Avi To PLay in a VCD DVD PLayer

[SPOiLEDLiTTLEBR]

Hi,
I'm really new to this so i was wondering if i could get some help.
I have an avi and i want to know how to burn it to a play in a vcd dvd player? Do i need to conver it? And if so with what program?
PLease help
you can also e-mail me yournamehere7@cogeco.ca

Thanks
Agata

[setarip]

To create a VCD:

1) Load .AVI file into TMPGEnc
2) Set to "System Video and Audio" (lower right side)
3) Click on "Setting" radio button
4) Click on "System" tab, change mode to "MPEG1-VideoCD" (from default of "MPEG1")
5) Click on "Advanced" tab, change "Video arrange method" to "Center (Custom Size"), change dimensions to 352x288 or 352x240
6) Change "Source aspect ratio" to either "4:3 525 line (NTSC 704x480)", "4:3 525 line (NTSC)", or "16:9 525 line (NTSC)" - If you're in the PAL world choose either of the two similar PAL settings instead
7) Under the "Video" tab, change the dimensions to 352x288 or 352x240 (Note: "Video" tab mode of "MPEG1" is okay) - set "Motion Search Precision" to "Normal Quality". Change the "Aspect Ratio" to match, as closely as possible, the "Source Aspect Ratio" you set under the "Advanced" tab.
8) Change "Rate Control Mode" to "Automatic VBR (CQ_VBR)" and "Bitrate" to "1,150"
9) Under the "Audio" tab, set to "MPEG-1 Layer II", 44,100 224Kbps
10) Press "Start"

(Or, instead of the steps 1)-10) above, you could attempt to use TMPGEnc's VCD "wizard"/template)

Note that if your video runs longer than 70-80 minutes, you'll have to subsequently split your VCD-MPG file in two. This too can be easily and precisely accomplished using TMPGEnc. Under the "Files" dropdown menu, click on "MPEG Tools" and select the "Merge & Cut" tab. Once again, make sure to change the mode to "MPEG1-Video CD". Load your file and enter a new (.MPG) name in the "Output file" box. Then doubleclick on the ORIGINAL file's name in the window, which will bring you to the cutting area. Select your desired start and end points for the first half, click on "Okay" which will bring you back to the first window and generate (in a sequence of three automated steps) the first new file. To create the second new file, repeat the steps starting with "Then doubleclick on the ORIGINAL..." (be extra patient with the second half, as the program has to do more seeking to establish the beginning of the new file).

Use a burning program, such as NERO to burn your CD-R or R/W CD as a VCD (DON'T ask NERO to format the file as a VCD, since you've already accomplished this!)

Let us know of your success ;>}

[tapioca]

hey.. i have like a few gigs of mpeg video.. and i was wondering if i could burn all of those on a dvd disk as a vcd or something? but i only have a regular cdr burner.. so would it work?

[ZEEXGOD]

You will need to get a DVD burner to burn onto DVD's m8.

[mona]

Setarip, I have followed your instructions on encoding to vcd using TMPGEnc Plus, and I coudn't burn it on nero 6 ultra lite. I went to nero express and uploaded the file, then it sd it was burned successful, yet I never saw the light on the cd-rw burner go red as it usually does when I burn, and the cd-rw was empty. Can you pls provide me with more instructions on how to use nero 6 ultra lite to burn my mpeg vcd file??
thanx I appreciate it.

[agma11]

Hello setarip
I followed the detailed instructions you posted and I found the following problems:

1) when I use the tpmgenc to convert my avi (13 giga) to mpeg (1,4 giga), the lenght of the video changes from 60 minutes to 2 hrs 20 min. Appearently, the video after 60 min is garbage, but I am not sure. So what I did was to continue using your instructions to split the file in 2, but the file size did not change (still 1.4 giga).

2) Even with this problem, I tried to use Nero to burn the CD and it tells me that the encoding is required, which brings me another problem, it seems that Nero is not recognizing the conversion made by tpmgenc.

If you have some free time, I would appreciate if you could provide some other instructions to solve my problems.

Thank you
Regards from MEX