redrope Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 anyone know where a tutorial on how to do this is? or can u tell me? my dvd player should play these, so i wanna try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hummer Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 http://www.vcdhelp.com/convert.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrope Posted March 21, 2002 Author Share Posted March 21, 2002 thanks a lot. has anyone actually done this? is it worth it? what does the quality look like on a tv? how long does it take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hummer Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 no more more then 8 hours takes me about 6 hours on my p3 733. You can only do 80 mins for a cd on a 80 min cd you're goign to have to cut the movie into 80 min sections for 80 min cds. Quality isn't too bad it looks better on the tv then it does on the computer so if you think it looks bad on the computer don't worry about it shoudl be fine on the tv.. sometimes it's a bit pixelated though but you can probably live with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 use tmpgenc from www.tmpgenc.com, then use nero to burn them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted March 21, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2002 i thoguht avi was vcd.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=NickJ= Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Originally posted by Toxikk i thoguht avi was vcd.... VCDs are MPEG-I and SVCDs are MPEG-II (same as DVDs but lower bitrate) TMPG Encoder is definately the best, but i would definately suggest converting to SVCD rather than VCD if you can, the quality difference is astounding (SVCD is close to DivX-DVD Rip quality, if not the same, whereas VCD is close to screener quality). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted March 21, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2002 thanks for the explinations. /me feels brain growing with knowledge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Verbose Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 nero burning rom will do it for you while it burns a vcd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 It really takes hella time though. I would suggest start doing it before you go to sleep. When you wake up, it "should" be done. Depending how many hours of sleep you get of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaos34 Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 yeah took me like 2 1/2 hours to convert around 40minutes... and for me, it was worth it - i converted half a divx movie into mpeg-2 format and burned it as an SVCD - quality was nice when i played it in my dvd player :D although it wasn't dvd quality because of obvious loss of quality and lower framerate, it was still pretty nice and enjoyable to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=NickJ= Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 Nero's in-built plugins to convert avi to VCD and SVCD (ok so you have to pay for the SVCD one - not sure about VCD) are very poor compared to external converters. Use TMPG Encoder to convert it, it even comes with SVCD (PAL and NTSC formats) and VCD (again PAL and NTSC formats) templates for settings, as well as allowing you to tweak it yourself. Convert with that then burn the created MPEG in Nero. should would perfectly (you'll have to play with the settings for a while to get it right tho). Also, TMPGEnc comes with an MPEG-splitter/joiner to split movies that are too big into 2 files (say for CDs) or join many MPEGs together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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