How do I make a copy of a VCD MOVIE to a CD-R?

[budz]

Hi, I would appreciate some advice on how to burn vcd movies to a cd-r. I downloaded a program that converted the dat files to mpegs. I burned it on a cd-r but it does not play in my standalone dvd player that supports vcds. It did show 5 chapters on my dvd player's panel.Is their a guide I could use to teach me how to burn vcds? I would appreciate the help. This is all new for me. Thanks!


budz

[kitty]

VCDs (for the most part) do not have copy protection. You can use any disc buring program like Nero or RecordNow or many others to do a disc to disc copy or do a disc image (.iso) copy and allow you to burn that image to a new disc. Extracting the MPEGs from the DAT files and reauthoring is the hard way but if you want to do that work you should look into VCDimager tools at http://www.vcdimager.org/guides/vcdimager_tools_gui.html

[budz]

Thank you for the help. I just burned it from (iso) it plays fine on my computer but for some reason it is all jumbled on my apex 1500 dvd player. Do you have any ideas why it would do that?

[KingJohn]

try this

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/135238.php

Oh and you dont need to convert the .dat file to mpeg's they are already mpeg's Most Authoring programs will take them as they are, including Nero. they might even complain if there is something wrong with them.

Sounds like your mpeg's are not fully compliant, or the program you used to convert them made a mess of them. If you need to do anything with them use TMPGEnc (it will also load .dat files)