Author a DVD in VCD format?

[twinc]

Sort of a strange question...

Since DVD players don't care about PAL or NTSC when playing VCDs. Is it possible to author a DVD, with basic menus, using the VCD format? Basically, make the DVD player into thinking that you've got a extra long VCD.

So the DVD wouldn't contain the typical DVD-VIDEO file structure (AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS), it would be a data DVD with the VCD file structure (MPEGAV...). Ideally, the authoring package could write finished data to an ISO image to preserve any formatting necessary to make the DVD look like a VCD.

This could potentially be an alternative to having to convert from PAL to NTSC.

[mats.hogberg]

No. The other way around works, but not VCD on DVD media. If a certain player accepts both NTSC and PAL VCD (not all do) it should accept NTSC and PAL DVD too. What it might not accept is the RPC of the "non native" DVD, but RPC can easily be (and is mostly by default) removed and/or changed by ripping/reauthoring.

/Mats

[proton]

What you can do is insert all your VCD mpeg files in TMPGENC DVD author and then author the vob files and burn them on DVD video.
This way you can put 6 hours on 1 DVD. Works perfect

[andydd]

VCD format..Mpeg1/low bitrate/352 x 288 rez IS a legal format for DVD. So you can fit many hours on a DVD. The only thing that needs changing is the audio from 44.1 to 48 khz.

[mats.hogberg]

VCD format..Mpeg1/low bitrate/352 x 288 rez IS a legal format for DVD. So you can fit many hours on a DVD. The only thing that needs changing is the audio from 44.1 to 48 khz.

...but that wasn't the issue - it was to author a VCD on DVD media, not to use VCD mpeg to author a DVD...

/Mats