2 - 4 VCD's to DVD?

[The Ironduke]

What is the best way?

and what apps do I need

[Arky]

Just a word of warning - I did this recently with the Back to The Future Trilogy (project was authored in Maestro as a DVD project), and, having written it to a 3rd generation DVD-R, my friend's Playstation2 played it back WITHOUT correct scaling, so it was blocky as hell - apparently the player was too stupid to realise that the MPEG1 data needed smooth scaling. I think this was probably a peculiarity of the Playstation2, which is a pain in the backside for playing DVD-Rs at the best of times, but I just thought I'd mention it.


Arky ;o)

[The Ironduke]

Originally posted by Arky
Just a word of warning - I did this recently with the Back to The Future Trilogy (project was authored in Maestro as a DVD project), and, having written it to a 3rd generation DVD-R, my friend's Playstation2 played it back WITHOUT correct scaling, so it was blocky as hell - apparently the player was too stupid to realise that the MPEG1 data needed smooth scaling. I think this was probably a peculiarity of the Playstation2, which is a pain in the backside for playing DVD-Rs at the best of times, but I just thought I'd mention it.


Arky ;o)

I tried with Maestro, managing to put 4 movies on a DVDR but there where 2 problems when playing back on my Hitachi 505 player.

1. one of the movies was out of sync, even though I added all sound tracks at 00.00.

2. the same movie had a weird problem, the bottom third of the screen showed a slight flickering tear.

The DVD authoring industry seems to be a mixed kettle at the moment.

at one end you have DVDit, Ulead DVD Factory that are all visual but dont allow many features, and at the other end you have DVD Meastro and Scenarist which are very detailed but lack the visual.

does Roxio Video Pack do CIFMpeg1 DVD?
or Roxio VideoWave?

Also I have heard that sonic Producer is quite good.

[auenf]

Originally posted by The Ironduke
at one end you have DVDit, Ulead DVD Factory that are all visual but dont allow many features, and at the other end you have DVD Meastro and Scenarist which are very detailed but lack the visual.

a program doesnt have to look good, it just has to work properly and have (some) ease of use.

Enf...

[The Ironduke]

Originally posted by auenf


a program doesnt have to look good, it just has to work properly and have (some) ease of use.

Enf...

didnt say it had to look good I am talking about ease of use such as say visual Basic vrs Assembler.

mkay!

[domosan]

I've used MyDVD to put VCDs successfully onto DVD-R discs, I ripped the movie with smartripper, encoded it with TMPGEnc and then simply pulled them into MyDVD. It automatically transcoded the files and I was able to play them back without any difficulty.