Help me, I'm clueless.

[mophead269]

Hi,

I have been searching the forum and faq's for answers to my questions. I was able to get some things figured out and others were only brushed over.

1. Anyway, I have a Sony Vaio and it has MS-XP as the operating system. I have used TMPGEnc to encode my files to an MPEG and edited them into 2 pieces. I am using NERO to burn the files to a CD. It seems to be successful, but when i try to play the CD and make sure that the file can be played back, it shows the DAT file. Windows Media Player does not recognize this. What do I need to do?

2. If I have a file in DIVx form, do I need to convert and encode the file to MPEG? If so, which one do I do? MPEG-1 or MPEG-2? Does the same go for AVI's?

3. Do most movies burned as a VCD take up 3 or more CD's?

I would appreciate any feedback. I know this has probably been discussed elsewhere, but I am not able to see the obvious due to my frustration.

Thanks in advance!

[tgpo]

Most movies in VCD take 1-2 cd's. The rest I can't tell you b/c you use a nasty PC.. j/k.

[poopyhead]

1. Anyway, I have a Sony Vaio and it has MS-XP as the operating system. I have used TMPGEnc to encode my files to an MPEG and edited them into 2 pieces. I am using NERO to burn the files to a CD. It seems to be successful, but when i try to play the CD and make sure that the file can be played back, it shows the DAT file. Windows Media Player does not recognize this. What do I need to do?

hey, sometimes this happens...install powerDVD or winDVD and they both can handle VCD/SVCD very well, mplayer (or could be CD-ROM) have hard time dealing w/ CDs burned in mode 2x/a (which is the mode u use to burn VCD/SVCDs))

3. Do most movies burned as a VCD take up 3 or more CD's?

depends on the bitrate you set, the higher the bitrate the bigger the filesize, the more CDs u need...if you're making a standard VCD 2.0, which has really crappy quality btw, i believe it's 1150 bitrate, you can fit more than 60+ min per CD