DISCLAIMER: this thread is strictly to settle a 5 cent bet i made with my mom and to maybe make home DVDs of my 2-year-old niece.
can one burn DVDs using a CD rewritable? or do i need some special files compressing program? how can a movie which is much longer and consists of much more information than music fit on the same size disc as a CD? and if i do succeed at burning a DVD via my computer, will it play on a regular DVD player, or stricly on the computer?
If you want to burn a DVD, you’ll need a DVD burner, not CD burner.
Or are you asking if you can burn a movie to a CD and have it play in a DVD player? If so, the answer is “yes”, but I’ll leave it to someone more versed in such matters to tell you how (mainly because I’m pressed for time right now, and I’m not familiar enough with it to answer without a lot of googling).
You’ll need a DVD burner to burn DVD’s.
You CAN put video on a Video CD which will play in most DVD players.
I belive Video CD uses mpg1 format so you’ll fit less at lower resolutions and at lower quality than mpg2 DVD format.
Super VCD uses mpg2 format but I don’t think you can fit more than 30 minutes of video or so in one CD.
Look into DVD help. Check into how to burn a VCD or (much better) SVCD onto a CD.
You may have to convert your source video into the right format. This can be extremely time consuming.
VCDs and SVCDs encode the error corrections system into the stream rather than as sep. blocks like on an audio CD. Hence they can hold over 800MBs of “data” but a good size chunk of that is error correction bits. TNSTAAFL.
I am extremely happy with the SVCDs I make. I don’t rent or buy DVDs for the most part, this is the only reason I have a DVD player.
so, why can’t i burn DVDs if my computer can read them? are they not burned the same way as a CD or is it just because of format conflicts?
so, why can’t i burn DVDs if my computer can read them? are they not burned the same way as a CD or is it just because of format conflicts?
A DVD burner uses different technology to burn a DVD than the CD burner uses for the CD. The laser and the depths of the burn are different. The disks may look the same but they aren`t.
dvd’s use smaller marks in the disk to store data. the laser to burn and read a disk must be smaller to match these smaller marks in a dvd. i believe it takes 40 watts to burn and 5 watts to read for the laser what you have is a dvd-rw plus dvd-rom drive. the laser in dvd mode is not powerfull enough to write, only to read.
so, do these programs on Google really work? how? and would the gov’t come after me if i dowloaded/bought one?
Sure they work.
And they do exactly what they claim to do: Copy a DVD movie to a CD.
NOT a DVD to a DVD.
What they do is they rip the movie from the DVD into your hardrive, then it converts the format of the movie either to VCD mpg1 or an AVI format (Divx for example) which you can then burn to a CD.
If it is done in an AVI format, you can only watch the movie on your computer.