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BrianCee
In UVS go to 'Share' choose "Create Dics' make sure you select 'VCD' in the top left drop down - otherwise exactly as making a DVD.
Are you sure you want to make a VCD - quality will not be good.
No guarentees especially with VCDs that they will play on all DVD players (I assume thats what you mean - don't think I've ever seen a VCD only player ) - some just will not play any VCD - check the players specifications.
Are you sure you want to make a VCD - quality will not be good.
No guarentees especially with VCDs that they will play on all DVD players (I assume thats what you mean - don't think I've ever seen a VCD only player ) - some just will not play any VCD - check the players specifications.
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... And just to get my two cents worth in, the general rule seems to be: the cheaper the DVD player, the more likely it is to play everything, including VCDs, MP3s, JPEG and Kodak discs. I have found from bitter personal experience that the higher end, more expensive brand name models are very fussy about what they will play; whereas the (much) cheaper, mass-produced Chinese models seem to have all the bells and whistles but will play just about anything you put into them.
But if your intention is to disseminate your VCDs among friends, it will be very much a hit and miss affair whether their players will accept the discs.
For what it's worth, the quality of a good VCD is only about as good as a good VHS tape. A good SVCD is of much higher quality, though of course you can only fit about a maximum of 40 minutes of SVCD on a CD. Best quality naturally comes from a DVD, though that of course depends on the quality of what is burned. As they say, rubbish in -- rubbish out!
But if your intention is to disseminate your VCDs among friends, it will be very much a hit and miss affair whether their players will accept the discs.
For what it's worth, the quality of a good VCD is only about as good as a good VHS tape. A good SVCD is of much higher quality, though of course you can only fit about a maximum of 40 minutes of SVCD on a CD. Best quality naturally comes from a DVD, though that of course depends on the quality of what is burned. As they say, rubbish in -- rubbish out!
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THoff
Another option would be to burn a DVD onto CD media -- this is known as a cDVD or sometimes MiniDVD (though the compact 8cm DVDs used by some camcorders are absorbing this name for themselves).
The first drawbacks of this is that you can fit only about 20 minutes or so of high-quality video onto a CD, but for edited video of family events and vacations, that is often enough.
The second drawback is that you have to keep the bitrate down to allow DVD players to play these disks. Because the data density of CD media is much lower than that of DVD media, the disk needs to spin much faster to be able to deliver the same amount of information to the pickup lens. Some players simply can't deal with this. As a rule of thumb, I would keep the DVD bitrate to about 4500 VBR, with a maximum of 6000, to avoid these issues. On the bright side, using a lower bitrate will once again allow you to put more video on that disk.
The first drawbacks of this is that you can fit only about 20 minutes or so of high-quality video onto a CD, but for edited video of family events and vacations, that is often enough.
The second drawback is that you have to keep the bitrate down to allow DVD players to play these disks. Because the data density of CD media is much lower than that of DVD media, the disk needs to spin much faster to be able to deliver the same amount of information to the pickup lens. Some players simply can't deal with this. As a rule of thumb, I would keep the DVD bitrate to about 4500 VBR, with a maximum of 6000, to avoid these issues. On the bright side, using a lower bitrate will once again allow you to put more video on that disk.