800Mb CD? How am I meant to burn that

[The Daishi]

Hi,

I've just finished a DVD2SVCD process for the first time.

I have the 2 .cue files.

And I feel like I'm losing my mind because, well, CD's take 700 and a couple of Mb, yes? Oh sure, you can overburn to like, 725, but this is not 800Mb!!

I'm burning coasters here...

I'm burning this all on a LiteOn internal IDE 52X CDR/RW drive...

I've tried 8X and 16X, both of which made coasters.

Admitadly I have un-branded CDR80s. Am I meant to be using CDR90s?

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

I await your flames :sly:

Ta,

Jim.

[Clixo]

Q61: What is the best/safest way to burn a SVCD?
A: For those of you that have this down pat please disregard. This post is targeted at the zillion people that seem to have constant problems burning an SVCD disk. It is designed to provide a foolproof way to burn a SVCD to a disk that even the newest person can understand.

OK, all of you have a disk copy program, right?. By that I am referring to any of the simple disk to disk programs available like Nero, cdrwin, clonecd, etc. They are tried and true when it comes to copying one disk to another, however, sometimes they, or the user, might have problems when attempting the direct burn of a cue/bin to disk. So we will use the straight disk copy portion of one of these programs, along with Daemon tools to do a straight copy of the disk.

Get this and install it:
http://www.daemon-tools.com/daemon_tools.htm

This basic tool, along with WinDvd or PowerDVD, is a MUST have for ANYBODY that does SVCDs.

Daemon Tools creates a "virtual" cdrom on your PC. This new drive is available to Windows just as if it were a physical disk drive.

It, and windvd or powerdvd, should always be used to preview your disk image before you attempt to burn a disk.

In a nutshell, right click on the icon Daemon tools installs in your tray. Select Virtual CD/DVD-ROM > Device > mount image and choose your CUE file from the file selector (see notes below if you have any problem doing this). At this stage it is as if you had inserted a properly burned SVCD in a physical drive. You can use WinDvd or, most of the time, the latest PowerDVD (old ones won't work), to preview the disk.

Now just run Nero, or whatever, and select a standard disk copy with the virtual drive as your source and the burner as your destination. Burn the damn disk. You should be able to use "on the fly" with no problems as the read speed from the virual drive is mega fast.

If this does not work you have other problems you need to deal with like your aspi layer.

Notes:





Mounting a disk in Daemon tools is normally foolproof unless you have a an incorrect path header in your cue file. If so, open the cue file in notepad and fix it. For Cue/bins created with later versions of DVD2SVCD this should never be a problem, even if you have moved the cue/bins to another directory. If you have changed the name of the cue/bin you will have to change the header in the cue file to the new name. Don't worry, it is easy and it is obvious where to change it.


You will need to select "unmount all drives" before you attempt to delete the cue/bin after a successful burn (or mount something else)as the bin/cue will be locked from deletion.


Although not free as is Daemon Tools, Fantom CD might be of interest to you also. I believe it has a copy program built in?
http://fantomcd.copystar.com.tw/enu/


So, you have .cif files to burn? See Mozarts Q&A #50: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...91355#post91355

[The Daishi]

:(

Yes I know, I have read the FAQs, I have read the bug tracker in case this is something else...

And everybody is acting like this is normal.

I will try that forthwith if you reckon that is the problem. A problem with that FAQ is there is no "Please don't worry about the 800Mb thing"

So can somebody please explain this yet-to-be-seen magic 800Mb into 700-725Mb trick?

Sorry,

Jim.

Additional: Is burning at 4X still necassary with this daemon tools thingy? Ta.

[Clixo]

thanks mark

[markrb]

Clixo OK.

When you burn a SVCD you are not burning it as data you are burning it as MODE 2 which has no error correction and this saves space so you are able to burn 10X's the amount of minutes in megabytes or possbily more.

You must burn it as MODE 2. You can do this by burning the CUE/BIN files as images or use Nero's or other programs SVCD/VCD templates.

If you just try to burn the mpg video as data you will be limited to the megabytes listed because the burning program adds error correction to the data.

4X is not always needed, but it's listed that way as a safe bet. You can burn as fast as you want, but before you erase the files watch the discs. If you get green blocks, skips or other issues that are not on the original files you will want to slow your burn down. Because there is no error correction you need to burn better.

Please also only use one special character in your title. Rule 9 of the forum rules forbids using special characters to draw attention to your post. Your post has been edited.

Mark