New member need experts' help, please.

[hzhao]

I am new to this board and has been reading and learned a lot from varies posts here. I have lots of VCDs, Is there any tools and utilities avaliable will extract the VCDs and re-encode it to DVD. I was hoping that I can combine 2 to 3 VCDs onto one DVD. I am not very experienced in this area, looking for something that is relatively striaght forward to use.

Thanks in advance for all the help and advices!

Howard

[r6d2]

Try using this (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/svcd2dvdr.htm) guide.

[hzhao]

Thanks so very much, r6d2. I will give a try.

[sarahjh69]

download dvd author from www.pegasys-inc.com

use the "add file" button and add the AVSEQ01.DAT file
straight from the VCD into it.
(I load my VCDs as images in Alcohol, so I can do a load at a time)

you can fit 6-8 of these on 1 dvd

[r6d2]

Originally posted by sarahjh69
download dvd author from www.pegasys-inc.com

use the "add file" button and add the AVSEQ01.DAT file
straight from the VCD into it.Interesting. Which version of DVD Author are you using? Mine complains all the time about non standard stuff and I'm forced to use DVD Patcher. Well, I'm converting SVCDs anyway. Maybe with VCDs is more straightforward? :confused:

[Nick]

MPEG1 @ VCD resoulution is standard-compliant for DVD Video.

It is only with SVCD resolution, or VCD/CVD framesize with anamorphic flag set that TMPGDA chokes.

Why it can't let you override these things with a simple warning box to OK (like DVDLab) I don't know.

That's life I guess :)

[jsoto]

In fact, VCD resolutions used in DVD should be MPEG-1 instead of MPEG-2:

http://dvd.sourceforge.net/dvdinfo/dvdmpeg.html

Anyway, I've been using MPEG-2 VCD resolutions (seems out of the standard) without any problem

As a curiosity (it really surprised me) there are bitrate restrictions in DVD MPEG-1.

MPeg-1 maximum video 1856Kbps, maximum audio 384Kbps

jsoto

[r6d2]

The good thing about this forum is you never stop learning! :)