Creating a VCD
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BitWit
Flash/JavaScript nerd
Do a search on Google, and you will find a site that has lots of info about which DVD Players (like the kind that plug into your tv) will actually play or wont play VCD's. For some particular models, you will need to use a specific BRAND of disc and record it at a specific SPEED.
The Building of a VCD is quite simple with toast. Toast will take your movie and make mpg data out of it with the proper aspect/resolution and help you create an INDEX to access the tracks with. I think they site is vcd.org or something.
The Building of a VCD is quite simple with toast. Toast will take your movie and make mpg data out of it with the proper aspect/resolution and help you create an INDEX to access the tracks with. I think they site is vcd.org or something.
Rhino_G3
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Personaly, I've stopped using the VCD format entirely. All movies that I now do are all either mpg4 or encoded with 3vix. I use 0SEx to Rip and DeCSS the video. It also demuxs the VOB to elementary streams... .m2v (mpeg2 video) and .ac3 (audio) I use DiVA to encode the video and mAC3dec to encode the ac3 to mp3. From there I composite the two resulting files in Quicktime Pro. If there are any Sync issues you can then use Sync-hole or QT Mutator to change the video framerate and duration to match the video with the audio.
BitWit
Flash/JavaScript nerd
You're right, at least for the U.S. VCD's ARE dodgy.
In Eastern Europe and Asia, however, VCD Players have been around for a long, long time, and most DVD players there will play VCD's too. Its a format that never caught on in the U.S...we're still holding on to the expensive low quality VHS format. America is a fickle market when it comes to home entertainment, hence no HDTV yet.
Not to worry, though, in a few months time, DVD-R will be the defacto no-brainer format for every user in every home....right?....uhh, right?
In Eastern Europe and Asia, however, VCD Players have been around for a long, long time, and most DVD players there will play VCD's too. Its a format that never caught on in the U.S...we're still holding on to the expensive low quality VHS format. America is a fickle market when it comes to home entertainment, hence no HDTV yet.
Not to worry, though, in a few months time, DVD-R will be the defacto no-brainer format for every user in every home....right?....uhh, right?
Rhino_G3
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I've done the VCD thing... My DVD players do support it. The main reason that I don't like it is two fold. In one situation you can have a low bitrate and horrid quality or two, you can have decent quality on 3 ot 4 CD's. Since I don't really like using multiple CD's and I can't stand low quality movies better compression seemed to be the way to go.
The only down side is there won't be any DVD players that will play mpeg4 disks for quite a while... although that really isn't too much of an issue for me.
I'm with you... I'm *REALLY* hoping that they'll standardize a writable DVD sometime soon!
The only down side is there won't be any DVD players that will play mpeg4 disks for quite a while... although that really isn't too much of an issue for me.
I'm with you... I'm *REALLY* hoping that they'll standardize a writable DVD sometime soon!