I tried to burn one of my mpg file into vcd. but when it was done and I tried to play it, the picture and the sound was like ZZtt-ZZtt-ZZtt. PLease, I need your answer. Thank you!

-- Douglas Kerttapati (kertapati27@yahoo.com), October 14, 2002

Answers

Read the guides at http://www.vcdhelp.com to make sure you're doing the right things. If you downloaded the MPG file from a peer to peer service like Kazaa or Morpheus, it may simply be that the original is corrupted and you did everything right, you just had trash to work with.

-- Root (root@yahoo.com), October 14, 2002.

how can i burn mpeg / data of 790mb in 700mb/80min cd . even with nero burning or roxio software can help me or not but in which way should i. looking forward to hearing from u soon.

thanks.

-- zibran a (zibran417@hotmail.com), October 02, 2004.

700MB CDRs can hold 1h 19m 45s of video.

VCDs has a fixed bit rate of 1150kbps (video) + 224kbps (audio) = 1374kbps.

Multiplying the two together, we get, 1374kbps x 1:19:45s = 1374kbps x 4785s = 802MB.

So 790MB shouldn't be a problem.

Yes, it's more than the stated 700MB capacity of the CDR. But remember, the 700MB is formatted capacity. VCDs are not formatted the same way as data CDs. Without the extra error correcting codes, and other overhead, the same CDR can store more VCD-format data.

Use TMPEG to create a VCD compliant file, then use VCD to create a cue/bin image, and lastly burn the cue/bin image file with Nero to a CDR.

PS: I last tested VCD encoding with Nero on version 5.5. It was awful. Took forever, the video quality was terrible, and the resulting VCD refuse to play on standalone VCD players.

-- Daniel Khoo (gsf_oohk@fzz.no-ip.info), October 04, 2004.