Burning to Vcd

[Pazzuzu]

Hi All,

I need help!.
[1]
My aim was to copy a Dvd into a Cd-R disc.

Iam having a combi Drive for reading & writing.So I ripped the Dvd using DvdDecryptor & the result was .Vob Files on my hard disc.(That was fast-30 minutes)
Then I used "AutoGK" software to convert it into a .avi file,the conversion took me 8 Hrs.
Could any one suggest a free software link for directly converting the "Dvd" content to .avi,which is FASTER & good.(I need only 1 audio language & ofcourse 1 subtitle of my preference to be copied as well).

[2]Now after all these work(Creating the .avi File).I decided to copy it to my Cd-R Disc,by using a "DirectCd" software.It told me to format the cd first,Which I did & now the cd freespace came down to 655mb & the .avi filesize is 700mb. So Iam not able to copy now.When I tried to copy the .avi file without formatting the CD, a message came that "The Drive is not Accessible".So thats why I formatted the CD.

What should I do to burn a Cd in this case.
Iam running on Windows Xp.
Could anyone suggest a free software to write the file into the Cd so that the freesize remains 700mb.


Would be nice if some one could answer these queries.

Thanks
Golden Girl

[Baldrick]

VCD???? you are making divx or xvid.

You could try fairuse 0.3 but I don't think it is that much faster.

[Pazzuzu]

I mean Iam writing to a Cd-R Disc.
How abt size more than 700 mb

[Ziffelpig]

You should have used dvd2avi+tmpgenc to convert the vobs to mpeg1(VCD)it would have saved you a step then used the mpeg tool in tmpgenc to split the mpeg file into two parts. VCD runs about 10mb per minute so 120 minute movie =1200mb.
Now to put that movie on one cdr-requires that you use a template for tmpgenc as you are not creating a compliant VCD.KVCD-templates are in the tool section but will lower the quality considerably, and not all standalone players will accept/play non standard or xvcd.
My preference would be to load the avi into tmpgenc select the vcd template(NTSC-PAL) depending on where you live, encode to mpeg, cut with the mpeg tools cut/merge and burn to two cdr
Do a search for VCD easy 1.5 its the last free version and will create bin/cue files of your mpeg(s) and has a burning engine as well.