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| Thread ID: 135867 | 2013-12-20 22:25:00 | VCD to DVD | bk T (215) | PC World Chat |
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| 1363190 | 2013-12-20 22:25:00 | I have got an old series of cartoon VCDs (total 20 CDs) for my daughter when she was very young; is it possible to combine them and burn to DVD for easy storage? | bk T (215) | ||
| 1363191 | 2013-12-20 23:00:00 | Yeah VCD's don't actually have the same kinds of copy protection a DVD disc does, so you can literally take 6x VCD's and just copy the files to your PC, then subsequently burn them on to a DVD for archival. It won't play in a standard DVD player, it's completely the wrong format etc, but it'll very happily play on a PC. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1363192 | 2013-12-21 01:06:00 | If you take the .DAT files off the CD and rename them .MPG you can play them more easily, pretty sure that works but try it on the hard drive before burning the files to confirm. Years ago I used to make Music Video VCDs and I've still got quite a collection but youtube made them a bit redundant. Anyway I'm sure from memory renaming the files works. VCD is just mpeg-1 format and although the .dat files may be missing some header information most players don't seem to care. To make a video DVD you'd have to re-author it and the .dat files may need to be extracted properly to work but given how cheap blank disks are I'd be tempted to try authoring using renamed .dat files and see how you go. I don't do this sort of thing any more so I don't have software installed to try it out or I'd confirm it myself. |
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| 1363193 | 2013-12-21 03:05:00 | Yeah if you wanna "convert" it into a proper DVD that plays on standalone players, that'll take a *lot* of time. Simply backing up the video files off the VCD though will allow them to be played on a PC :) And yeah they're pretty much just MPEG-1 video as dugimodo mentioned :) |
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