Burning MPEG to VCD

[bulldawg]

This may not be the right forum for my question, if not, I'm sorry. But, here we go. I ripped the info off of one of my dvd's and have it encoded to mpeg. Seems that I should use the VCD option in NERO. But, at the end of the burn, there is no mpeg file, just assorted files and a .dat file in one of the folders. The cd will not autostart either. I finally got Media Player to play the file today. Should there be a mpeg file on the cd and should it autorun when I put it in the pioneer dvd or Plextor cdrw?

Thanks.

 

[andalas]

nope the mpeg file will become .dat in the cd.
I don't think windows will autoplay vcd unless you install other software
than windows media player (ie: powerdvd). Another software that will autoplay vcd that I know is ATI Multimedia Player.

If you want to run vcd manually you can run those .dat file under windows media player.

 

[mjquilly]

<< Should there be a mpeg file on the cd >>


No. The video data is stored on the VCD w/ the extension .dat



<< and should it autorun when I put it in the pioneer dvd or Plextor cdrw? >>


No, unless you have some 3rd party software that will auto play VCDs/DVDs. (I think PowerDVD does this if you configure it to.)

 

[bulldawg]

Well, cool. Because I have PowerDVD installed. Now to go find that setting. Thanks.

 

[Toro 45]

The same thing happened to me on my first attempt,I got 4 folders on the disk,one was an mpeg folder with the clip in it.

Seems like it should autostart but no luck on mine either,so a bump for you &amp; hopefully someone will have an answer for both of us.
Toro

 

[gopunk]

<< The same thing happened to me on my first attempt,I got 4 folders on the disk,one was an mpeg folder with the clip in it.

Seems like it should autostart but no luck on mine either,so a bump for you &amp; hopefully someone will have an answer for both of us.
Toro >>


read the above posts...

 

[bulldawg]

The setting in PowerDVD will not autoplay a VCD for me. Oh well, at least I can play it.