Prodigy 449mb DVD single, is it possible to..

[Strahlen]

The Prodigy have a DVD single in the shops in the UK/Ireland..

The space used on the DVD is listed at 449mb, is it possible to copy this to a CD and have it play in a Standalone DVD player.. no particular love for the Prodigy, just a task to master and see how things go..

Baby's Got a Temper
XLS145DVD

1-Baby's Got A Temper
2-A Day At Work

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[shadoe_phantom]

yes. Just use the DVD to VCD tutorial found here.
Basically you will rip the DVD to HDD with smart ripper or similar app & then encode it with software of you choice (though dvd2avi then tmpgenc is probs best choice).
Anyhow, have a look at the DVD to VCD tutorial & all will be good (unless you prefer an SVCD *but either way you have to make sure your standalone DVD player supports VCD or SVCD playback).
Good luck

 

[ChickenMan]

As above, but you could also use Nero to do a DVD to CDR direct copy. This will make a miniDVD, as they are called. Naturally you will need a DVD reader in your PC.

The problem is very few DVD Players can playback miniDVD's, okay on the PC though. For best I would convert to SVCD (follow the Tutorial) and you will be able to play on most DVD players then and will still be 1 CD also.

 

[Strahlen]

Thanks for your replies, I've been ripping and encoding DVD's a few weeks now, thanks to some fine tutorials on this forum and at vcdhelp..

Shadoe, I was angling more towards Chickenman's idea, a change of medium (DVD to CD) but not of the format, I just thought that because the amount of data was less than a CD, some sort of trickery could be performed in just dumping the files (keeping the file layout) onto the CD and duping a Standalone into playing it..

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[ChickenMan]

As I said, a direct DVD to CD 1:1 could probably be done but might not play on your DVD Player. Do a test burnt to a CDRW first.

Alternatetivly, rip the WHOLE DVD to your HD with Smart Ripper and then burn these back to a CDR with Nero. SmartRipper can strip out the Macrovision and Region coding as well. Just make sure you the DVD contents have been ripped to the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders on your HD the same as they are on the DVD.