IT WORKED!! BUT TOOK FOREVER

[lwms]

woo hoo! I made my first vcd. after dayz of reading all the posts i finally took the plunge. i used nero5 for avi only. it did everything -- but took over 16 hours for one file pic quality from avi file was way better than i expected. so i guess i have to upgrade to faster cpu. right now i have compaq 500mhz AMD K-6. any suggestions w/o spending lots of cash. btw i burned 1st avi to yamaha cdr -- worked great, full screen pic, good sound. burned 2d to memorex cdr -- pic not as good, audio good but pic froze. so i don't know if it was because of cdr or file. again thanks for all you guys out there for helpful posts.

[Kdiddy]

Athlon XP 1500 w/ ECS K7S5A ~160-170 US dollars via pricewatch.com....bury that old K6..LOL

[hhendrix]

I am a newbie as well and learned some painful lessons. Like you I spent hours and hours waiting for the program to re-encode my mpeg or avi files to vcd format.

after many many hours and emails i figured out a better way. I used Dazzle DV II to capture my video (from camcorder or vcr) into MPEG 1 22mbps. Then I used Nero to make a VCD, very important that you unselect make a standard vcd compliant CD option in the first tab otherwise every file you select Nero will try to re-encode which will take hours. by having the original files in mpeg 1 which is vcd compliant then i don't have to re-encode and can usually finish making a vcd in 10 minutes at the most.

my problem at the moment is that sometimes the audio/video skips not sure why yet...perhaps a setting i need to adjust. the original mpeg file plays perfectly on my pc.

[w00kiee]

i have a k6-2 366 (running at 375) and they suck.. if you upgraded from the 500 to a duron 750 your encoding rate will almost double ( no my math isnt wrong - k62's suck that bad) tcwo.com has mobo/cpu/fan combos for as low as $120.. (950 mhz) and arent too bad going up from there.

hhendrix - im hoping you mean 2.2 mpbs 22 would be pretty kick ass but would take a pretty fast drive in your player (like 20x for cd)

check your vbv buffer size.. that may (or may not) be an issue