Not sure where to post this?? If posted worng please move.

Anyway I have had success burning 3+ vcds onto a DVD. I usually can get three 60-80 minute vcds plus some short clips onto one DVD using the Sonic MyDVD that came bundled with the sony DRU-500a (version 4.5 maybe?)

It takes the compliant VCDs by adding them the same way as a dvd clip. I also have mixed and matched DVD & VCD source on one disk this way and they play on my sony & Apex DVD players.

It takes about twice as long as a DVD only authoring process since it transcodes the video & audio both on the vcds.

IE approx 2 hours for a full disk versus 1 hour on dvd captures done withing the Sonic program.

Quality looks good and it meets my criteria of easy to do. In other words much easier than encoding the vcd to dvd format. Easy since I just add my titles , click burn, save the project, choose the sony burner and walk away til I hear the drawer open. Or while its working creating menus, planning audio, transcoding etc. I surf the net and take the small hit on speed of authoring.

FWIW Using the Sonic to capture from the ATI and burn to the sony, no coasters yet.



Addendum:
I should add the reason I do this instead of just burning VCDs is that on a dvd I get smoother FF/rev as well as dvd menus to use. My Standalones play vcd, svcd, mpg, mp3 but for smoother ff and better menus I'm switching over to DVD.

Cheers