How do I play a Video Cd?

[nadizo]

I have a cd-r its a video cd i burnt from an IMAGE...

the contents are EXT, MPEGAV, SEGMENT, VCD

none of the folders have any mpegs in them... how do i play the movie?

thanks for any help...

[redwudz]

Does the MPEGAV have a file in there? That should be where the video is, it's called 'AVSEQnn.DAT'. What are you playing it with? Just about any player should have no problem with MPEG-1 files. Tell your player to play the '.DAT' file as a MPEG-1.

You can see the VCD format to the upper left in 'WHAT IS' VCD.

[Nitemare]

If you open Windows Media Player and then navigate to the video CD and select the DAT file in the MPEGAV folder it should play.

[SingSing]

Put it in a DVD player with VCD logo, and it should play it.

[yoda313]

Put it in a DVD player with VCD logo, and it should play it.

Some players won't read cd-r discs though. You would need a cd-rw disc. But those are few and far between these days but you may run into it.

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[nadizo]

Question, lets say i want to watch this on a dvd player would do i have to do, ? i want to burn it on a dvd disk and watch it on a dvd player...

thanks for the help guys ...

[redwudz]

If your DVD player won't play a VCD on a CD disc, you can extract out the MPEG-1 video from the AVSEQ.DAT and use that for the video and author the file to a DVD. (Or quick and dirty, change the .DAT extension to .mpg.) But I would see if the player would play the VCD first.

All you would need to do is to change the audio to a 48Khz sampling rate as a VCD uses 44.1Khz, which is not DVD compliant. You will waste a lot of DVD space as the VCD will only occupy 700MB of the 4.37GB DVD. TMPGEnc DVD Author will convert the audio automatically to 48K, if you have that on your system. Even the trial version will do that until it expires.

ConvertXToDVD would be the easiest or the older freeware DivxToDVD, or if you look to our guides in 'CONVERT' and plug in 'VCD to DVD' in the the window, you will see several different methods and software. It's really easy to convert.

[nadizo]

thanks for the help so far i appreciate it

is there anyway i can just download a bin/iso file and just burn that onto a dvdR and just be able to play that on a dvd player??

I have bin/cue sheets but when i try to burn them onto a dvdr it sais please inset cdr..

[kschang]

No, an ISO file is specific to the format. DVD video have a completely different format from VCD.

[redwudz]

No, it won't work. For one the CD VCD format is wrong for a DVD and your programs wouldn't let you burn it to a DVD, besides the audio being out of spec. You would have to extract the VCD from the ISO, then convert it to DVD format as above.

You might want to look to the upper left for 'WHAT IS' DVD and VCD. You will see they are entirely different structures. The players expect that exact structure. You can create a mini-DVD on a CD that may work on a few players, but other than that, you would have to convert the formats.