Burning VCD format on DVD, Is it possible? Options

[Rio]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if it is possible to burn mpeg .DAT files on DVDs, instead of CDs, and still be playable on DVD hardware capable of reading VCDs.

Nero will only burn such format restricted to CDs only (700MB).

I have lots of children's VCDs (Dora the Explorer, Hi-5, VeggieTales) for my kids, and was wondering if I could compile them on DVDs without transcoding and/or authoring to DVD format. It takes ages to do so, and increases the filesize (only 3 VCDs per DVD).

BTW, are there any good sites aside from HA, (like some sort of "HydrogenVideo"?)

Thanks in advance!

[xmixahlx]

yep. ...sorta...

1. rip the VCDs
2. keep the video (part of the DVD-Video standard is 352x240 MPEG1 )
3. re-encode the audio from 44100 (VCD) to 48000 (DVD)
4. author the DVD.


later

[Synthetic Soul]

2. keep the video (part of the DVD-Video standard is 352x240 MPEG1 )

This should be pretty easy to find, but as a pointer, IIRC, the file you are after is a DAT file. Rename it to MPG to play on your PC easily.

[chornobyl]

renaming to .MPG and burn data dvd should help, most dvd players can decode mpeg1 easily
(must warn you: menus will be lost)
additionally you can remux this file from vcd stream to ordinary mpeg1 stream, this also will make filesize smaller as vcd contain some extra padding info

BTW, are there any good sites aside from HA, (like some sort of "HydrogenVideo"?)

http://forum.doom9.org/

re-encode the audio from 44100 (VCD) to 48000 (DVD)

imho no need to do this as players undestand 44.1 as well as 48

ps: once i face similar problem, but the task was fit 820 mb vcd file on standart cdr
so i needed to reencode audio from 224kbps to lower bitrate and remux those in new mpeg1 stream

This post has been edited by chornobyl: Oct 31 2008, 23:30

[Rio]

Thank you for all your replies.

I followed xmixahlx's advice, using VCDCutter to split the MPG stream to M1V and MP3. However, VCDCutter would prematurely stop even before halfway the file.

The DAT file was ripped to MPG using VCDGear.

I upgraded my Nero 6 OEM suite to Ultra Reloaded, hoping to be able to encode 352x240 MPEG1 video files (Super Long Play) with AC3 audio using Nero Vision Express 3 (previously, it would only encode audio as LPCM before the upgrade, making the VOB files extremely large). This could have given me 360 minutes of video on a 4.7Gb DVD, instead of 3 hours only.

I would have settled with the 352x240 video + AC3 audio, but Nero would still transcode (and hence, will take hours, which I was avoiding).

I also tried chornobyl's suggestion, but my Sony DVD Receiver won't play MPEGs on DVD.

Will post developments. Thanks again!