Yes, strange thread title, but I'm in desperate need of assistance. I recently came upon a favorite movie of mine, the original hellraiser, and its a cool 682mb in .avi format. When I went into nero 7 ultra edition to burn it to a vcd(I don't have a dvd-r)It came up as 824 mb, and as we all know, cd-r's are 700mb. Herein lies the problem, I love this movie and want to watch it terribly badly without having to sit in front of this dismal and small computer screen. How oh how can I either burn it in KVCD, or can I convert the file without distorting the audio/video synch? Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
it came up that size cause from my recent experience, if you add an avi file to a vcd project, the file will be converted to vcd complient format (MPG file) which takes a considerably larger file size, this is your problem i think. you would have to author it to split over two disks if you want a vcd, or try using TMPGEnc with kvcd templates, and it will be playable in dvd player and fit on only 1 cd
Thanks for the reply Phantom, so this TMPG, I can burn the whole thing onto one disc and it won't distort the codecs to where it's like a dubbed japanese movie?
oh yeah and since you have to buy it, I downloaded the one from download.com, and I was wondering if it would leave a watermark or anything annoying like that
no no watermark for the MPEG1 encoding. you need to find KVCD templates though. for nero: to cut the avi file you can use the nero vision software. i am pretty sure you can use Virtual Dub. here is a tut for it: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/cut_avi_with_virtualdub.cfm then just load one of the splits into the nero project and that should be fine. for optimal results and relatively better quality i recommend splitting the AVI file in half of equal size, that way the same amount of movie is on each disc with a better bit rate.
