Can I convert DVD to VCD?

[danipartida]

Hello,

I was wondering how to convert DVD files into VCD format so I can record the movie on a regular CD-R and be able to play it on a DVD player.

Also, can SmartRipper rip on to a DVD-R disc using a CD-RW drive, If not is there a program that does?

One more thing, BestBuy offers DVD-R discs for about $12 bucks each(ouch!), can you tell me where to get them cheaper, on the internet or any other place.

Thank you very much.

[Trancemaster]

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[vid1972]

Danipartida, I wrote this in another forum, but it applies here too....

I have a couple of questions for you too. My dvd player will not play cd-rs, I wonder if yours will either. Also, are the dvd-r/dvd-rws compatible with most stand alone dvd players, or must the player specify that they will play dvd-r/dvd-rw? Just wondering.



1) I use smartripper version 2.39. I only rip the main movie, including the ifo/bup files.

2) I then use xmpeg version 4.2a(www.mp3guest.com) with the divx 4.11 codec(http://www.divx.com/divx/index.php), and the radium mp3 codec(http://www.riphelp.com/downloads/radium_codec.html). Reason I use this and not something like DVD2AVI(which I've used and works great also), is that divx 4.11 codec as been optimized to use the SSE instructions in the Pentium 3/4. The athlon XP can take advantage of this also. Check this article out for benchmark comparisons(http://www.tomshardware.com/video/0...1207/index.html). Depending on your processor's clock/bus speeds, and whether you use rambus/ddr ram versus sdram(133mhz), it can take from 2-6 hours to encode(a 2-hour movie). I'm on the 6-hour side with my slow PIII. Tomshardware, has a good guide to setting up xmpeg 4.2a.

3) After words I use VirtualDub version 1.4.7(http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/d...virtualdub.html) to perfectly sync my audio and video.

4) I then use TMPGEnc version 2.01.30.116 to encode from avi to mpeg. But, I don't split the avi first. After the conversion, I'll split the mpeg in half. A 2-hour movie will take about 4-hours to convert.

5) Finally I'll burn to cd-rw using the video-cd feature in Nero burning rom version 5.5.5.4. This will take about 15-minutes per cd. I have also burned to cd-r successfully and played it on my pc with windows media player and Windvd. But as I said my stand alone doesn't play cd-rs.

Using the steps above I've encoded very good quality vcd's, you could also opt for the svcd version in TMPGEnc. But then your dvd player would have to be able to recognize that too. Which mine doesn't. Here is a good, comprehensive website for encoding that I've used(http://www.dvdripguides.com/dvdmenu.html). I hope that helps some, let me know how things go.