Making VCD copies of a VCD

[ilesh]

I elected to have my wedding footage given to me in VCD form by the video company that recorded my wedding. This was so I could replicate the VCD with ease to send to friends and family.

I copied all the files from the original VCD to my hard drive. I tried to drag all this files onto Toast Ti but get an error message when I do so. So then I made an image of the files which I burned onto a new CD using Toast Ti. Toast would let me encode as a data file but not in VCD format. I burnt the disc as a data file and then tried it on my DVD player (which played the original disc without problems). Unfortunately the DVD player seems to think the disc I burnt is a CD and so I get no sound or picture.

How can I make VCD copies of my original VCD?

Thanking you in advance for your help.

Ilesh

[tgpo]

See if this helps at all
http://forum.vcdhelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=86109

[ilesh]

Thank you. I did a search and did find the above reference but still was not clear after reading it about how to make VCD copies.

A few wasted CD-Rs and a painstaking search on the net later I have pieced info together from several sources to get the process working so that one can make copies of a VCD that will work on commercial DVD players.

1. In OS 9.1 I started up ASTARTE CD-Copy 2.0.3e. I selected the second track of the VCD which was an mpeg. The first track was an iso. I saved the mpeg as Track 02 MPEG.mpeg on my HD. It is important to save the file as a .mpg file.

2. I then used VCDGear 1.6d ƒ to convert that mpeg file to an mpeg which i could play on my computer. I converted it with the .mpg -> .mpg option in VCDGear.

3. When you are doing .mpg -> .mpg conversions in VCDGear, the sector size of the source mpeg file must be 2324 or it will not work. You can verify the sector size by doing a .mpg -> .bin conversion and viewing output (but cancel right away with cmd-. ). If the sector size is not 2324 (most likely will be 2352) use the options "force read sector size" and set the value to 2324. Don't touch the "force write sector size" option.

4. This process produced a 590 MB movie that could play in Quicktime.

5. I then set Toast Titanium to VCD setting and draged and dropped this file into Toast. Burning this to CD-R gave me a VCD that is playable on commercial DVD machines.

If anyone knows of any simpler ways would be happy to hear about them.

Ilesh

[Betamax]

If you just want to have 1 to 1 copies (exact copies) of the original vcd, then you should try 'cloneCD'. It's a commercial program that makes exact copies of every cd (it does a bit-by-bit copy).

Oh yeah, sorry, saw too late this area is for mac - cloneCD is actually for I386 systems. If you have an emulator for such or you have a i386-system with windows on it, you should be able to do that copy.

[bloo]

i usually stop after step 1, just drop it into toast ti( after chossing video cd and burn it, plays in qt and on dvd players, bloo :-?

[AntnyMD]

Toast Titanium has a CD copy function and will work (better in OS 9 for VCDs) by making an image file of your current VCD. By making an image file you can then quickly (using a high-speed burner) make multiple copies of your VCD without having to reinsert the original VCD for each copy.