Help: Can i copy a DVD on to a single CD-R and play it on a

[*Rain]

Hey guys/girls,

Well this is so confusing me man, i was wondering and i have been trying to do this for ages is, is there anyway on earth that you can copy a DVD to a single CD-R and play the single CD-R on a normal DVD player. This will be most appreciated if someone can tell me how to do this or any how else how to copy a DVD to CD-R thanks once again ppl

[Baldrick]

No you cant, a DVD-Movie is from 3 to 7 GB so it is kinda difficult to fit it on one 650 MB CD. But you can convert the DVD-Movie to VCD or SVCD and you can play it on your DVD Player if your DVD PLayer supports it(check our DVD Player list).
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdtovcd.htm is one method to make a VCD,SVCD from a dvd source.

[vitualis]

If you movie is under 80min long, you can fit it on one 80min CD-R disc as a standard VCD (you can fit 90min on 90min media).

If your movie is longer than that, then there is no way of fitting the movie on one disc as a standard VCD.

Theorectically you could fit any length movie on one disc as a SVCD, but practically, a SVCD will fit even less per disc than a VCD if you value video quality.

You could create one of the variants of XVCD or XSVCD (i.e., non-standard VCD and SVCD) but this is not guranteed to play on any particular player.

Regards.