They call it DVCD. How do I rip it?

[Shook]

I have a movie that is about 1hr 10mins long and they call it DVCD. The movie file on the CD is ~900mb. I have to use a DVD program to watch it on the computer. I would like to rip this and convert it to a VCD/SVCD but the programs i've tried using such as DVDcrypter says "it is not dvd"

I would like to rip this to MPEG and put it on a VCD but can't figure out a way to do this since this kind of format I've never seen before. Any help is much appreciated.

btw, the files on the CD looks like a VCD outline, it includes these;
CDI
MPEGAV -->> AVSEQ01.DAT ~900mb file
SEGMENT
VCD

[Doobie]

It already is a VCD.

[Shook]

I want to rip it and encode it / change it so it can fit on a TWO regular CD's (700mb) instead. That is my question

[Doobie]

It already is on a regular CD.

[Doobie]

Isn't the quality already lousy enough without ripping and (re)encoding it? If you can't overburn a copy of it then split a copy of the dat file (rename *.mpg) file with tmpg (don't encode) and burn with Nero as a VCD.

[jggimi]

I think what Doobie was trying to say is that your disc is in a format called VideoCD, or VCD. The .DAT file contains an MPEG-1 video stream and MP2 audio stream at fixed bitrates, and includes error detection and correction, which is why the file size is larger than you would expect a standard data disc to have. Data discs have error detection and correction in "overhead."

Because VideoCDs have fixed bitrates -- and relatively low ones -- you can fit 74 minutes of audio and video on a 74 minute CD, 80 minutes on an 80 minute CD, etc.

To duplicate the disc, use burning software that can create an "image" file of the disc's contents, rather than individual files. Burning tools such as Nero, CDRWin, and Blindwrite can do this. This assumes that you have a burner capable of burning media with sufficient capacity to copy to.

There is some good information available at www.vcdhelp.com also -- good luck!

[Edit: Doobie jumped in with advice for splitting the audio and video streams if you can't obtain media large enough -- for example, if you have 90 minutes of content ... a 90 minute CD-R would be needed.]

[sync]

You can extract the mpg with isobuster. Instead of re-encoding you could just split the file using the mpeg tools in TMPGEnc.