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[skooterpig]

Please excuse my ignorance - but am new to this and was wondering if someone was able to help explain to me in plain English how i convert a mpeg to vcd so I can burn it onto a disk to watch thru my dvd player...I've tried using TMPG and whenever i start it it says it going to take over 200 hours just for a 4 meg video - please helppppp..

[next]

200 hours is about right.

[Vejita-sama]

First, take a look under 'Convert' to the left. Other good guides can be found at http://www.doom9.org and http://www.flexion.org/vcd.

(x)VCD use MPEG1 steams, and (x)SVCD use MPEG2 streams. I'm not sure what format your source is in (you called it a mpg) but it needs to be MPEG1/2 to play on your DVD player.

TMPGenc a popular program to convert/encode videos to MPEG1/2 streams (CCE is another popular choice).

Converting a video to MPEG1/2 is very CPU intensive. When I had a K62-500 it took me 18hrs to encode a 90min video. The size of the source material doesn't really matter, only it's runtime. With my new, Tbird 1.2Ghz it's ~1.1x the souce runtime. If you have a slow CPU and are running a lot of filters it will take a long time to encode a MPEG stream.

So all of that was an intro to:

1) What's the format of your source movie?
2) What's the system setup?
3) How are you trying to encode it? TMPGenc? if so what settings, template, filters, etc. etc. are you using.