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seebol

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Jul 7, 2004
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If I have a DVD, how do I make it into a vcd?

First, i guess, I need to know how to rip the DVD onto my harddrive. Then, I gotta convert it into whatever format vcd or svcd is. What softwares do you recommend for this?

THanks,
Sibo
 
cool

So handbrake is ripping right now...quite a lengty process. If I had slightly cropped or rescaled the video size, would I have seen any significant boost in speed?

Also, is there any way to compress more than 60 mins onto a cd?

I've also heard about a divx/xivx format. This won't work in dvd players I guess? How many minutes fit in one cd?

Thanks again
 
seebol said:
So handbrake is ripping right now...quite a lengty process. If I had slightly cropped or rescaled the video size, would I have seen any significant boost in speed?

Also, is there any way to compress more than 60 mins onto a cd?

I've also heard about a divx/xivx format. This won't work in dvd players I guess? How many minutes fit in one cd?

Thanks again

Encoding movies into VCD takes a very long time, period. You can compress an entire movie to fit onto a VCD but the quality will be very bad. The whole Divx thing opens up a new can of worms. First you have to mess with syncing the audio, then divx files only work on a computer, blah blah. A problem you may not have foreseen is that you can only play the VCD on a Mac if you use VLC. I have many VCDs and let me tell you that VLC is nice but it doesnt work all the time. So the moral is VCDs and Divx take a long time to create and take a lot of work to watch on the computer.
 
wat if the file is a bin or cue or something quicktime , isnt there a way to make them into a vcd to play in the dvd player
 
seebol said:
So handbrake is ripping right now...quite a lengty process. If I had slightly cropped or rescaled the video size, would I have seen any significant boost in speed?

Also, is there any way to compress more than 60 mins onto a cd?

I've also heard about a divx/xivx format. This won't work in dvd players I guess? How many minutes fit in one cd?

Thanks again

you can buy DivX/ Xvid DVD players... they are amazing, and pretty cheap. They can play all kinds of burned media as well.
 
I've also heard about a divx/xivx format. This won't work in dvd players I guess?

Toast can also convert divx/xvid to DVD or VCD/S-VCD as long as you have the correct codecs for them to work with QuickTime.

The tools I use are DVD2oneX, ffmpegX, Forty-TwoDVD-VXPlus, Handbrake, Toast, MacTheRipper, these can pretty much handle any video format I chuck at my G5.
 
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