WIN XP / VCD PROBLEM--PLEASE HELP

[DrNachi]

I AM USING WINDOWS XP AND I HAVE A DVD ROM AND A CD WRITER. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE VCD'S FROM DVD MOVIES AND FROM DOWNLOADED MOVIE FILES. I CANT GET ANYTHING TO WORK WITH WIN XP. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME SOME SOFTWARE I CAN USE WITH WINDOWS XP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[q1aqza]

More info would be useful. Are you using a 3rd party burner s/w such as Nero ? Have you downloaded the latest drivers for XP? Have you downloaded the necesary codecs for the downloaded movies?

[DrNachi]

I was using clone cd , but i will get whatever s/w might be compatible with win xp to use for this. i am not sure about the codecs. i can watch the d/l movies with media player and they work just fine. when i look up the file extension it just says movie file. i know this isnt a lot of info but im pretty new to all of this. i have tried some freeware/demo programs like easydivx,directdvd and dupdvd but they all have some aspi layer problem. either winxp doesnt use an aspi layer or its incompatible.

thanks for the reply

[q1aqza]

There are various products to use but the most popoular are the freeware ones - TMPGenc for encoding the MPEG files and VCDEasy for burning the VCD on your writer.

I personally haven't used VCDEasy but I have read good things about it and it is FREE. I use TMPGEnc v.2.53 to encode my home movie files to MPEG (MPEG1s for VCD and MPEG2s for SVCD) and I burn with Nero version 5.5.8 which is one of the strongest burners on the market - you can download a demo version of Nero from www.ahead.de. There are links on this site for downloading TMPGenc and VCDEasy. I have just upgraded to XP Pro and Nero and TMPGenc work fine.

I hope this helps.

[dup-dvdman]

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