I downloaded a 700MB movie (Team America- World Police XviD DVD RIP) Its in avi format. Since a CD has 700MB storage i wanted to make a vcd with it but when i try to create it using nero, it seems to be more than 700MB??? Any thoughts or suggestions?
an avi needs to be converted to an mpeg1 file to be in the right format to be burnt to a cdr.However as the avi you are converting to mpeg1 is going to be larger than the target size of 700meg you will need to split the end mpeg1 to say 2 or 3 discs.This means that you can put 1 disc in, watch say 1/3 of the movie before you have to change to disc 2 to see the next1/3 of the movie and when thats finished put the 3rd disc in to see the completion of your movie. Do you not own a dvd burner?
do you have about 30 hours to play around with this? try this guide for starters: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd2svcd_guide.cfm
The fact that the source is 700MB's means nothing. VCD is 10MB's/min so only the length of the source matters. If the source is more than 80mins (as a VCD a 700MB CDR holds 800MB's) then it won't fit on one 80min CDR. This isn't the forum for VCD questions anyway, even says so in the description.
sorry celtic. My bad. I've actually never tried burning a dvd. I recently downloaded azureous and i get the movies off mininova.org. I use nero. should all these items be good for burning a movie or is there anything i am missing? except blank dvd's of course. LoL
I wouldn't use Nero for encoding. My advice would be to buy a MTK based standalone MPEG-4/AVI player. Burn the file as is. It should play fine, although you would need to post specs to say for sure.
Thanks for the advice, but it sounds like greek to me. LoL. Im not too into the high tech computer stuff, mostly playing games and dling music and movies. Whats wrong with nero...? It seems easy to use and all the vcd's ive downloaded turned out fine, except when the file is over an hour the audio isnt in sync with the people talking, but i think with dvd's that wouldnt happen. Would it?
you wouldnt believe this but yes on occasion even dvds are out of sync.It really depends on the file, format , and a whole lot of other varitables
cropa, listen to the original movie. There's no reason for a mpeg movie in-sync became out-of-sync. This, often, happens with AVI wich VBR MP3 audio. Nero is simple, but when you want convert a 600x400 25 fps AVI movie to NTSC SVCD or DVD (29.97 fps) it begins to show its limitations...
