newbie with a question

eddie234 · Post by **eddie234** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:06 pm

I just got a K-world capture card that came with the ulead dvd software. Do I need to get a dvd burner? or will my cd burner work? also do I need to burn to dvd disk's or can I use regular cd-RW's.
thanks in advance,
Ed

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:12 pm

You can use the program to make video cds and svcds but you cannot make dvds with a CD burner.

If you want to make DVDs you will have to have a DVD burner to make them.

If you get a DVD burner you can make video cds and video dvds, the opposite is not true.

eddie234 · Post by **eddie234** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:35 pm

will video cds or svcds play in a dvd player? if not could I save it in that format and load it up onto a computer with editing software and a dvd burner and burn a dvd that way?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:55 pm

eddie234

Even though a CD and a DVD may look the same, a DVD will fact hold hold the equivalant amount of information contained on 6 CD disks.

You can therefore well imagine how much more advanced the completed DVD will be with better Menu's, moving thumbnails, navigational controls etc. the Video's contained on the DVD will be of superior quality and obviously you can have a video that will last a lot longer.

I have transferred all my old VHS tapes onto DVD and thrown the VHS tapes away. the only VHS player in our house is one connected to my computer simply so that I can transfer VHS for friends/relatives onto DVD.

A CD disc can hold about a hour of video but in much lower quality.

There is very little difference now in the cost of blank CD's and Blank DVD's. A 16x DVD writer can now be purchased fairly cheaply.

I would strongly suggest you upgrade to a DVD writer. the DVD writer will also perfom all the functions of a CD writer. You can also use DVD discs in the same way as CD discs and store back up's of your programs, photographs, Word files, Excel spreadsheets etc etc.

Steve J

bop · Post by **bop** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:12 pm

To answer the Question most newer dvd players will play vcd/svcd's my 4y/o pioneer wont.
You could create your dvd upto the burning stage ie: instead of burn the dvd you could creat the required dvd .iso image or video_ts folder and transfer that to another comp with a dvd burner to just burn.
However i would sugest do as the others have said buy a dvd burner yourself as the problem of transfering upto 4GB of data may be a prob

Brian

eddie234 · Post by **eddie234** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:01 pm

Thanks for all the info. I'll start shopping for on today.