How do I burn the ripped folders from a VCD to a working VCD?

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radioman_

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Basically I DL'd movie parts that when unrared turned out to be the ripped folders off of the actual VCD - MPEGAV, SEGMENT, VCD folders, etc. Total size is 813 MBs. What's the best way to turn this into an image file or whatever I need to burn it onto a CD-R so that it plays as a VCD? I searched in this forum but I might be using the wrong terms or whatever as none of the results were of help. Thanks for your patience.
 
daveml

daveml

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use nero or your favorite burning application to make an iso.
Just drag the folders into the compilation and burn.
 
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radioman_

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I must have failed to explain this clearly. I only have a data file that consists of VCD folders, apparently ripped as *data* directly from a VCD. This is not a VCD image file at all. I can't burn it as a data file even with overburning (way too big) and Nero doesn't see the folder or its contents as a VCD so no luck there. What I'm trying to do is turn a data folder that was *once* a VCD CD back into a VCD image file for burning as a VCD. Is that even possible? Another solution possibly?: can I convert the 815 MB .dat file back into a .mpg and start from scratch? The .dat file plays fine in file mode, so no problems there.
 
daveml

daveml

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either use isobuster and select filter only m2f2frames or use vcdeasy it has a dat to mpeg converter.
 
ipdave

ipdave

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Using Nero, should be able to create a new VCD, drag and drop the .DAT file into it.

VCDs fit about a 814mB mpg/dat because they have no error checking to speak of, and the overhead normally lost in a 700mB Data CD is now available, hence the 814mb without overburning.
 
daveml

daveml

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yep. but u need to extract the mpeg first or things could turn out weird.
I have just renamed the dat, in the past, and burned it but that is not the correct way to do it
 
Nunyobiznes

Nunyobiznes

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Drag the .DAT file from the mpegav folder over and nero will check it to make sure it is compliant. I have done this many times with traded movies that I couldn't copy for one reason or another. ipdave is correct.

daveml-how do you extract the mpeg file? I've never done that and it might come in handy.
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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Yes, lots of people drag the DAT file into Nero and burn and think all is well. As daveml said, all sorts of weird things can happen by doing that, it may be simple and quick but its not the right way to do to get a fully functional & no problem VCD.

You should ALWAYS turn a DAT file into a proper MPG file and then author properly in Nero or VCDEasy. Ther are many tools that can change a DAT to MPG like VCDGear (_www.vcdgear.com) or VCDEasy (_www.vcdeasy.org). The later can even burn the MPG out for you with Chapters, etc if you wish also with the end result better than the original.
 
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