hi all,MY .AVI FILE IS CAPTURED WITH 25 FRAME/SEC ,CAPTURE FORMAT IS RGB 16 BIT,IMAGE SIZE 320X240 AND VOICE IS THE PCM 44100Hz(16 B]T STEREO ) FIRST QUESTION IS CAN I CONVERT TH]S AVI TO THE DIRECTLY TO THE .DAT FILE OR FIRST I MUST CONVERT TO MPEG FILE AND AFTER THAT I MUST CONVERT TO THE .DAT FILE ?WHICHONE IS TRUE ? HOW CAN I PREPARED VIDEO CD ? W]TH .MPEG FILE OR .DAT FILE ? WHEN I TRIED TO CREATE V]DEO CD TWO TYPE OF FILES WITH NERO 4.0.7.5 (WRITER IS RICOH MP7060A) CD COULD BORN AND VIDEO CD FILES STRUCTURE ARE CREATED BUT WHEN I PLAY THIS CD WITH MY SONY portable VIDEO CD Player model D-V8000 THIS MESSAGE COMING MMSYSTEM296 the file cannot be played on the specified MCI device.

Best Regards, YUKSEL YILMAZ Chief RF Engineer NETAS/NORTEL

-- yuksel yilmaz (yyilmaz40@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000

Answers

Ok,

You must encode your AVI file to MPEG-1 (I use TMPGEnc for this - make sure that the movie is encoded following strict White Book standards for Video CD). Your recording software (Nero) should then build your VCD given just the MPG movie as the input file.

You do not need to concern yourself with any .dat files whatsoever. After burning, your file will be playable on all VCD players or VCD capable DVD players.

Regards

Dean Phillips SIM Solutions

-- Dean (dean.phillips@4mymail.co.uk), January 31, 2003.