Advice on 90Mins VCD

[zerohash]

Dear Friends,

I have seen that the new VCD's are of 90mins.I would like to know wether is it a sucess or a gimick.Does this VCD's play on all players?

Kindly guide me in this matter.I would like to know the name of the S/W and the Writers which helps in making 90mins VCD.I also want the advice about S/W wich are available free for download.I want to make interactive VCD's.All are Movies with menus.

Right now i am using Videopack 4 for making Interactive VCD's.We started with 72mins and currently doing 78mins.

Please takeout some time for me and advice.

Thanking You.

Zerohash

[smiller667]

A lot of dvd players these days will play back 90 min. movies. Some will refuse to play them, some might only play til 80 mins. I haven't bought a new player recently, so I don't know how the situation is atm. No idea how vcd standalones will behave, either (I have a vcd discman which likes them just fine, but that doesn't mean anything).

Regarding burners, the best source of information is http://www.feurio.com/English/index.shtml - click cd-writer database and then "search". You will be able to specify the overburning capacity of the burner.

As for software - nothing special should be required. If you use Nero, you will have to activate overburning in the expert settings (plus DAO). I haven't used VP, and I don't know if it has limitations regarding disc size. For freeware authoring tools, try VCDEasy (get the version from doom9) or TSCV.

To come back to your original statement that "all new vcds are 90 min" - what sort of titles are you referring to? Most legally available titles would appear to be 74 min. discs. The only pressed "CVCDs" (how these 90/99min titles are sometimes called) I heard of were of illegitimate origin.

[telemike]

You can fit up to 2 hours of MPEG-1 video on a VCD using Variable BitRate instead of 1150K constant bitrate. WWW.KVCD.NET are MPEG-1 VBR experts.

[Bubba]

zerohash,

90min, 90+ min, or 99min are not gimmick. If your standalone can play a VCD or SVCD, it will play VCD or SVCD on the 90-min CDs. I have used these CDs for years, when I don't want to split a VCD into 2 CDs, or when I want to create a better divX (90-min CDR will hold 780MB and 99-min will hold 870MB). During these time, I found 90-min CD are my favorite, because with "overburning" I can stretch a 90-min to a 92-min CD.

Since moving toward DVDs, I don't purchase these 90-min or 99-min any more, just because the price-to-megabyte ratio. The popular 80-min/700MB CDR and the 4.37GB DVD-R, basically has the same price ratio. A DVD can roughly hold 7x times more data than a CDR, and with a price about $0.80 to $1.20, it is about the same with the CDR. As you know, the 80-min CDR with incentive like rebate, can get as low as $0.05 to $0.07 per CD.

In the other hand, 90-min and 99-min price structure (I was never aware of any rebate for these) are too expensive comparing to the 80-min CDR and the DVD-R.

Cheers,

P.S. Nowadays, I still do VCDs using 80-min CDR, and with "overburning", I can go to 81:00 or 82:00. IMHO, TDK 80-min CDs are the most consistent in overburning. They can give you 81:55 easily. Most of my time now is concentrating on DVDs.