How do I convert home movies into video on CD?page up: CD-Recordable FAQnext page: 3-16-2] How do I create an SVCD?
(2004/09/05) This section assumes you already have the video captured on the hard drive of your computer. If you don’t know how to do that, read the previous section. The goal is to create a White Book VideoCD, which can be viewed on any VideoCD-compatible playback device. Most PCs and Macs have some amount of support, as do many DVD players, so even if you can’t find a dedicated VideoCD player or CD-i box you should be able to find a way to watch them. VideoCDs can only be read by CD-ROM drives capable of reading CD-ROM/XA discs. If your drive doesn’t claim to support PhotoCD, you’re probably out of luck, but this is rare except on very old hardware. Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (formerly ActiveMovie) and Apple’s Video Player can play movies off of a VideoCD. Depending on the software you have installed, you may get a player with a nice UI, or you may need to examine the disc manually and open the “.dat” files in the “mpegav” directory. Depending on the drivers you have installed,
