> I was wondering is it possible to burn > (with Nero) a 681 meg VCD onto a 650meg/ > 74 min. CD-R(Gigastorage)..
> I was wondering is it possible to burn > (with Nero) a 681 meg VCD onto a 650meg/ > 74 min. CD-R(Gigastorage)..
of course it is! that 681mb mpeg is equivalent to only ~68 minutes worth of audio/video data and since the capacity of the disc is 74 minutes, it will easily fit.
hitechjunkie posted 2001 Aug 02 13:11
spidey posted 2001 Aug 02 13:25
> You can fit up to roughly 78 minutes on an 80 minute cdr if it is to VCD > spec's....71 or so on a 74 min cdr. You need to leave some room for the file > structure of the disc....
i can usually get ~737mb (73 minute) mpegs on 74 min discs. on 80 min discs, i can usually burn mpegs up to ~789mb (78 minute) in size.
hitechjunkie posted 2001 Aug 02
I overburn in nero and can get 82 minutes on an 80min disc with a menu screen aswell, Ive started burning onto 90+ min discs and can overburn up to 95 mins of movie a great thing to behold…
likkletree posted 2001 Aug 02 16:22
(by default, Nero has overburning set to 76 minutes, that's why i said specify if you want a different max. time.)
Sine29, Aug 18, 2002
Been sifting through the feedback to the first VCD/SVCD copy-protection guide and found that a few people have had compatability issues.
Tried the method on a friends DVD player and it wouldn't play, so obviously it is all down to your DVD player.
The following method of copy-protection uses a program called FreeLock v1.3.
Instead of adding dummy files, FreeLock 1.3 changes the order of the tracks prior to copying, this makes the resulting VCD/SVCD almost impossible to copy.
I have tried this method on my own DVD player and 3 of my friends DVD players and found that the copy-protected VCD/SVCD will play no problems.
If someone does copy the protected VCD/SVCD, they will be able to play the VCD/SVCD in their DVD players for about 5 seconds, with choppy picture and full of green lines, and then it will freeze completely.
The followings tools are required for this guide:
CDRWin FreeLock 1.3
Extract all files to a common folder as the program will create a "FreeLock Diskette" for you to run the program from.
You'll need to create an un-protected VCD/SVCD first, so do that in your favourite way.
Then, open up CDRWin and create a .cue file from your un-protected disc, save it to C:
Goto Command Prompt and type:
A: (enter) FreeLock (enter).
The usage of FreeLock is pretty basic. At the command line type:
freelock c:\image.cue
Finally you must burn your modified image.cue file onto CD. Remember to keep the FreeLock diskette in your A: drive.
If CDRWin gives you an error at the end of burning your modified .cue file (99%-100%), ignore it the data will have already been written and the VCD/SVCD play perfectly.
Done!
A long time ago, I wrote a gui for Freelock, which was then used to copy protect the psx backups
The program is called PFUI (for PSX Freelock User Interface), and you can find it here: http://www.gamefreax.de/cgi-bin/gamefreax/tools.pl?function=showfiles&system=Playstation%201 under PFUI
or here http://www.megagames.com/psx/psx_utils_misc.shtml under FreeLock GUI v0.3.
Masticore
> Is it necessary to create a .cue file in CDRWin, then record it using > CDRWin, or can I use VCDEasy to creat the .cue and to record?
Since VCDEasy creates CDRWin compatible images, you can use it.
> Can i use same method for (DVD video , Software & Game CD)
I only know about PSX for sure. Didn't know (until now ) that it works with vcds, too. AFAIK you can't use it for software or audio cds
> Can i reopen loack if I want to copy my protactd DVD/VCD/CD
Yes. Actually it is pretty easy. You can extract the non-dummy track with CDRWin. You could also use (but I've never tried) IsoBuster to extract the .mpg-file only.
> [Error-message:] start dao recording comand file on device 1:0:0 Cueshet > was rejected by the CD-ROM recorder
did you move/rename the .cue or .bin file?
did you use spaces/special chars in the filenames?
have you checked the .cue file (with a texteditor), if the name and path of the .bin file matches exactly?
do you have a HP or Sony writer? If yes, check the freelock homepage for info
Masticore
here is a note from the Freelock documentation:
Quote: Can I use Freelock to protect audio/PC/VCD discs?
No. These formats, unlike PSX discs, can be copied on a file-by-file or track-by-track basis. Freelock can only be used to protect discs which can normally ONLY be copied in disc-at-once mode. PC and audio CDs can be copied by selecting only the tracks you want, or by copying the files on the CD instead.
This site contains various guides on how to backup a DVD movie to VCD with FlaskMPEG using the following encoders: bbMPEG, Panasonic, LSX, and Cinema Craft Encoder SP. The guide on bbMPEG will explain all the necessary details needed in the other guides, so be sure to read the guide on bbMPEG FIRST. The guide on TMPG will show you how to create a VCD with Xmpeg using the video server method. There is also a guide on converting a DVD to SVCD using DVD2SVCD and TMPG.
There's a DivX guide for those who want to know how to convert a DVD movie to DivX format which has picture quality that's almost as good as DVD. The only downside to that is that you can only watch it on your computer where a VCD or SVCD can be played on most DVD players.
Finally, we have DVD encoding and authoring guides. With DVD burners now available and dropping in price, you can now backup your movies on a DVD-R that can be played on your standalone DVD player.
The version of FlaskMPEG on this site is not the original package of FlaskMPEG. It contains the LSX, Panasonic, and CCE plugins which are commercial products because I already put them in for you.
9/06/02 - I added two new guides on how to make VCD using TMPG and CCE standalone encoders.
8/06/02 - I have finally added a guide on encoding and authoring a DVD that can be played on your standalone player.
