How do you burn MPEGs onto VCDs that you can play on DC/VCD

[BOYCINATOR]

I tried just burning the MPEGs plain onto a cd-r like you would with an MP3 disk but the DC (and my dvd/vcd/cd player) says its an unreadable format or whatever. Is there a special program needed or something? do you have to burn them as an image?

[Dr Zoidberg]

As long as the files are mpeg-1 you can burn them onto a CD with GypPlay & you can watch them on your Dreamcast.

Another option is to change them into DivX files & watch them with DCDivX.

[Schnapple]

Also, VideoCD (VCD)'s have a special format to them - the files have to be named a certian way and the directories have to be laid out a certian way - or else your VCD player (DVD player, DC VCD player) won't show them as VCD's. Nero can do this for you, as do some other CD Burning packages. Also, the MPEG-1 file has to be 352x240 for NTSC (or 352x288 for PAL) and 29.97 FPS (30 FPS for PAL) to play correctly. Hit the VideoCD FAQ for more info.

[Dr Zoidberg]

I didn't notice that he tried it on his DVD player as well, as Schnapple has said already, Nero is good for making VCD's or SVCD's. TMPGEnc is good for converting files to the VCD format.

[ZacMc]

You can't make a VCD that will play in your DC W/GypPLay and in your DVD player:( I've tried it.

-Zac