[ninty]

OK, I know there are a couple of VCD guys out there and I need your help.

I have never made a vcd before but I have been trying all day to get this damn movie to work.

I downloaded a movie in avi format. It was over 700 mb so I used some program i can't remember to cut the ending credits out to get it under 700mb. Now its at 655 or so. Now you can supposedly burn to vcd with nero 5.5 without converting it to mpeg. I tried that and I get to the end of the encoding process and it says "disk full". So theres one problem.

After i did that for a while I decided to convert the avi to mpeg using TMPGEnc, which I did. It was: 640 x 336, 136228 Frames, 29.970 Frames/Sec in avi format now after converting its: 352 x 240, 29.970 Frames/Sec NTSC MPEG-1. So thats no problem. I loaded that up into nero, I ahev NTSC checked off and i'm in VCD format for burning, it'll burn in about 10 mins at 8X on my HP9100 using win 98 after checking the file. everything will go fine but i'll try to run it on my dvd and it'll recgonize it as a VCD and it will try to play it but it gives kinda squeaky jerky sound and no picture. Sometimes it goes black and pixalates and it skips all over the place.

So i'm outta ideas. I've read pretty much every VCD guide out there and I can't understand why its doing this. Anyonne have any ideas or experience with this? Could it be my DVD player? I ahev 2 of them and it won't play on one for sure but the other one it should. It says it will run vcd's.

Thanks.

[ED! Ban #126]

Download them in Bin and Isos.

Sheesh.

[ninty]

Its from kazaa and I don't think you can find movies in that format there. And I already have the movie and it should work this way.

[cameltoe]

it might be up to your dvd player cuz mine is weird and will only recognize vcd's on a cd-RW, id try that if i was you

[McCoy 03]

I've only burned one VCD, that is an episode of That '70s Show. I can't seem to get VCDs to work anymore?

[ED! Ban #126]

Use MIRC - all vids come in BIN format....the only time i ever burned a mpeg to a cd it was porno and it took 10 hours.

[1080jibber]

i think you have to split the movie into 2 parts, and the convert the two parts to vcd, 1 movie 2 disks, [i think

you most likly been here [url:e81c7]http://www.dvdrhelp.com/[/url:e81c7] right?

they have lots of tutorials

[Brutal CarNage]

Make sure you record it in the slowest speed possible. The audio and video can be easily offset from each other when you record it at high speeds. Some DVDs can only play cd-rws as well.

[Hollywood]

You have to convert it to MPEG. You can go to http://www.vcdhelp.com and get TMPGEnc, as well as read the guide on how to do it. Chances are that the movie is DivX and it was meant to be played on the PC, which is why it is only 700MB. BTW, CD-R's can handle more then 700MB, it just depends on the compression. But, I would recommend not converting it to MPEG because the audio will most likely be out of synch. In the future, make sure they are MPEG/MPEG2 so you can just burn it as a VCD/SVCD. They usually say it in title. BTW, KAZAA is actually better then MIRC, because every noob and his grandma uses IRC to get files. It's just too slow. USe the newsgroups.

[Bazooka_Joe]

Rudedog might be able to help you out with this. He does alot of movie stuff. Maybe Gerard too.

[geRV]

Not really sure,i do more video making and editing than trying to burn them to discs and stuff like that. =/

[cameltoe]

yea ive been wanting to this for a while but i heard it took forever

[Bazooka_Joe]

Originally Posted by cameltoe

yea ive been wanting to this for a while but i heard it took forever

You're not kidding. Takes me 4 hours to encode a 1 hour movie to DVD. oOo: