Please help out a newb!!

[abs9986]

Ok, I have a slide show business, and part of my service is to put the slide show that I create using adobe premiere pro, onto a dvd.

The thing I am wondering is, since these slide shows are only about 300mb, can I somehow put them on a cd that could be read by the dvd player. this would save me alot of money. i tried making a vcd using premieres mpg encoder, but it would not read on my dvd player.

[abs9986]

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Any help is apprciated

[Fluffbutt]

Not 100% sure here, but you should be able to burn dvd files to a cdr and have a dvd player treat it as if it's a dvd.

There's nothing special about dvd's - it's really only about tightness of the spiral and space between bits. That's what give you the 4.5 / 9 gigs.

[Sparkplus]

Are you authoring dvds actually?
My Mintek DVD Player plays vcds and
Mpeg files on cdr but not Mpeg2.
For DVD discs it only plays Mpeg2 if authored
not Mpeg even if authored.

[Nelson37]

Sure, you can burn DVD file structure to a CD. It's called mini-DVD or CDVD. Roughly about 1% of DVD players will play it.

You could burn a VCD slideshow to CD with still images at 720x480 with about 85-95% compatibility. No FF or RW, though, just frame advance or retreat.

The bit density of DVD is EXACTLY what makes them "special".

[Fluffbutt]

Nelson - surely the bit density is irrelevant to what's actually written in that bit density (I agree it's what makes them special, but only as much as cd was special when it came out).

For eg - you should be able to write 4.5 gigs of jpg files and have the dvd player read them as a jpg slideshow (instead of 700 megs of jpg's on a cdr). My stand alone can play a cdrw with mixed vcd, svcd, vob, jpg, mp3 all on the one disc.

It's the dvd codec that makes a dvd movie, all a dvd disc does is give you the space for the movie - so if his dvd movies are <300 megs, they should run ok from a cdr.

I agree he'd need to author the disc properly - after all vcd's have to have a certain layout and file structure, so do dvd movies. I assume he already knows how to do that - he said he'd done dvd's already.

But your points are valid. Just that the physical dvd disc is rather irrelevant except for the space it provides.

[Baldrick]

It's the dvd codec that makes a dvd movie, all a dvd disc does is give you the space for the movie - so if his dvd movies are <300 megs, they should run ok from a cdr.

No, minidvd/cdvd doesn't work on all standalone/desktop dvd players. Most players cant identify cd media as dvd-video.

[Fluffbutt]

Baldrick...

I stand corrected.

Wierd tho, huh, you'd think it'd be the same either way (cdr/dvd), after all it's the coding that makes the movie... if it can read the movie why should it matter what the movie is on..

Mind you.. you're Baldrick...... need I say more!! LOL (just joking, big Blackadder fan here... hehehehe).

So, the best answer would be to try it out and see if it works - all he has to lose is one cdr at $.50 to $1.00 each. Mind you, EVEN if it works for him, it may not work for his customers.. mmmm he should stick to dvd's, and just charge the extra to cover them.. (if he is charging).