Today is VCD fun! So what is VCD? It's something that the Chinese have invented as a substitute to DVD. Why is it so interesting? You can burn your movies on a regular CD-ROM and watch them on your DVD player.
So, let's get the tool:
apt-get install vcdtools
I used an MPEG1 movie of dimension 384x288 with a bitrate of 1152
KBit/sec and an audiostream with a sample rate of 44100 Hz, stereo and
a bitrate of 224 KBit/sec. Let's call this file movie.mpg.
Next I create the VCD file with the following command:
mkvcdfs movie.mpg
Next you will need to burn the file with cdrdao. I had a bit of a
headache here because the version that comes with Debian testing
doesn't yet support the new IDE interface that comes with Linux 2.6. I
grabbed and manually installed version 1.1.7-5 in unstable and it
works fine.
Now i am blanking my CD-RW:
cdrdao blank --save --driver generic-mmc --device /dev/hdb
Note that adding the --save parameter will save the options in a file
called .cdrdao in your home directory. In effect, you don't need to
specify the driver and the device on the command line.
Next I burn my movie:
cdrdao write vcd.toc
I pop that CD in my DVD player and the movie looks great. I am pleased!
I if use a movie encoded in NTSC, it plays back in black and white and I am not sure why