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Anyone had any luck burning their own VCD's ? Any tips ? I have Nero and I want to try tonight to make some. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002Yes, it works fine. But you must be sure to use it on a DVD player with VCD support or on yor PC. I see dumb people
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Yes, it works fine. But you must be sure to use it on a DVD player with VCD support or on yor PC. I see dumb people
Daniel Turini wrote: But you must be sure to use it on a DVD player with VCD support or on yor PC. Hmmm, I've burned VCD's using Nero before they seem to work fine in my VCD Player RE: tips for burning....Get a good CD-R. Nothing's worse than burning something and finding out the data's corrupted. Notorious SMC
The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
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Daniel Turini wrote: But you must be sure to use it on a DVD player with VCD support or on yor PC. Hmmm, I've burned VCD's using Nero before they seem to work fine in my VCD Player RE: tips for burning....Get a good CD-R. Nothing's worse than burning something and finding out the data's corrupted. Notorious SMC
The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark TwainI said DVD player with VCD support because in some countries, like Brazil, is almost impossible to find a real VCD player to buy. I see dumb people
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Anyone had any luck burning their own VCD's ? Any tips ? I have Nero and I want to try tonight to make some. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002One thing I found is that Sony DVD players that support VCD won't play home burnt CDRs, but play CDRWs quite happily (worth knowing before you create lots of coasters, and easy to test too - just stick in an audio CDR and an audio CDRW first, and see which work) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Anyone had any luck burning their own VCD's ? Any tips ? I have Nero and I want to try tonight to make some. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002I've had good luck using both Nero and Easy CD Creator 5. For some reason, Nero will default to a 5 second pause after each video, which is weird. You just need to remember to select all the tracks, bring up the properties, and change it to 0 or 1. I personally use TMPGENC to convert the videos to the VCD format. Instead, if you let Nero convert it, and the burn fails, the next time you try burning, Nero will have to do the conversion again. www.vcdhelp.com[^] contains a wealth of information.
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I've had good luck using both Nero and Easy CD Creator 5. For some reason, Nero will default to a 5 second pause after each video, which is weird. You just need to remember to select all the tracks, bring up the properties, and change it to 0 or 1. I personally use TMPGENC to convert the videos to the VCD format. Instead, if you let Nero convert it, and the burn fails, the next time you try burning, Nero will have to do the conversion again. www.vcdhelp.com[^] contains a wealth of information.
Thanks so much. One more question. I made two VCD's last night, both ran fine on my DVD player, but both had a lot of big blocky artefacts during playback that were not in the original video. Is that normal ? Nero reencoded a lot of them and I wonder if it does a bad job ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002 -
Thanks so much. One more question. I made two VCD's last night, both ran fine on my DVD player, but both had a lot of big blocky artefacts during playback that were not in the original video. Is that normal ? Nero reencoded a lot of them and I wonder if it does a bad job ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002When you watch it on TV, the quality is not going to be anywhere near DVD quality. VCD's on my TV (which is an HDTV) look awful compared to DVDs. But on a friends 7" in-car DVD player (don't ask why, yes it is illegal) look fine. You can try playing it back on your PC to see if the encoding by Nero created the blocks. Just pop in the VCD, browse the directories on it and look for some large files. Drag and drop them into Windows Media Player and they should play. NOTE: the file extension that VCD uses is not associated with WMP.
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When you watch it on TV, the quality is not going to be anywhere near DVD quality. VCD's on my TV (which is an HDTV) look awful compared to DVDs. But on a friends 7" in-car DVD player (don't ask why, yes it is illegal) look fine. You can try playing it back on your PC to see if the encoding by Nero created the blocks. Just pop in the VCD, browse the directories on it and look for some large files. Drag and drop them into Windows Media Player and they should play. NOTE: the file extension that VCD uses is not associated with WMP.
Thanks. I just played some on my PC with PowerDVD and they are fine. I know the quality won't be as good as DVD, but on my DVD player there are simply huge artefacts. They would be visible on a 7" screen for sure, we are talking about a few frames where 1/2 of the screen is blocky. I'm going to a shop at lunchtime with the VCD to get it played on a few other players to see if any play it as well as my PC does. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002 -
I said DVD player with VCD support because in some countries, like Brazil, is almost impossible to find a real VCD player to buy. I see dumb people
Daniel Turini wrote: some countries, like Brazil, is almost impossible to find a real VCD player to buy. :confused: It is easier to buy a DVD Player than to get a VCD player??? I never knew that!! Notorious SMC
The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain -
Daniel Turini wrote: some countries, like Brazil, is almost impossible to find a real VCD player to buy. :confused: It is easier to buy a DVD Player than to get a VCD player??? I never knew that!! Notorious SMC
The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark TwainNotorious SMC wrote: It is easier to buy a DVD Player than to get a VCD player??? I never knew that!! Yes, here you can buy a DVD player in almost every supermarket or eletronics store. But a VCD player must be directly imported, and I never saw one on a store. Most people here don't even know what is VCD. So, in practical terms, if you want a VCD player here, you use a DVD player wich supports VCD. I see dumb people