive smooth playback. I say try it just to experiement.

[tompika]

I've heard that the main problem is the FIRMWARE of the standalones.

When a CD(R/W) is detected they won't even start the program that could play the VIDEO_TS folder and they try to play music, MP3 or (S)VCD.

[David K]

Sampo DVD players are great for playing mini-DVDs. Unfortunately, Sampo has stopped making them.

For doing home movie clips, Mini-DVDs are fine, since home movie clips are (or should be) short (and even then they still seem endless to anyone but the proud parent who shoots them). You can learn to use DVD authoring programs this way even if you do not yet have a DVD burner.

As to RLV's question. Yes, if DVD2One outputs a compliant VIDEO_TS folder, you can burn that folder to CD using the UDF 1.02/ISO setting on your burning software (Nero etc.) and that will be a Mini-DVD. (You might add an AUDIO_TS folder (always blank) to be on the safe side if DVD2one doesn't automatically produce one.)

I tried using DVD2one to shrink a DVD down to 700 MB once. I had some trouble getting it to hit the right size (it is not really designed for this) and then there was a weird thing with the re-compression. It started out looking really good and then got completely pixilated by the end. It did not produce an even bitrate re-distribution, as it does for a DVD.

[wulf109]

I have used DVD2ONE to create miniDVD of Star Trek TNG/DS9 episodes.
Dispite the 45 minute running time they look surprisingly good,much better than SVCD. Use the 192bit soundtrack as that allows about 75MB more into the video stream.

[poopyhead]

miniDVD has really LOW dvd player compatibility...make sure yours can play: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers

What's miniDVD,cDVD?: https://www.videohelp.com/minidvd.htm

DVD rip to miniDVD guide: https://www.videohelp.com/miniDVDAC3/minidvdac3.htm

[David K]

Wulf,

I tried your method with the latest version of DVD2One with some half hour episodes, and you're right it works great!

DVD2One hits the target exactly even when set to the variable transcoding setting. There are no artifacts with the full DVD resolution even though the average bitrate is only about 2.5 mbps.

This is a great back-up option for small clips when one doesn't want to fill a whole DVD.