Divx to VCD without the hours of conversion

[sonic_front]

Hello,

I probably have a stupid question. Okay, I was at Frye's Electronics yesterday and this guy told me that he was able to watch divx on his home dvd player. He told me that he used vcdgear to convert the avi to mpeg and Nero to create the vcd.
Is this guy totally full of it? He told me the whole process took about twenty minutes. I've made quite a few VCDs from both DVDs and AVI and have never heard of such a thing. Oh, the supposed reason why such an easy conversion works is, because Divx is Mpeg4 and VCD in Mpeg-1----so it's really about the same thing.

I hope I gave enough info. Please let me know if there is any additional info needed.

Thanks for the help!

[bb]

Sounds like BS to me.

bb

[Acaila]

I just checked the homepage, and it is indeed a program to convert video files. However it doesn't mention anything about avi being a possible source. It mostly seems to do MPEG->VCD though.

[grug2k]

Bullshit. :)

VCDGear pretty only converts MPEG-1 streams. MPG to DAT and vice versa. As these are both the same format, it doesn't take long.

If you're converting between two different formats, ie, MPEG-4 and MPEG-1, then of course you're going to have to decode it and then re-encode it.

[midiguy]

vcdgear DOES NOT convert, it extracts. .DAT is MPEG-1 with a bunch of extra shit useless junk information. jsut a bunch of nonesense headers and footers that just tkae up extra space. so all vcdgear does is extract the MPEG-1 video from the DAT file. but no conversion is done.

[grug2k]

Thats what I meant by "these are both the same format". DAT and MPG are both MPEG-1, but the DAT contains additional error correction. The video stream remains unchanged.

[sonic_front]

That's what I thought.

Thanks for the help!

[Faceman101]

I love when I goto computer/retail stores and hear the clerks talk like they know what they are doing.