Playing Videos IN you DVD drive from a Burned CD-R

[mike511]

I was wondering if there was a way to take a movie on your computer and somehow burn it to a cd-r that would make it playable in a DVD drive like say for a hometheater setup? I was thinking of backing up some old VHS tapes that are getting old to dvd, but i don't want to spend the money on a dvd-rw cause right now they are expensive. I have everything i need in my computer to back up my VHS's except the dvd burner, but i'm getting a plextor 12x10x32 scsi burner this month and was wondering if there was a way to make movies on a cd-r play in a home theater dvd player. Thanks.

[otheos]

with MPEG4 compression you can fit almost 2 hours of HQ movie in a CDR, but wont' play on your DVD deck. Try Video CD for that,

[Szech]

Otheos is right. With VCD format, a CD-R would be usable in a stand alone DVD player. However, you need to use the standard size and bitrate for the VCD, which means that you won't be able to fit more than 74 minutes on one CD.

[mike511]

COOL!! So that Will work then. If i had say an hour program that i wanted to save. If i saved it on my computer as a VCD file and then burned it to a cd-r it would play in a stand alone dvd player then. AWESOME!

[canit]

CD's hold 74min of audio but only 20min of audio/video in the VCD format.

[mike511]

****!! IS there any way to cram more than 20 mins of audio/video in VCD on a CD-R???

[johnqp]

Oops! Never mind - I was going to ask a silly question. (how big would a 2 hr video/audio be at MPEG 4 - obviously around 640 Megs if it fits on a standard cdr)

[This message has been edited by johnqp (edited 12-06-2000).]

[stevepbnk]

Go here for all the help you'll ever need in making VCD's for play in a DVD!http://www.vcdhelper.com/
And YES, you can put ALL the sound and data for 74 minutes on 1 cd...I have tons of them..just get the tmpge software from the above site to turn captured MPG's into a VCD compliant MPG size and data-bandwidth. Then use NERO to burn the video cd mpg1 into a vcd format(you cant just burn a mpg onto a cd)EZ cd makes coasters..nero doesnt. Works beautifully!

Steve


[This message has been edited by stevepbnk (edited 12-06-2000).]

[M_Six]

I haven't tried this yet, but I'm about to. It's called SmartRipper.
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/smart-ripper.html

It claims to rip DVD's into avi. files which can then be burned onto a CD-R. I'll let you know how it turns out.

[camaro]

In .mpeg you will need 2 cds to make a movie, in .avi 1 cd, in .asf 1/2 cd. Don't use .asf quality sucks.

[otheos]

VCD is a standard format (white book) and it is not as simple as taking an MPEG file and burn it on a CDR.

Most burning programs will encode any source of video (avi, mpeg at least) to white book standards and burn it. A VCD can hold 74min of Video at 340x288 for PAL at 25fps with 44KHz 16bit stereo sound Quality is not as great as VCR but it's cheap and will last (and you can share with everyone).

[Warthog]

Hey...someone wanna hook me up with MPEG-4?
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Warthog

[mike511]

Hey warthog go here for all your codec and other video needs.
http://www.geocities.com/codecwarehouse/videotools.html

mike

[RobRich]

Check out this link for more info and downloads regarding the MPEG-4 codec:

http://divx.ctw.cc/

Good Luck,
Robert Richmond