WTH am i doing?

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:14 pm

I wanna take a simple .avi clip and burn it to a CD so my mom can watch it on the DVD player, how do i do it, what type of disc, and i dont wanna download anything, cause last time i downloaded something it ended up being spywere and it just screwed things up!

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:27 pm

Do you have Nero? If so, it'll do what you want, it even adds in a little DVD meno so you can put in photos and chapters! Quite good really! Mine was free with my DVD-RW, but unfortunately I'm getting problems writing at the moment. My whole PC is screwy at the moment - Have to get the graphics card sorted out because it's causing everything else to pause momentarily.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:25 pm

no, i prefer not download anything more atm, this pc is gettin messed already........anyways wuts the link(just incase)

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:56 pm

Are you going to be using SVCD (On a CD) or a DVD?

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:29 pm

on a cd-r.....i talked with lethegirth (think thats his name dont get me wrong).....he had me download some program but it keeps tryin to encode it to MPEG-2 but it says my player wont play that....+ It keeps giving me a "cannot load preloadable.dll" error

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:55 pm

Nero have a cut-down version of their software that's free, and usually bundled in with aftermarket CD and DVD writers. See if you can get a copy from someone (As it's free), or download a demoversion of Nero 6 from www.nero.com. The software isn't expensive, so if you like it, and you're goping to use it a lot, you can buy it afterwards.

lethelgirth87 · Post by **lethelgirth87** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:00 pm

or....the other option i told truggy was to get the TMPGEncoder free from http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html or also you can get the Ha! Cd Burning Manager which has a free one year trail! you can download it from http://www.mars-tech.com/acardsw.htm Good Luck!

ShockTheWorld · Post by **ShockTheWorld** » Sun May 09, 2004 11:05 pm

another thing to note, not all dvd players can handle vcds or svcds, Nero works for me when amking svcds.

Caveman · Post by **Caveman** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:17 am

Nero have a cut-down version of their software that's free, and usually bundled in with aftermarket CD and DVD writers

I assume you have a CD writer on your computer? Well you needn't get the "cut-down" version of Nero, it's painfully cheap on it's own if you get it off Ebuyer...

just a thought...

windog · Post by **windog** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:12 pm

what is the diffrence in the vcd and the svcd thingies.

fi11m-m4k3r · Post by **fi11m-m4k3r** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:59 am

Vcd is MPEG-1 on a CD-R
SVCD is MPEG-2 on a CD-R

windog · Post by **windog** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:18 am

which should i use?

fi11m-m4k3r · Post by **fi11m-m4k3r** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:57 am

Depends if you want quality or quantity!
Quality but shorter - SVCD
Quantity but longer - VCD

SVCD stands for "Super VideoCD". A SVCD is very similiar to a VCD, it has the capacity to hold about 35-60 minutes on 74/80 min CDs of very good quality full-motion video along with up to 2 stereo audio tracks and also 4 selectable subtitles. A SVCD can be played on many standalone DVD Players and of course on all computers with a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive with the help of a software based decoder / player. It is also possible to use menus and chapters, similiar to DVDs, on a SVCD and also simple photo album/slide shows with background audio. The quality of a SVCD is much better than a VCD, especially much more sharpen picture than a VCD because of the higher resolution. But the quality depends how many minutes you choose to store on a CD, less minutes/CD generally means higher quality.