small DVD to CD-R

[2ill4brasil]

I made a 3d animation at school which is 5 minutes long, and it was burned onto a DVD-R. The whole content of the DVD-R is only around 350 MB (all the vobs, ifos, etc), and I wanna make copies of the movie. Since each CD-R can easily fit those 350 MB, I wanted to know if it's possible to somehow put those files onto a CD-R and play them on my DVD player.
I tried just ripping all the contents of the DVD and burning all those files onto a CD-R (as an iso) but my DVD player won't take it.
I also tried using a DVD authoring software but it only lets me burn stuff onto DVDs.

Is what I'm trying to accomplish possible at all? And if it's not, why the hell isn't it, why would I have to waste a 5GB DVD-R with a 350 MB file? Someone please enlighten me.



And I could obviously settle for a compressed VCD or SVCD, but I don't wanna sacrifice quality when I don't have to.

[Dimmer]

DVD recorded onto CD-R is referred to as mini-DVD or cDVD. It's not a standard, so only some players would play it. You can check this site (http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDname=&minidvd=1&Search=Search&country=&orderby=Name&Submit2=Search) to find out, which players support it. Usually it's cheap no-name Apex-like models.

The reason for this, as I understand, is that most players' DVD drives are not fast enough to spin CD-R with the speed required to read DVD content from it. You probably know that 1x DVD speed = 9x CD speed. Of course, computer CD/DVD drives won't have a problem playing mini-DVD.

[2ill4brasil]

thanks, i figured it was called mini-DVD but I didn't know why it wasn't working on my DVD player. That site helps a lot

Thank you

[smiller667]

There are two problems with miniDVD playback on a standalone:

Lots of players will actually check the media type before attempting playback. If a CD(R) is detected, the DVD playback routines are disabled, i.e. the player simply doesn't look for DVD structures on the CD. In a similar way, even if dvd players support mp3 playback, many of them will not play mp3s from a dvd ...

Even if a player does support miniDVD (like e.g. some old Sampo players), playback may stutter due to a "slow" drive which can't read the CD at the speed required, as Dimmer already pointed out. In such cases, miniDVD playback can sometimes be "rescued" by replacing the drive with a faster model, if possible.

Steve.