On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > Whose using what for burning VCD's? my dvd player plays > cdrw vcd's and it's quite cool being able to turn bits > of my music video collection (.mpg / .avi) into vcd's, > Nero (windows) had a nice vcd mode where you could dump > files on it and it's do all the vcd creating for you, > the files are already mostly in the right format, just > need something to compile them onto a cd.
Why vcdimager (http://www.vcdimager.org) of course. Supports making the fancy multi level menus and other cool stuff like that that VCD2.0 supports (uses XML to describe them), or just plain old VCD1.1's. Also does SVCD's. It creates a .bin and a .cue that can be given to cdrdao to actually write the CD. Apparently there are some GUI front ends for it, including ones that support menus, but I usually just use it straight for the command line and write the XML manually. For creating the .mpg's I've found mpeg2enc from the mjpegtools to create the most compliant streams. Even my cheap little NAPA player plays those files great, unlike other so called VCD files off the net. Non-VCD mpegs -> VCD mpegs is simple with the modified mpeg2dec, just pipe it's output into mpeg2enc, via yuvscaler if the file needs to be resized. For .avi (and other's, including .ogm it seems) use transcode. Ripmake is quite good for that, just "ripmake <input file> vcd", then "make -f <input file>.mak rip" and it'll go right through all the steps right down to making the .bin and .cue files (including splitting over multiple CD's if needed). Andrew Gordon -- http://hhs.gordons.gen.nz/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Outside temperature is approx. 4.6 degrees C Uptime: 85:01:49 (Days:Hours:Minutes) 2.98, 2.94, 2.93 Loadavg 168 Tasks loaded, 3 in Running State
