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| How to make a VCD playable in your DVD player (out of all those video clips you have.) |
| Okay so I had a lot of clips I had gathered over time, but the only way I could show them was to boot up my laptop and have everyone gather around. Thanks to inspiration by shows like The Screen Savers I figured out how to put this stuff on a disk I can play in most any DVD drive (more on that later) This is the straight forward method I chose, no frills and it works cleanly. After you experiment, you can probably do more advanced things. |
| Hardware: I used a 400 AMD 64Megs ram and a lot (5 gigs) of free hard drive space. Software: AVI2VCD.exe FlaskMPEG.exe VIR2.exe (Virtual Dub) This site is a great resource for finding the above software. (There is good stuff to read too) Quicktime Pro 4.0 (needed only if you have quicktime videos, but has a lot of features) Adaptec Video CD Creator and Easy CD Creator 4.0 (comes with EZCD creator deluxe, don't know about the others) |
| Here is the only tricky part. My DVD player (old Sony DVP-S3000) will play only CD-Rs in either Joliet or ISO9660 format (more on that later). My neighbors DVD player (a brand new Sony 330 or something like that) will only play CD-RWs and I think, only in the ISO9660 format. (also I have tested a new JVC, same thing, only plays the silver CD-RWs) A quick test is to cut an audio cd that will play in your home stereo or car stereo. If that cd will also play in the DVD player then you can use the CD-Rs. Otherwise you will have to try CD-RWs. Note: You can only write to a CD-R OR CD-RW once. The DVD player will not read it when written on more than once...even erasing a CD-RW doesn't work. |
| -Why... -How to start... -How to convert MPEG (.MPG) to .AVI... -How to convert .AVI to VCD format... -How to create the VCD... -Odds n ends... Subtitles? Home Index |
| (I just found this link you may want to look at, it has some more advanced VCD Stuff in it.) |