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The quick question: is there a way to put a VCD file (mpeg-1 video, 44100 Hz audio) on a DVDR that is playable on a settop DVD player, WITH OUT reprocessing the audio or video?
The situation/history:
I have been regularly recording a TV show (with an ATI A-i-W 128), and have many VCD's/VCD files (mpeg-1 @ 2Mbps & 44100 Hz audio). These play fine on my Sony settop DVD player.
I now have access to a DVD burner. I would like to start buring these mpeg's onto DVD-R WITH OUT quality loss and WITH OUT spending time on a recoding. Sonic MyDVD will transcode the files to burn them to a DVDR, but it changes the data rate (from 2Mbps to 8Mbps) and it takes a lot of time.
I understand that the DVD standard is 48000 Hz sampling rate for sound, but I am not interested in it beeing within standard, only playable on my machine. If the DVD player will play a VCD with 44100 Hz sound, is there a reason (other than an arbitrary standard) it will not play the same data in a VOB file? Is there an authoring program that will take my 44100 Hz files with out trying to recode it?
PS - One test I've tried was to record with basically the same settings, only changing (I think) from mpeg-1 @ 2 Mbps to mpeg-2 @ 3 Mbps. My ATI A-i-W 128 doesn't give an option for recording @ 48000, so it should have recorded at the best option it has: 16bit stereo 44100 Hz. I was able to burn the 60 second file to a DVD-RW and play it on my Sony settop DVD player. I didn't notice that Sonic MyDVD did transcoding on this file, but perhaps since it was only 60 seconds, I just didn't notice it.
If it didn't do any transcoding, I am assuming that all I need to do to the VCD files it just change the headers to say that they are mpeg-2 files instead of mpeg-1 files (mpeg-1 IS a subset of mpeg-2). Is there such a program that will do this, or will I need to write such a program myself?
Christopher Robin
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