I purchaced a number of VCD's ( 22) from and old cartoon show on Ebay and woud like to rip and burn them on DVD's so there isnt so many disks about ...so the question is how do youy do it so they work on a stand alone DVD player''' what the process ??? have Clone DVD

Check out DVDLab, they have a tutorial on how to do it all at http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/svcd.html The Tute is about SVCD's but the same applies to VCD's.

I tried DVD-Lab, but it stops demuxing at 69% when i try to import a 42 min .mpg file from a VCD. Is there any way to force DVD-Lab to demux the whole file?

Try Demuxing it manaully first then load the individual files into DVDLab. Use TMPGEnc to demux the mpg (Files/MPEG Tools../Simple Demux).

is it really worth doing this? I want to this with some good movies i have in mpeg format..

Rob

the mediachance link is not working any other links

going to try this project just for fun. My friend just calls me and tells me he bought lords of the rings the ring master on dvd from some guy.

So i told him wow thats tight got the menus? He said no and the quality is crap and its subtitled in chinese

i guess i want to try this out just to see if i can.

going to DL dvdlabs and try this. It seems that the page is down.

morbius 57 do a search on google and you will be able to find the proggy for DL. You will need however the page to get back up for the steps.. unless someone could post them here for us.

Ill send you a pm on the link since i am not sure if we can post links on this forum.

Rob


they have it on this server so i guess they wont mind this..

http://www.cdfreaks.com/software/73

link is back up..


@ ChickenMan:
I am having the same prob getting Dvdlab to do the actual de-multiplex of the mpeg file. I noticed that DVdlab makes a .mpv file but when i do a simple de-mul with TMPEGnc it makes a m1v file that dvdlab wont pick up.

any ideas on that?

Rob

I did it with TMPGenc. I just used the wizard and it made a .m2v and a .wav file.
I transcoded the .wav with besweet and DVDLab took both.
It takes a lot of time if you do this with about 200 files, but it works.

Thanks ChickenMan

COOL i see what u mean.. When you use the wizzard at the end it asks me what percent do i want to use up on the disk? Sicne i was thinking of just putting one movie on a dvd should i just use 50% or go with 99.9% it gives by default?

Rob

If you just want to burn one movie on DVD I would use the default settings.

OK maybe i didnt express my self correctly. Since one movie is 2 SVCD/VCD/MPEG do i still go with the 99.99% on each disk or do i use say 50% for disk1/mpeg1 and 50% for disk2/mpeg2

thanks and sorry for the confussion..

to much maryjane/egg nog

I would say that depends on the size of the output file. I would just reduce it to a level that both files fit on one DVD. If each file does not have more than 2GB at 99%, I would use 99%.

ok I have dvd x copy, dvd clone etc...what else would i need to put my vcd's on dvd's?

is there any freeware that can do this?

thanks

I don't think there is any freeware to copy VCDs to DVD (or I just found none)
tmpgenc is free, but the mpeg2 encoding is limited.

There is a free demo version of DVDLab from their homesite.

This is my prefered method for VCD to DVD.

1. Copy mpeg files from S/VCD to HD.

2. Load mpeg files into DVD2AVI.

3. Convert .d2v using VFAPI converter.(be sure to rename the resulting .avi to whatever you named the .d2v - movie.avi etc)

4. Load the resulting .avi into CCE with the use of Avisynth.(needed in order to alter AR)

now the file is loaded into CCE go through the usual sequences.(hope you took notes from DVD2AVI )

6. Once CCE has done its thing load the resulting .mpv and audio file into TMPGEnc DVD Author.(if you dont have the proper audio format you will need to use BeSweet/AC3 Machine etc etc).

7. Burn - my favorite software being Stomp Record Now Max.

Hope this helps somewhat

Thanks for that Mr Translucent but unfortunately that method works for MPEG2 (SVCD) only. DVD2AVI will not load in a MPEG1 (VCD) file unfortunately.

If you wish to go down the DVD2AVI route all you need do is put the mpeg1/avseq.dat through a program named AVI to MPEG.This program has many good uses which include conversion of mpeg1 files to mpeg2,avi etc etc vice versa.

DVDLAB is a great program and will get the job done its just im use to using the DVD2AVI/CCE method.

dvdlab not let me do anything. . sound weird to u. but when i import the mpeg2 movie it appear a error msg " 11172-2 or ... videostream ... " and mpeg1 is just do nothing.