Making VCD's from DVD's

[episodic]

If I can live with quality similar to VHS, is there an easy way to put a movie on a CD as a VCD playable in my APEX player.

I know how to use DVD Shrink to get it to my harddrive and compress it somewhat.

I need to change it to an AVI file then use TmpGenc (what I have) to encode it as an .mpg

Alot of things I've found assumes you want real high quality, and they have guides for using two cd's.

I just want it on one cd if possible.

So we are talking about changing a 4 + gig movie down to 700 megs.

Can it be done?

 

[episodic]

Anyone?

 

[warcrow]

Try this one:

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdx-main.htm



Or this one:

http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/56/59/

 

[episodic]

Awesome - the 2nd link is what I've been looking for. . .

 

[BlueWeasel]

I've used DVD2SVCD (or DVD2VCD) and it worked great.

 

[rbV5]

Considering the cost of media, the price of burners, the time you'll spend re-encoding the video and the resultant degraded quality of the video. I really think you'd be happier with a DVD burner and DVDShrink.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Originally posted by: rbV5
Considering the cost of media, the price of burners, the time you'll spend re-encoding the video and the resultant degraded quality of the video. I really think you'd be happier with a DVD burner and DVDShrink.

WORD!

 

[goshdarnindie]

I use to do the 'ole DVD to 2VCD's. It takes forever and considering that not all DVD players will play the VCD, I am glad I spent the money on a burner and bought DVD XCopy before the company was closed down. Complete copy of a DVD in half an hour as opposed to all day the old way.

Synopsis: Buy a DVD burner

 

[Steve]

VideoHelp

 

[episodic]

I've had bad experience with DVD burners. I'm waiting for them to mature and all media to be reliable, like most cd media is.

 

[THUGSROOK]

i use dvd2avi to "serve" the dvd vob files to TMPGenc.
saves a long step, and works like a charm.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Originally posted by: episodic
I've had bad experience with DVD burners. I'm waiting for them to mature and all media to be reliable, like most cd media is.

Huh? You must've been out of the loop for a while. Buy a good writer, like a Pioneer, or a cheap, but still reliable one, like a LG, and then use *only* quality media, not bulk, and no-name, like Princo and generic stuff, and you'll be set. Use a slow burning speed. I've been burning DVDs for almost two year now - they all work, and the storage/price ration is definitely in favour of DVD-Rs.

On the contrary, I'd say the Cd-R market is becoming crappier, the media is of lower quality these days, and I see more manufacturing defects even in reliable brands, like Verbatim.

Add to that the low-quality of VCDs, and I really don't understand you for being so stubborn, really.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson

Originally posted by: episodic
I've had bad experience with DVD burners. I'm waiting for them to mature and all media to be reliable, like most cd media is.

Huh? You must've been out of the loop for a while. Buy a good writer, like a Pioneer, or a cheap, but still reliable one, like a LG, and then use *only* quality media, not bulk, and no-name, like Princo and generic stuff, and you'll be set. Use a slow burning speed. I've been burning DVDs for almost two year now - they all work, and the storage/price ration is definitely in favour of DVD-Rs.

On the contrary, I'd say the Cd-R market is becoming crappier, the media is of lower quality these days, and I see more manufacturing defects even in reliable brands, like Verbatim.

Add to that the low-quality of VCDs, and I really don't understand you for being so stubborn, really.

Because it has not been a while. I bought a top name brand 8x dvd writer drive. After having it for a few weeks, I managed to flash the firmware to the latest version. Then I went through 3 top name brand 5 packs of disks looking for one that worked. Including the 3 that came with the drive, I burned 8 out of 17 coasters due to data verification failing in Nero. I've never had data verification fail with a cd-r. Even cheap ones, although I use Ridata CD-R's. . .

 

[AnitaPeterson]

And may I ask, why did you have to futz with the firmware? I'm willing to bet that had to have something with it. You probably screwed up somewhere.

Seriously, did you ever stop to think about how many people out there are satisfied users of DVD-/+R, and never experienced the kind of problems you say you went through?