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I've tried this post before on the General Audio board with not much response. I am interested in any information or experience people have with VCD recorders. I am considering getting a CD recorder but am debating if a VCD recorder may not be a better idea - it would allow audio CD burning but also replace my VCR for recording TV shows etc.
While I am aware that the video quality of these recorders is, at best, VHS-like, I do not know anything about the audio quality of the units. There are a number of Asian brands offered via eBay - anyone know anything about these?
I have found info on the Terapin recorder on the web. Reviews are luke warm at best, and the unit itself would stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of my pieces, which I have put together both on a/v quality and on visual appearance esthetics.
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I personally have CD's full of MPEGs compressed to Divx 4.x. They are transferrable, easy to play back (just copy the codec to each cd in case the computer you're using doesn't have it). If you have a video capture/playback card, you're set. Just rip the source material and use software to compress to DIVX.
My friend got into making VCD's and found a tremendous amount of help from this site: www.vcdhelp.com
Hope this helps.
VideoCD CAN be recorded on plain old CD recorders with the right software. The quality sucks but is convenient compared to VHS
The Japanese love them because they can be viewed on PCs
The link below from Yahoo search result:
Turn your PC into Video Recording Station!
... How simple is VCD Recording? 1 - Capture with CinePlayer DVR. 2 –
“Burn” your VideoCD on a CD-R using NERO CD writer software. ...
http://www.convergent.com.sg/studioVCD.htm
EdM,Thanks. This is a new suggestion; others have told me just to burn both VCD's and CD's directly off the computer. Your idea offers the option of getting a high quality CD-recorder to primarily use for audio CD's and doing the video via the PC. I do have a TV card on my PC, so now I just need to figure out how/if I can record shows on VCD format via software programs such as you mention and then burn them into VCD's on the free-standing CD-R.
I use different search engines than yahoo - I will now try that as well - another reason to say thanks.
Only one downer in all this: the http://www.convergent.com.sg/studioVCD.htm
URL doesn't work. I tried the yahoo search and found it myself, and it is correct, yet I can't connect. Nevertheless, you have steered me towards a direction I was unaware of before.BigV
BigV,Just traveled down this road. I recently purchased a digital
camcorder, capture card and software for both editing and burning.
I made my first VCD over the weekend. I've had the stuff for two
weeks now and had to invest alot of time on the web and at the
controls of the camcorders and computer. I made a simple 30 second
VCD of my kid after all this time. Now that I have the process
down, (I hope) things get easier. A site which has been the
most useful thus far is vcdhelp.com. If I can be of any help,
I'm willin'. Maybe we can both learn something.Regards,
Joe T.
Thanks, Joe T. and Iguana ManGood site!
V
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