8/03/02 - Added a new guide on creating SVCD with TMPG
7/31/02 - Added new guide on creating VCD and SVCD with chapter menus.
7/24/02 - Corrected a minor typo in the bbmpeg guide. NTSC resolution was written as 542 x 240 which should be 352 x 240.
6/23/02 - Fixed audio bitrate error in VCD guides. Valid audio bitrate is 224 kbps, not 192 or any other bitrate,
Last updated 5-29-03
When people talk about burning movies on disk, you probably think of DVDs. After all, the DVD format is very popular in the US and many over-hyped computer commercials taut how easy it is to burn your movies onto a blank DVD disk.
However, burning a DVD is not necessarily an easy or inexpensive endeavor. While the price of computer DVD writers and blank disks are coming down rapidly (and will soon be as ubiquitous as CD-writers), burning your own DVD can be pricey. DVD writers cost about $300 and good DVD media still costs over $4 (8 dollars in the store).
To further confuse the picture, DVD (as a recording format) has not yet matured. There are several different disk formats (DVD-R, DVD+R, and DVD-RAM) and each has variable compatibility with set-top DVD players. In addition, every brand of blank DVD has different compatibility ? a homemade movie burned onto a Verbatim DVD-R may play on different DVD players than the same movie burned on a Pioneer DVD-R.
If you don?t want to spring for a DVD writer, there is a cheaper alternative. Using your computer?s CD-writer you can burn your movie onto a normal CD-R blank, and create a VCD, or ?video cd.? This format is very popular in Asia, and has been around longer than DVD. Part of VCD?s popularity is that these movies are burned onto normal CD blanks ? cheap CD-R?s that you can buy for 15 cents each! The affordability of VCDs allows you to experiment and distribute your video to friends at very low costs. These VCDs will play in most tabletop DVD players, though some older DVD players have problems recognizing them.
The video quality of a VCD is much lower than a DVD. That?s because a CD-ROM can only hold 650 Megs of data, compared to DVD?s 8 gigs (for a dual-layer DVD). To fit video into that tiny space, VCD video is highly compressed and runs at 352x240 resolution (compared to DVD?s resolution of 720 by 480). The picture quality for a VCD is roughly comparable to VHS tape. However, with VCD?s you may see some compression artifacts (edge blockyness) during dark, fast-motion scenes. VCD sound quality, however, is excellent and full stereo.
A VCD can only hold 76 minutes of video, so VCD movies are typically split over two CD?s. You can think of a VCD as the video equivalent to an audio CD ? as they both hold only 76 minutes of data.
To make a VCD, you need to encode your video into VCD-compliant MPEG1 video file. Many video editing software packages will let you export your final movie directly into this video format, and some will even burn the VCD for you. The major burning software (Roxio and Nero) will both burn VCDs, though you may need an encoder to create the MPEG1 file first.
MPEG1 video is a compression algorithm that yields very good video at low bit rates. Better yet, it?s non-proprietary (neither Microsoft, Apple, nor Real own it) so you can think of MPEG compression as the video equivalent of MP3 music compression. DVDs themselves are encoded with second generation MPEG2 compression format — this encoding format yields fantastic quality, but generates large files sizes and takes more processing power to encode/decode.
To convert my digital video files into VCD, I either export the video out of Adobe Premiere as a VCD file, or I use the TMPGE Tsunami encoder. This encoder is a great piece of software that I use almost daily to convert my digital video DV-AVI files into MPEG1 files for VCD and MPEG2 for DVD. I can also compress my videos into smaller MPEG1 files for watching on my PocketPC.
After encoding your video(s) into the appropriate MPEG1 format, you can then burn it onto a CD-R. To burn a VCD, you have to tell your burning program to specifically burn a VCD. You can?t just copy the files onto a CD-ROM and expect it to play … the way that VCD?s are burned is much different than a normal CD-ROM. You have to tell your burning software to specifically burn a VCD. Fortunately, most burning software have helpful wizards to walk your through this.
Once you?ve created your VCD you can pop the disk into your DVD player and watch it. Keep in mind that DVD players can be finicky when it comes to home-made VCDs (this is also true of home-made DVDs) and you may have to experiment with different brands of CD-R media until you find one that your player likes. To find out which media is compatible with your DVD player, you may want to read the user-comments left at VCDhelp.com. From my experience, the cheapest CD-Rs seem to work the best. Also, among the DVD players that I?ve tested, the Sony?s had the most problems recognizing disks, while my Pioneer player will read anything you throw at it.
SVCD, or ?Super video CD,? works just like a VCD and is also written onto blank CD-Rs. However, SVCDs are created with the higher quality MPEG2 compression (similar to DVD encoding) with higher 480x480 resolution. The resulting video looks much better than VCDs, but still worse than DVD. Using this format, you can fit about 35 minutes of video onto a CD. Fewer DVD players can actually play SVCDs, but if yours can, then this is a great format for showing off your home movies to friends as the video quality is pretty great.
Hi, is there a way of making a vcd that is on a cd-r or cd-rw play on a dvd player without the dvd player being compatible with cd-r or cd-rw disk's. Is there a code you can put in so that it will work on any dvd player. Cause i bought a vcd that was copied onto a cd-r and i was able to play this on my dvd player how is this possible if the dvd player can't play cd-r or cd-rw media, is there a code you can put on the disk so that the dvd player can play them..?
Tom, January 05, 2002
This is not possible. The reason the CD-R plays on your DVD player is quite simply that your DVD player supports CD-R media. There is nothing you can do if a DVD player doesn't support CD-R media. It's a very complicated technical issue, but it has to do with the fact that players that support CD-R have a second laser beam dedicated to playing CD-R and CD-RW discs and players that lack a second laser do not play these discs.
Jason, January 07, 2002.