Re: dvd::rip : what codecs to make a CD viewable on Windows too?

Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 15:39 schrieb Pieter Hulshoff:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:25:58PM +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> > I have tried to install tovid. I haven't found it on packman, but there
> > was a rpm for my openSuse 10.0 at rpm.pbone.net which I installed. I
> > couldn't find the gui version (can't locate tovidgui.py on my system???),
> > so I tried the command line version. All I got then was a .mpg-file,
> > slightly smaller than the avi, but Windows still can't play it.
>
> Did you burn that file as a video CD in K3B or did you burn it as a file? I
> am disappointed that it wouldn't be able to play a simple MPEG file, but
> VCD is a different format, which if I recall correctly K3B should be able
> to generate based on the correct MPEG file.
>
Aha...

I burned it to CD as a file, I could play the mpg on Linux but not on W.

After reading your hint, I told K3B to make a Video-CD from this mpg - and 
hey: it works :-))

On Windows 98 I had to use a "powerDVD"-Demo-Version  to look at the video-CD, 
but anyway: now I have a CD that can be viewed even on Windows. Wow.

(I really wonder about W.: how can it be impossible to show a mpeg-file and 
then, the same file but as video-cd can be played... Well, seems to be the 
Mocrosoft way to drive people crazy. But that's another story :-)

Thanks a lot!

Daniel

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