Hey,
sorry just got my dvd burner and I'm a little new to this stuff. However, is there any way that you can make a DVD VCD? what I mean is keep the movies in .mpeg format like you would on a VCD, but store it on a DVD and play it on a DVD player? I'm just wondering cause converting the DVD format takes up too much space then I would like. I can barely get an hour of video on a 4.7 gig DVD. Thanks
You can make a DVD that's 352x240 (that's NTSC; it's 352x288 for PAL) pixels, a.k.a. Quarter D1 resolution. But your source material still has to be reencoded to MPEG-2; VCD uses MPEG-1. On Nero (and many other programs) set the quality to "Extra Long Play".
The quality, in most cases, however, is terrible compared to DVD. However, the output won't be better than the input so if it's already VCD-like quality, it won't hurt to use EP mode.
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-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
