dvd on cdr

[Nilbog]

Well...I try not to litter the cave with my stupid life questions, so I'll start posting them in this forum....

so here it is...
I hear you can burn videos on a regular cdr that you can play in a dvd player. (I.E. burn dvd's). Of course, you won't get 2 hours or whatever...but you should be able to get 15 or 20 minutes, right?

So can you do that? what software do you need? how much time do you get?

-Nilbog

[ola]

You cannot burn DVD's in a CD-R burner. However, some (all?) DVD players may be able to read CD-R so you can burn as much as fits of whatever video format (MPEG-2?) that DVD players use and play that in your DVD player.

/Ola

[kristian]

screw mpeg2, go mpeg4 with divx...http://divx.ctw.cc/

[Jon X]

Yeah, that mpeg4 rocks. You can then put most whole DVD movies onto CD-R. Here's an article about it with links to all the tools you'll need: http://www6.tomshardware.com/video/00q3/000913/.

You don't even need a DVD player to play the things, just play them off a computer CDrom drive where you have the divx codec installed.

That's not supposed to translate to a smiley,but I can't make it not do that... imagine it the old time sideways smiley way, and that's the name of the codec.

[Nilbog]

So let's say I put together a little video for my friends. Then I can burn it to a cd in mpeg-4 format, and they can pop it into their dvd players and watch it? And I can still get a couple hours of video?

that sounds too good to be true, which probably means I'm missing something...Do I have to sell my soul?

-Nilbog

[kristian]

you odnt have to sell your soul, but its not hours of video you will get... i think its like a Mb per 30 seconds of full screen high res video.

[Jon X]

They can watch on their CDRom, they don't even need a dvd in the computer to view it. They could copy the thing to the hard drive even, like a regular avi or mpg file. You have to have the right codec in order to decompress the thing, which no stand alone DVD player has to my knowledge right now. If anyone knows of one, please post what it is. You also need a muscular computer, it takes a lot of horsepower to smoothly decompress what is 1/12th the size of the original. You can fit around 110 minutes on an 80 minute CD, 700MB at a good data rate and resolution. You could watch it full screen and it would look good at those specs. If you have a video card with TV out and ran a mpeg-4 of this quality to TV, I think it would look good enough that the casual viewer wouldn't even notice it wasn't a dvd unless you pointed it out to them.

Wouldn't a rate of 1 MB per 30sec, or 1 minute of video for every 2MB of storage space, mean that in 700MB you could put 350 minutes, which is almost 6 hours? I think the rate I was mentioning above would be equal to a little less than 10 seconds for every MB. Of course I could be totaly thinking of the rate you mentioned the wrong way and miss what you were saying.

[kristian]

i shouldnt pst in the morning my eyes are all wonky. ummm yea, my friend is hosting a little site off his computer if any of you have hardcore connections DSL ethernet etc, he has a couple movies 600~700Mb on there Being John Malkocich(sp?) and some oher. email me and ill give you the address, you can test the quality.

[2lim]

I can answer part of that, to play in a dvd player the file on your cd-r has to be .mpeg

[kristian]

could you point to ANY dvd palyers that play mpeg4? didnt think so... but if you had video out on your graphicscard you could do it... and its not that bad wathincg video on my 19 inch flatscreen sony Drooooooooooooooool...