Re: [PLUG] Making Video-CD's

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Hi,

Not that movies are commonly traded in DivX and other formats and called
"VCDs", even when they are not.

To make True VCDs, you need to re-encode the videos onto VCD Compliant VCD
streams.  You can use Transcode or MEncoder to do this.  (If you wan tto
convert DVD into VCD you can use DVDRip too, which calls transcode).

You must convert the VCD Compliant MPEG files into .DAT files (Which are
just MPEG files with extra data correction built in).  You can use
VCDTools to do this.  After that, a somewhat special format is created, as
there are various auxillery files created to describe the CD (and menus,
etc. if needed).  I don't recall which program I used to do that (possibly
VCDGear).  the images can be burned with CDRDAO, or (I think) recent
versions of CDRecord.  Alternatively, if you want to convert a VCD someone
gave you into MPEG videos, you just run the .DAT files in the mpegav
folder through the DAT2MPG from vcdtools.

 thanks,
    noah silva

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, W. Chris Shank wrote:

> I have dozens of 30 second video shorts that I'd like to put on a CD-R
> to play in a DVD player. From what I understand, this is possible.
> However, I'm having a tough time finding OSS utilities or How-To's to
> help me do this. Anyone done this or know about it? Any hints or links
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris Shank
>
>
>
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