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I need to burn a few SVCDs, and I don't know of any software that can do it. Does anyone have any recommendations?

All you need is a program that can burn image files. Alcohol 120% and Nero can do this very well.

JLTucker wrote:All you need is a program that can burn image files. Alcohol 120% and Nero can do this very well.

Alcohol 120% can make AVIs into SVCDs?

Dominus Atheos wrote:I need to burn a few SVCDs, and I don't know of any software that can do it. Does anyone have any recommendations?

You know, it really does help to actually specify the OS you're using if you want software recommendations. . . .

Assuming you're using Windows and want freeware, use TMPGEnc to make the MPEG files and VCDEasy to make the actual VCD or SVCD. I used to have an old page on my website with tips on doing this. I dumped it in purgatory and took it off the main index a while ago because I figured that VCD and SVCD were obsolete, but you can still see it at http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/OldPa ... Video.html (note that the format is messed up, the graphics are missing, and despite the footer, it is not actually XHTML compliant).

Dominus Atheos wrote:Alcohol 120% can make AVIs into SVCDs?

Damn. No. Sorry. Nero can, though. I would go with Wong's suggestion since it is freeware.

General Zod wrote:

Dominus Atheos wrote:I need to burn a few SVCDs, and I don't know of any software that can do it. Does anyone have any recommendations?

You know, it really does help to actually specify the OS you're using if you want software recommendations. . . .

Windows or Linux.

I downloaded Sicko, (Not illegal) and want to show it to my parents, and don't have a DVD burner, so I thought I'd burn it to an SVCD. I guess I'll go with Wong's suggestion.

Dominus Atheos wrote:I downloaded Sicko, (Not illegal) and want to show it to my parents, and don't have a DVD burner, so I thought I'd burn it to an SVCD. I guess I'll go with Wong's suggestion.

That didn't work very well. The 2 hour video file is too large for the 800mb CD. What should I do?

Dominus Atheos wrote:

Dominus Atheos wrote:I downloaded Sicko, (Not illegal) and want to show it to my parents, and don't have a DVD burner, so I thought I'd burn it to an SVCD. I guess I'll go with Wong's suggestion.

That didn't work very well. The 2 hour video file is too large for the 800mb CD. What should I do?

In the old days, people used to split a movie into two 1-hour pieces. If you have the old free versions of TMPGEnc and VCDEasy, it should be pretty easy to do. I know a disc swap is inconvenient, but we're talking about a pretty limited format here.

Darth Wong wrote:

Dominus Atheos wrote:

Dominus Atheos wrote:I downloaded Sicko, (Not illegal) and want to show it to my parents, and don't have a DVD burner, so I thought I'd burn it to an SVCD. I guess I'll go with Wong's suggestion.

That didn't work very well. The 2 hour video file is too large for the 800mb CD. What should I do?

In the old days, people used to split a movie into two 1-hour pieces. If you have the old free versions of TMPGEnc and VCDEasy, it should be pretty easy to do. I know a disc swap is inconvenient, but we're talking about a pretty limited format here.

Is that possible? TMPGEnc won't split files, and I didn't want to have my computer's processor tied up for three hours if it was going to spit out a file that I couldn't even use.