Hello Ian, On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:47:49PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > > Sorry, I can't really answer your question, but do you mean DVD player > rather than CD player? (I've never heard of a CD player playing video) > Well, I meant VCD player, sorry for the confusion. It's an old vcd player and runs any run of the mill vcd, but I haven't burnt a vcd before and don't know how to go about it. The movie 'A Fist Full Of Dollars' is Xvid avi format. I don't know if it's the right format for the vcd player, also if I have to convert it to mpeg which binary should I use. > AFAIK most new DVD players can read CDs to play mp3s from them, and some > can do avi-xvid but I think it's rare and you'd have to check the specs. > Why not use a CD-RW and try it out? > VCD and SVCD are mpeg based formats which use CDs rather than DVDs > (lower quality) and might be more widely compatible, but I've only > tried once and couldn't get it working. > > Transcode is one tool for doing format conversion, > <http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode>. > > dvd::rip <http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/> has features for burning > video to cd (including making VCD and SVCDs), and reading its > logs for encoding and decoding is a good way to learn to use > transcode. > > I think you can get both from any of Dag, FreshRPMS and ATRPMS. > I am browsing the links you posted and they look promising:) Thanks for the reply. -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- Rainy days and automatic weapons always get me down. -- ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795
