Help with burning bin to dvd

[mrdoctor]

hey guys i am having trouble here. I have a bin and cue file that is a movie I can watch it on my computer
what I am trying to do is burn this to dvd so i can play it on my dvd player and watch it on tv

recently I have been using vcdgear to rip the bin to get a mpeg then winavi to convert the mpeg to vob or vop whatever it is, i then goto nero and make a dvd-movie and place the video files in the proper folder, the dvd i end up with plays on my computer fine but when i goto a dvd player it freezes on the first frame

any help is much appreciated

[redwudz]

What type of video file is in the BIN/CUE? If it's a VCD it is DVD compatible except that the audio needs to be converted from 44.1Khz to 48Khz. I'm assuming you aren't doing a PAL to NTSC conversion also.

I usually just drop the VCD MPEG into TMPGEnc DVD Author and let it do the audio conversion, then author to DVD and burn. Alternately, you could use ConvertXToDVD or the older freeware version, DivxToDVD to convert the MPEGs to DVD. WinAVI isn't that great of converter. Nero isn't much better of an authoring program.

The problem with it not playing on a settop player, though, could be caused by the encoding, the authoring, the burning or the media or the player. A computer can play about anything, out of spec or corrupted and you will likely not see much difference. You need to look through your procedure and see where the problem lies.

There are lots of guides to the left for about any conversion and most any software available.

And welcome to our forums.

[kschang]

Why not just check if your DVD player can play VCD first? If it can, just burn a VCD and be done with it.

[mrdoctor]

would vcd be burnt to regular cd-r?
and thank you redwudz for the support

[mrdoctor]

would vcd be burnt to regular cd-r?
and thank you redwudz for the support

sorry for double post

[kschang]

Yes, if it's like 700 MB of so of an image, just burn to a CD-R and see if it'll play in your DVD player. MOST DVD players will play VCD's nowadays. It's back in the beginning of DVD's that some Toshiba's refuse to play VCD's. Apparently they think the US Market is too... high-minded for low-res stuff like that.

[aedipuss]

bin/cue is the usual "transporation" format for both vcd and svcd. and yes even if it appears to be up to 825mb it will fit on a standard cdr blank because it uses a different recording mode with less error correction. but you need to burn the bin using the cue file in an app like cdrwin or alcohol 120%. nero does not properly burn xa mode 2.

[jjbtnc]

Seeing as you have Nero

Go to nero burning rom (or nero smartstart and select burn image to disk) and select open and then browse to the bin/cue file and then burn it as is - this will create an exact replica of the original disk

This may be a vcd and you may therefore want to extract the video and make a dvd so....

What i do is - use a program like deamon tools to mount the bin file (which is a disk image) This sort of program makes a virtual dvd drive and when it mounts the image it appears to the pc as if the disk that the bin file came from, is in a dvd drive. Then in Nero you can - smartstart - select make dvd video - select import disk - select the virtual drive - a window will pop up where you can select the video . This video will now be in Nero and you can edit it, whatever to make a dvd.

if you don't want to install another program for the virtual drive you can use Neros virtual drive program which is at smartstart - extras - mount a disk image. Only problem is that it doesn't work on bin/cue files so.....

Go to nero burning rom (or nero smartstart and select burn image to disk) - first change the recorder from your dvd writer to the image recorder then select open and then browse to the bin/cue file (bin files should come with a cue file and it's normally the cue file you have to open) and then burn where you'll have to select a location and name for the image file that image recorder is going to make. This will convert the bin/cue image into Neros image type which from memory is a nrg file. This can then be mounted using Neros virtual drive program and the video extracted as expalined before.

One other thing - if you close nero after you've imported from your virtual drive you will find your video file in my docs, nero vision, captured video, cryptic folder name.
I often use this method (using a real dvd in a real drive !! ) to extract the video from a dvd into an mpg file.
If you have a video that is split into say 2 image files (often done to put a video on to 2 cds) you can do this for the first bin file and import into nero and then mount the second bin image file and inport that. You'll then have the video from both image bin files in nero and can edit and create a video of them both combined into one dvd.

Just be carefull using to many programs and accidentally converting from one lossy format to another.

[mrdoctor]

interesting thanks all i will try these methods out until it works and let you know which have worked
thanks alot

[mrdoctor]

i was able to use alcohol 120% and burn the image to cd-r
worked fine in my dvd player downstairs
kinda choppy in the dvd player upstairs but it works!!
thanks guys