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| The VCD uses a specific format of video. Technically it is called MPEG-1 but it is a specific format within that format...bottom line is you can have an MPEG-1 file that cannot be made into a VCD. So I had to convert ALL my mpeg videos into AVIs. An AVI is a Microsoft video format. Why? because I couldn't directly convert from one MPEG style to a different one... I had to go throught the AVI format. That is where the FlaskMPEG program comes in. Most people use it for converting their DVDs but it works great for converting AVIs to MPEGs. That process on a long (5-10 minute or so) video takes about 1 hour on my computer. (and you can get a gigantic file) Next I convert that file into the VCD format...that is the AVI2VCD program's job. That process takes about 1.5 hours. The test is to open that file with the Adaptec Video CD creator. If it will open and play it, then you are good to go. |
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| Download the two main programs, and you probably also need the current Divx Codec at the same site. If you don't know what it is, you probably don't want to know what it is. To make things easy, gather all the files you want to convert in one area, but leave enough room on the drive (like I said...gigs worth of room) to allow for the converted files. You will have at least three files with the same stuff on them if all goes well. The origninal MPEG, the converted AVI, and the reconverted MPEG (VCD format). Notice that if you are starting out with AVI files...then you only have a one step conversion...to vcd format. I only had one file that the simple 2 step process wouldn't work. That file had an error in the very beginning, so I used VIR2.exe and (like using Sound Recorder) cut out the first half second of video from the bad AVI file, and then it worked fine. |