How do you think this individual did this?

[tberte]

He got 100 episodes on six discs? That is somewhere in the range of 16 episodes per disc and he says with good quality. What do you think was his trick?

And also....Is this legal(What he is selling)

[Gazorgan]

Legal selling? Absolutely not. Without knowing anything it's not legal to sell something you don't have the rights to. And 100 episodes implies it's TV shows.

Quality is probably shit. Plain and simple.

How to do it? Very simple to get 8 hours per DVD. For NTSC land you use MPEG2 video at 352x240, witt 128 Kbps sound, 2-pass VBR with an average around 1000 and peak around 2500. Quality is superior to VCD and about par with VHS.

[VCDHunter]

He got 100 episodes on six discs? That is somewhere in the range of 16 episodes per disc and he says with good quality. What do you think was his trick?

And also....Is this legal(What he is selling)

WTF are you on about ?

[tberte]

Sorry guys...Here is the link, It's on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3386092850&category=27341

[jeex]

werent ducktales episodes like 10-13 minutes long? because i think it was 2 episodes + commercials per 30 minutes.

either way, they probably used vcd spec video on the dvd. vcd spec video is within the dvd spec, but it wont play on every dvd player (ps2 for example).

i was able to get the entire 7th season of southpark on one dvd using vcd spec video & ac3 audio (DD 2.0 192kbps), i only used about 3.5gb too.

[tberte]

Why doesn't ebay remove sales like this?

[NYPlayer]

Ebay doesn't care. I can even put my mother-in law up for auction

[Nolonemo]

Ebay doesn't care. I can even put my mother-in law up for auction

Isn't that a reverse auction? The winner is the one who wants the least to take her off your hands.

[babyboo]

If she is anything like mine I couldn't give her away with a free tank of gas

[SLK001]

Ebay doesn't care. I can even put my mother-in law up for auction

Well, they DO care. Just report the auction as an illegal auction and they will terminate it.

Six half-hour episodes (about 25 minutes each) would only be 150 minutes, which can easily be done on a DVD with excellent quality (and at full resolution).

[tberte]

Ok...Please help me then. That is exactly what I want do. That is why I posted it in the Newbie section.

I'm getting that outstanding Canopus converter, but just need to convert them and burn them for my own converting.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Those VCD's are probably bootlegs,also did you notice where the seller is located?Greece.

[Gazorgan]

It's a scam. Twice is says VCD. It even says that VCD's play in most players but not all.

Ductales was 1 ep per half hour, so let's call it 20 minutes each. That's 4 eps per CD (it distinctly says 6 disks), so there's no way theya re tru VCD's.

That means they have to be VCD's on DVD to get 100 eps plus the movie onto 6 disk. 100 eps is about 33 hours, plus the movie. So my 8 hours per disk is right for MPEG2. For True VCD (MPEG1) you get a bit over 6 hours per disk (510 minutes isn't it, I'm at work). Disney has never released VCD on DVD's (no reason to slight quality when DVD's are cheap to make). Taht means it's self burned, thus illegal. That assumes he didn't just download them all and convert.

Definately an illegal auction.