VCDs

[James Drabb]

On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 22:39, Austin Isler wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a program for converting avi or mpeg files into vcds?
> 
> Thanks,
> Austin

A VCD needs to be in a certain format.  I am in the USA so I make NTSC
format VCDs.

Here is what I do to make a mpeg in a format for VCD.

transcode -i MyFile.avi -V -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc \
	-F 1 -Z 352x240 -E 44100 -b 224 -o outFile

When that is done, you need to combine the audio and video

mplex -f 1 -o FinishedMpeg.mpg outFile.m1v outFile.mpa

You can now remove the temporary .m1v and .mpa files

rm test.m*

Once I have all the mpg file I want for the VCD, I just use vcdimager to
make the actual file to burn to CD:

vcdimager outFile.mpg outFile2.mpg

Basically just the vcdimager command followed by the mpg files you want
to have in the VCD.

The last step is to burn the videocd.cue file created with vcdimager. 
You use cdrdao to burn this image.  You might need to change the options
depending on your burner.  Here is the command that works for me:

cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --speed 8 --eject \
	--driver generic-mmc videocd.cue

Jim Drabb
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