How To Burn Lots Of Vcd Format Films Onto 1 Dvd

[a_mitch_a]

hi,
im a bit of an amatuer when i comes to backing up my dvd's (i just use dvd shrink and nero). recently i have been experimenting with converting dvd films into divx and vcd formats.

now that i have lots of films in mpg and div formats, does anybody know how i can make a dvd with all of them on? obviously this would be so that they could be played in a standard dvd player.

As stated earlier, im using nero buring rom.-this is version 6.

Any help or links to sites with any information would be much appreciated... cheers guys!

[mudda_t]

Link (http://forum.doom9.org/search.php)

[killingspree]

hi and welcome to the forum,
unfortunately the task you want to master is not the easiest one! Anyway, i don't want to scare you away, but just warn you, what is ahead of you!
Generally i would recommend to redo the rips from the original DVDs instead of using already heavily compressed files as vcds or divx avis. A significant quality loss will be inevitable!

What you will have to do (roughly) is:

convert all your assets to mpeg2 using a program like Tmpgenc or CCE
convert the audio of your divx file to a format usable for a DVD. you'll have several choices, but in your case mpa should be the easiest format to convert to! of course you can also encode them to 2.0 ac3s or even PCM audio - if you prefer a lossless conversation!
reauthor your assets in a dvd authoring app like dvdlab, tmpeg dvd author, or for more ambitious (also expensive) projects: maestro or scenarist NT!
afterwards you can burn the resulting files (bunch of ifos, bups and vobs) to DVD

doom9 has got a list of really comprehensive guides that will provide you with a more detailed description of the tasks ahead!
http://www.doom9.org/conversionguides.htm

if you have SVCDs to, you can burn those to dvdr without reencoding by following this guide:
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/svcd2dvdr.htm

hth
steVe

[a_mitch_a]

cheers for the help dude, its VERY much appreciated. -although it doesnt sound that easy i will try my best!

[echooff]

Provided they are all the correct format (by this I mean ntsc or pal) you could just load them into TmpgDvdAuthor and author a dvd. The program accepts mpeg1 input and will re-encode the audio on the fly.