Faking dvd on cd-r

[freddy4u2envy]

Could someone please help me this, i heard that people have made an iso of a dvd and placed it on a cd-r. I'm trying to make a vcd play on the Xbox. Could someone show me how to do this.

[Kdiddy]

well first, this would be called a miniDVD of sorts...not a VCD..to learn how to make VCDs look at the "HOW TO" section to your left.

[freddy4u2envy]

Is there any way to make it a minidvd, but keep the same amount of video on it as a vcd?

[mijman]

Well, you should be able to make a mniDVD with VCD quality video. there's a guide for that too.

[Greg12]

Will X-box play mini-dvd?

[Douglesh]

I would seriously doubt it, not many things do

[freddy4u2envy]

Here's what this one guy said at this other website for the xbox. there have been many failures though. I was wondering if someone could help me interpret all this.


VCD's will work if you use a DVD editor/mastering program to write the necssary "other" files to make a vcd look like a dvd ( the ifo's, layout etc.. ) i took a vcd used a dvd mastering program on a Mac g4 at work ( was only thing handy and i was doing a arcview reload so i had time to waste on a mac pos ) i made the mpegav.dat the "content" of the dvd and then wrote it out.. it added the ifo files and made the ts_video dirs etc.. corrctly so that it was a "dvd" but i burned the image to a plain cdr and it works fine on both a regular dvd player and the xbox.. for all intents it is a dvd except for the media.. but it was alot of work.

I grabbed a demo of Ulead Video Studio 5 and i converted a vid thats less than 30 secs to a MPEG2 DVD compliant video. Then, i used the demo of Ulead DVD movie factory to burn this dvd to a cd-rw. I popped it in my Xbox, and it was all choppy. Dont know why, dont know how to fix it. Both the audio and the video were choppy. I also had it make a ISO of it and it turned out to be 17mb. I think we need to get divx workin on it. DVD just takes up waay too much space. VCDs dont work, dvds work somewhat, we just gotta make our own way. On another note, I saw something about the .5mb rom chip in the xbox remote possibly containing the app to play dvds. It couldnt be because if I take my remote elsewhere in my house or take the batteries out, itll still play the movie. Its gotta be in the reciever thing if newhere. Id be happy to upload the ISO somewhere. Just tell me where and ill do it.

[mijman]

don't change the VCD files to mpg2. That leaves you with, essentially, a miniDVD with a small frame size, instead of a VCD with DVD structure that you want. (Hmmm...I'll have to try that )
BTW, it's possible that you'll have to demux and re-encode the audio to DVD quality for your authoring program to take it.

[freddy4u2envy]

thanks guys.