Making a miniDVD

[exklojo]

Hey Does anyone know if its possible after ripping a DVD and shrinking it, to write it as a miniDVD with a normal cdwriter. The problem I found was that nero, clonedvd and some other proggies wouldn't want to write it as a DVD. What is logic knowing I don't have a DVDwriter. Is there a way to trick my PC so that it is possible. Or do I need some special software.

[tompika]

I've made some cDVDs with RecordNow Max.

I could use cDVDs for short clips but unfortunately my standalone doesn't play them.

[daredevil]

you could do mini-dvd with tmpg dvd author if your project is at max the size of your cd. it works fine, I've done a lot of mini dvd's on cdrw and when I got enough movies to fit on a dvd I take the movies from the cdrw and I do a DVD with several movies on it.

[yysie]

I author the video with TMPGEnc DVD Author, then I burn it on cd with Nero...

[andydd]

Very few standalones will play miniDVd (or cDVD), my old Afreey does (and so do many of the sampo family) but thats all.. I made em for quite a while but to be honest they arnt worth the hassle. They just dont work half the time. My advice is go buy a DVD burner they are cheap as chips now..n start burning DVD-Rs.miniDVDs were only really a stop gap untill DVD burning became affordable and now it is !

Ive re-encoded some of my miniVDs to DVD format now, but of course the quality aint that great.

[wulf109]

I've been making miniDVD's of TV epidodes with DVD2ONE and burning with NERO. Any burning program that supports UDF/ISO will burn a miniDVD. The new Nero 6 even has a template for miniDVD. I have also burned them with NTI CDmaker.

[daredevil]

I've made a template for tmpeg so I can put a movie on less than 700MB with quite good quality (I try to make them 620MB so i can put 7 Movie on a dvd, and 1 on a 650 MB cd with the authoring).
I use dvd2avi to make a project and encode it with tmpeg (I use the wizard to find the right tuning). (With divx I only use tmpeg)