DVD to VCD on an old Pentium Pro machine?

[schwinn]

Ok no laughing guys....I'd like to be able to do DVD to VCD on this
old Pentium Pro 233mhz machine. I've got all the time it needs(yes i'd like a faster machine but has to wait)
lots of good guides on here and Smart ripper works fine. The problem is it seems all the next step programs require a machine with MMX....FlaskMPEG the older version seemed to be working and doing an encode using BBmpeg i think it's called but it wouldn't play with Windows media player nor my DVD player software that will play mpeg files normally. Help! Is this just impossible? thanks... Schwinn

[nfl2k2]

I think the 'smart rip-dvd2avi-tmpgenc' is the best way to go. try that and see what you come up with. also, how much hard drive space do you have free?

[schwinn]

I get the illegal action message that Microsoft is so fond of using for every thing that goes wrong. I jsut tried a fresh installed copy. Same as before no go. I for some reason think/thought this and everything I've tried needs a mmx cpu! Am I wrong?

[VideoGuy]

That URL for quick reference:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdtovcd.htm

May be bro, try turning off all MMX stuff in TMPGEnc and see if it runs. Will be slooooow, but you already expect that, right?

Good luck!

[schwinn]

Thanks for replying. Smartrippper works fine!
TMPGEnc & panasonic encoders both work fine apox 12 hours to make a VCD could be worst!
The part i'm, missing is DVD to something the encoders can use! They all seem to need MMX....