Making VCDs

[Guest ramsdell]

I want to make some VCDs but i need to have Real Media files converted to MPEG or AVI to make the files able to go to the CDs. So can anyone help me out?

[Guest theanswer1824]

get the lastest version of nero. it makes any mpeg, avi, rm to vcd. depending on the file though, you can only strore up to 2-8 clips depending on how big they are.

[JJMc]

VCDs are a waste of time. Seriously, you'll aggrevate yourself so much trying to make them work and then be left with a shit product. Sorry to come off like a dick, I'm just speaking from TONS of experience.

[Downhome]

Making VCDs are easy as hell.

 

Take a .MPEG/.MPG (MPEG1) file, make sure it's small enough to fit on a CD, use VCDEasy to create a .bin and .cue, then use Alcohol 120% to burn that file.

 

VCDEasy is your friend, if you learn how to use it the right way.

 

Use TMPGEnc to cut a film in half if you need to, to create two files the right size to burn.

 

A 700 MB CD will usually hold around an hour or so of video, so obviously you'll have to burn a movie to a series of discs. I've put various SNL skits, wrestling matches, etc... to a single disc and it works great.

 

If you have an .AVI file you want to burn, just convert it to a .MPEG.

 

I recently downloaded the (almost) three hour Best of the Dynamite Kid video, and burned the entire thing to a series of three VCDs, and it plays absolutely perfect on my DVD player and looks fine on my TV. I'd compare it to a VHS or something. I've burned a few foreign films to watch on my TV like this, including Shaun of the Dead. If the video file is widescreen, it'll show up like that on TV. If it's fullscreen like the Dynamite Kid thing that I have, it'll show up fulscreen.

 

Like I said though, it's easy as hell.

[Guest ramsdell]

I was Hopin that someone knew of a free converter that i could download because i can get MPEG files to cd I just cant get Real files to CD

[Downhome]

http://guiguy.wminds.com/downloads/tinragui/down.html

 

Try that.

[Vanhalen]

I dont understand this VCD thing, because I have a fairly new DVD player, and I can just drag and drop multiple MPEGs and MP3's straight over to it, burn the disc, and then when I pop the disc in, up comes this explorer interface, and I just click on what I want to play, hell it even reads PC DVD-ROMS and CD-ROMs, as long as their are playable files on their, such as jpegs/mp3s/mpegs/wmv's and so on

[JJMc]

I dont understand this VCD thing, because I have a fairly new DVD player, and I can just drag and drop multiple MPEGs and MP3's straight over to it, burn the disc, and then when I pop the disc in, up comes this explorer interface, and I just click on what I want to play, hell it even reads PC DVD-ROMS and CD-ROMs, as long as their are playable files on their, such as jpegs/mp3s/mpegs/wmv's and so on

Yes, most of the new higher end players can just play raw MPEG files without the need to encode them to VCD. Many, however, still do not have that capability.