How do you burn an MPEG as a VCD?

I use Nero but it doesn\'t seem to work for me. Niether my computer, Laserdisc play or DVD will play it.

How do you do it?

Is this piracy or something?..i dont know..i know you have to use adaptec CD creator 4. The software you get with your cd - rw

I don´t know how it is done but I would learn it too

[nO-One]

ummm I may be wrong but isn\'t this a piracy thread,and haven\'t you been warned before?

How the hell is making an MPEG - something freely downloaded on the internet - into something you can view on TV using a VCD considered piracy?  We\'re talking about free media here.

This is somthing I can\'t stand about this forum - you always think someone is a pirate!

I want to download GAME VIDS to disc, so I can watch them full screen on the tv.

Man, you guys I wankers...

Thanks DolbyTone - I like ya!

Yeah, sometimes these folks can be a little too uptight.  I\'m all anti-piracy too, but puh-leeease on this one.

[videoholic]

Dolby beat me to it.  Get a grip people.  I think there is a huge battle as to who can get more Shizit on their nose from brown nosing the mods here.

[nO-One]

I\'m really not a very uptight anti-piracy guy myself,belive me when I tell you this,you haven\'t seen the stack of CD\'s sitting next to my monitor .As I said in my previus post "I may be wrong".
I just don\'t want ##RaCeR## to get all upset again about a thread that was closed because he wasn\'t specific about what he was burning.I like his posts about GT.3 and I don\'t want to see him leaving because people misunderstood.

Well, now that is over, can we get back to answering the topic?

First you have to make sure your mpeg is the right format.

The maximum bit rate (MBR) for MPEG files is 1,377,600 bits per second.
The MPEG video data stream has three possible formats:

·   NTSC
·   Film
·   PAL

The following table lists the picture size and picture rate for each format:

Format   Picture Size   Picture Rate
NTSC   352x240   29.97 Hz
Film   352x240   29.976 Hz
PAL   352x288   25 Hz
The maximum video stream bit rate varies. For tracks, the rate is 1151929.1 bits per second. For the segment area, the rate is limited by the maximum bit rate and the requirements of the Audio data stream. The video pack size is 2324 bytes.

MPEG Audio Parameters

Layer   2
Sampling Frequency   44.1 kHz
Bitrate:   
—for audio/video tracks   224KBits/sec
—for segment area ranges    0 to 384 kBits/sec
Mode:   
—stereo   
—Dual Channel   
—Intensity Stereo   
—Single Channel   only allowed for segment area
The audio pack size is 23304 bytes.

what all that borax means, is you need very specific mpeg types to make succesfull VCDs.  I will assume you have that done (in general, you make your mpeg in two parts, the sound, which has a lot of specific requirements, and the video, which is easier, then stream \'em together with xing).

Once you have a proper mpeg, you can simply burn it into normal vcd format - that\'ll play on your computer.  If you want to play VCDs in MOST dvd players and such (cause some don\'t support VCD at all), get adaptec easy cd creator, and use their VCD program, and burn a "one level" menu.  It takes a long time to figure out how to do it all properly, but their help is really, really detailed.  That\'s it.

Remember, when making your mpeg, it HAS to conform.  resolution/bitrate/picture rate/sampling frequency.  Any single thing wrong, and the burn won\'t work anywhere properly.

Nice explanation Fatal.  I use Nero myself and most of the options described above are set as the default.  I even think Nero asks you which region of the world you live in when installing it.  This alone should help Nero decide which settings to put as default.

Anyway, I just click VCD on the left upon starting Nero, leave the settings as is, name the VCD\'s volume label (ie- Dark Angel Episode #15), select the mpeg-1 I want to burn, then make the VCD.

Keep in mind that some DVD players can\'t decode MPEG-1.  Pioneer\'s do, as do most of the cheapo, Apex type players.  http://www.vcdhelper.com/dvdplayers.php is a start for finding players that play CDR and/or VCD, SVCD...